Psychoanalyst Meets Helene and Wolfgang Beltracchi: Artist Couple Meets Jeannette Fischer

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Jeannette Fischer

Psychoanalyst Meets Helene and Wolfgang Beltracchi

Artist Couple Meets Jeannette Fischer

Jeannette Fischer

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English

Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
01 July 2022

Forgery, falsification & theft of artworks; Individual artists, art monographs; Biography: arts & entertainment; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)

"Wolfgang Beltracchi is a phenomenon of the international art world. His name is inextricably entwined with one of the greatest upheavals in the global art market. Emulating numerous world-famous artists, he developed and painted new paintings, continued their narrations and biography, and concluded them with a forged signature. His wife Helene Beltracchi then smuggled them onto the art market. Many experts were deceived by Beltracchi's stupendous skill and auctioneers cast many doubts aside in the interests of insatiable market demand, selling the paintings as authentic works by the purported artists.

Reading the artistic handwriting of a painting requires an exceptional willingness and ability to be able to empathise and identify with the artist, until you ""can feel what the other feels"" (Wolfgang Beltracchi). Through extensive discussions with the painter and his wife, the psychoanalyst Jeannette Fischer explored this capability that is so pronounced for Beltracchi. In her new book, she places this in relation to the disappearance of Beltracchi's own signature. As with her previous highly successful book about the performance artist Marina Abramovic, Jeannette Fischer has created an exceptionally insightful portrait of a fascinating artist personality.

AUTHOR: Jeannette Fischer has been practicing for more than 30 years as a Freudian psychoanalyst in Zurich, with a special focus on the topics of violence, power, and powerlessness. She has also curated exhibitions on these topics and produced two film documentaries.

SELLING POINTS: .

The first book from a psychoanalytical perspective about Wolfgang Beltracchi, painter and legendary art forger .

Beltracchi is a unique phenomenon of the international art world and one of its most notorious names .

Psychoanalyst Jeannette Fischer once again presents an exceptionally insightful portrait of a fascinating artist personality .

Jeannette Fischer's previous book, Psychoanalyst meets Marina Abramovic, is an ongoing sales success since its release in spring 2019

20 colour illustrations"

By: Jeannette Fischer
Imprint: Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 165mm, Width: 115mm,
Weight: 280g
ISBN: 9783039420711
ISBN 10: 3039420712
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 01 July 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Jeannette Fischer has been practising for more than 30 years as a Freudian psychoanalyst in Zurich, with a special focus on the topics of violence, power, and powerlessness. She has also curated exhibitions on these topics and produced two film documentaries.

Reviews for Psychoanalyst Meets Helene and Wolfgang Beltracchi: Artist Couple Meets Jeannette Fischer

"""The story of how their operation worked has been exhaustively detailed in news reports, a documentary and the couple's 2011 trial. But in a recently published book, psychoanalyst Jeannette Fischer digs into the why. Through a series of in-depth conversations, carried out over coffee and wine at the pair's studio in Switzerland following their release from prison, she explores their motives, artistic processes and family histories."" - CNN"