Swiss-Based Gallery, Artvera’s Gallery, Helps Crack Artwork Forgery Ring in Germany

GENEVA.- The largest scandal involving an artwork forgery ring in Germany just broke and has made front-page news in German media for the past few weeks. Forgers belonging to the same family managed to sell over 20 forged artworks from the so-called “Jägers Collection, ”which probably never existed, for a total sum estimated between 30 and 80 million Euros. They have been jailed since 27 August 2010 in Germany . The effort was spearheaded by the Swiss-based Artvera’s Gallery and the law firm K&L Gates in Berlin , hired in 2006 to represent one of the gallery’s clients who had been cheated in buying a fake Campendonk at an auction. Thanks to evidence produced by Artvera’s, in collaboration with respected experts such as Aya Soika (expert and author of the annotated Pechstein catalogue) and Ralph Jentsch (an expert on George Grosz

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