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Geert Jan Jansen
Geert Jan Jansen (born 1943) is a Dutch painter and art forger, who was arrested in 1994.
Geert Jan Jansen was born in Waalre in the Netherlands. His engineer father was fond of art and Jansen became an art student. He befriended a US art dealer, Michel Podulke, who ran a gallery called "Mokum" in Amsterdam.
Later, Jansen opened his own galleries, "Jacob" and "Raam", but was not particularly successful. When his business went badly
- "Master Forger Geert Jan Jansen on trial in France"
- Geertjanjansen.nl - " The official website of Geert Jan Jansen
- confiscated by German police