New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 27, 1930, Page 13

i AT mazing ‘ew amera ye mashed [ Interesting Revelations Aol (= ey of the Brush Strokes of ’ Famous Old Masters When Magnified One Million Times. A\ Above Is a Mircophotograph of Part of the Surface of a Famous Old Painting. On the Original, the Surface Included 4 in This Photo Was Approximately the 7 3 . 4 4 LY i 4 Answer Is Probably Size of the Head of a Pin. The P 3 5 v “No,” for a Rotifer is Two Black Marks Were Made by g s % ; g Oie afitha Siss Two Hairs of the Artist’s Brus| 1 2 ¢ ? Did You Ever Before See a Rotifer? The b 4 ssnin Living Thir However, Here Is Mr USt how much money has been painlessly extracted from wealthy €onno! urs of art by glib- tongued dealers in fake pai 5 may never be computed. Perhaps less than a hundred million dollars. But v This Fragment of considering the amounts by w! s R ; g Moss. He Could Do So ve been d 5 2 6 %, Without Knowinz In. for It I Here ifer, Vizorously T L Being Were to Swailow been detect te to place ,,,‘“4‘3_ g g v & Mugnified a Million “A " perfect £ money,” ¥ ; 1 Times—and Mr those of the fake pain g % £ have often confident trade. “One fair sale establ life,” these nefarious cr foreign air and their polished a tured manner have declared truth- fully. In view of these indicators of non- chalance and confidence in their ability to “beat the game,” how it mu have disturbed them to read, a v weeks ago, about the findings of a con- ference which met at Rome, y! Reports of the conference were like the detonation of a double-barrelled gun, fired by a group of scientists cager at all costs to make future art frauds i Rotifer Is Too, I AN, I8 A I SN Monsiear Celleriert. Director of the “Institut Pinacologique™ Is Shown Behind His Bench in the New Laborators at the Louvre for Scientifically Examining Paintings and for Proving the Authenticity of Genuine Oid Masters and the Falseness of Fakes. ARG NS LRI AR08 s Z DA mwm of Professor Koegel, Karlsruhe, Germany. Professor Koegel suggested that modern painters should apply some distinguishing mark to paintings, which, being impo: reproduce, would render future generations to reco; paintings beyond any pos doubt. He discussed the fea finger prints, pressed into paint on & ; suggestion X (@ NI ity o 2% { : { § it %. reproduce as m Tov e o ssary to use Tind guishing mark t s bty e i The next sugge £ Professor b Y Koegel impressed ! dicice He o on the canvas a central internatic bureau which wou founded to p: paintings. T! of steel cable would presen nute adaptations that it would be R T The Two Snowflake-like Surfaces Above illustrate How Scientists Have Succeeded Distinguishing Between Masterpieces and Their e Imitations. The Upper, 2 = 2ppesin a Brush Stroke ¢ TEHeRTY e : Rod Lo mung Magnified & Million . 3 : - e WL Asc Dcen Times, Is the Steady. . d . i maloudher gor Fven Work of Rubens. ! The Tlower. Al a Million Times Magnified. Is the Brush- Stroke. of an Imitator, Betraying Nervousness and Lack of Confidence. AR e 2 mw/,wmw “Old Master™ Painting, Supposed to Have Been the Work of the Famous Corregio a d at $1.000.000. Now It Is Declared to Be Gnly an Imitation. Worth in the Vicinity of Discovers, It Is Said, Was Made by Means of New Scientific Devices—by E. Faust Squadrilli, Expert an OId Paint The Canvis, Shown Here With Mr. and Mes. Hazleton and Their Daughter and Friends. Including Mr. Squadrilli, Is Guarded by a Heavy Chain When the Cover Is Closed. s the orld. nasterpieces, are fooled even the This Apparatus Is the Invention of the Famed Scientist, Robert Maurer of Vienna. It Generates What Dr. Maurer Terms OUB Rays, Which Penetrate the Surface. of a Painting, and, Dr. Maurer Claims. Lead to the Detection Art Frauds by Readily Revealing Faulis in Technique Never Found in Genuine Works of Art.