# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-beltracchi
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:08:34.818Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-beltracchi"
name: "Wolfgang Beltracchi"
slug: "wolfgang-beltracchi"
description: "Wolfgang Beltracchi is a German former art forger and visual artist who has admitted to forging hundreds of paintings in an international art scam netting millions of euros. Beltracchi, together with his wife Helene, sold forgeries of alleged works by famous artists, including Max Ernst, Heinrich Campendonk, Fernand Léger, and Kees van Dongen. Though he was found guilty for forging 14 works of art that sold for a combined $45m (£28.6m), he claims to have faked \"about 50\" artists. The total estimated profits Beltracchi made from his forgeries surpasses $100m."
tagline: "German art forger (born 1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wolfgang_Beltracchi_(2024)_III.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1951-02-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.21
  momentum:             18.59333390602182
  historical:           12.769664
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5970913/"
    handle:    "nm5970913"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.beltracchi-art.com"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ولفجانج بيلتراكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wolfgang Beltracchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Beltracchi"
    title: "Wolfgang Beltracchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Beltracchi"
    title: "Wolfgang Beltracchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Beltracchi"
    title: "Wolfgang Beltracchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Beltracchi"
    title: "Wolfgang Beltracchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%92_%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%A7%D7%99"
    title: "וולפגנג בלטראקי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A9%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95%E3%82%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Beltracchi"
    title: "Wolfgang Beltracchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Beltracchi"
    title: "Wolfgang Beltracchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B8%2C_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wolfgang Beltracchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98085"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1294377"
    title: "Wolfgang Beltracchi"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump