Unforgeable.
We present to you the first ever Digital Fine Art Collection by the most prolific art forger of the 20th century, Wolfgang Beltracchi.
The artist takes you on a journey through the history of art by recreating Leonardo da Vinci’s alleged Salvator Mundi, channelling the styles of seven masters including Picasso, Van Gogh, Da Vinci, and more…
"The Greats” is divided into over 30 individual series based on 7 different eras in art history. The collections consist of a total of 2,608 original digital artworks.
"The creation of digital art offers an almost unlimited scope to develop an artistic idea and to live it out in full."
- Wolfgang Beltracchi (2021)
The most controversial artist in the world, Wolfgang Beltracchi, is recreating the most controversial painting in the world, “Salvator Mundi” in the styles of seven different old masters.
The "Salvator Mundi" is the most expensive painting ever sold. It was sold to Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohammed bin Salman for $450 million on 15 November 2017 by Christie’s in New York.
I Am Beltracchi
Wolfgang Beltracchi (*1951) is a German artist and art forger, and undoubtedly one of the most exceptionally skilled painters in the world. He has admitted to forging hundreds of paintings by renowned artists including the likes of Heinrich Campendonk, Fernand Léger, and Max Ernst. His forgeries were always based on works known but never before seen. He outsmarted the most powerful players in the international art world for more than 40 years.
Explore the whole storyThe traditional art elite wants to bury Beltracchi
Since his arrest in 2010, the art establishment has been working tirelessly to make his artworks inaccessible to the public. Museums, galleries and auction houses alike have barred Beltracchi from exhibiting and selling his art. As an ordinary person, it is near impossible to obtain an original Beltracchi. It is in the art establishment’s utmost interest to maintain the status quo, and to continue to dictate what is and what isn’t art.
This is why we utilize the Internet and the Ethereum blockchain to give the world unrestricted access to one of the last living old masters of our time.
Why digital art?
The fine art collectible tokens are carefully crafted using a blend of old painting mastery and modern technology to create an artwork that captures the ethos of our time. Traditionally, art is what you see. Using the blockchain, art extends far beyond what you simply see on the canvas, but it embodies the user experience, the sales mechanism, and the transparent data of each movement of the pieces.
Art Concept
We are bringing the most famous art forger in the world into the unforgeable world of digital art. And he is going to do what he does best: use his encyclopaedia of art knowledge, an unrivalled depth in the understanding of painting techniques, and a meticulous execution to create masterpieces that could have been created by the hands of the old masters themselves.
There are a total of 30+ series in “The Greats” collection, each corresponding to a different era or style in art history. The information of the series is recorded in the metadata.
Wolfgang Beltracchi is recreating the “Salvator Mundi” in the style of 7 different old masters.
All components of each artwork are solely created by Beltracchi using the same techniques as used by the old masters. In addition, he makes use of modern forms of art such as photography and graphic design to digitally assemble the different components into new creations reflecting the capabilities of today’s art world. The results are 2,608 completely original digital Beltracchi artworks.