Elmyr de Hory

Born 16 April 1906 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Died 11 December 1976 (aged 70)

Elmyr de Hory (1905 – December 11, 1976) was a Hungarian-born painter and art forger who claimed to have sold over a thousand forgeries to reputable art galleries all over the world. His forgeries garnered much celebrity from a Clifford Irving book, Fake!, and from F for Fake (1974), a documentary essay film by Orson Welles.