ART EXPERT CHARGED
FRAUDS DISCOVERED. Professor Alois Hauser, a noted German cxpert on paintings, who was formerly picture-restorer of the Prussian State Galleries, was accused last year of giving false "expert" information in return for payznent. It is now allegcd that he did so in hundreds of cases. Paintings of sznall value were, it is said, certified by hizzi as woi'ks of Rembrandt, Rubens, Hals, or Vandyck, and art dealers made a.n enorznous profit on thezn and paid him coznparatively little. A number of German art dealers have been ;a.rrested in connection with the affair. Professor Hauser is stated to have restored paintings for the Tate Gallery, London, and other national collections.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 643, 22 September 1933, Page 3
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112ART EXPERT CHARGED Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 643, 22 September 1933, Page 3
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