The Düsseldorf art consultant Helge Achenbach is about six years in prison been convicted. In the process of fraud to wealthy clients, the district court Essen said the 62-year-olds on Monday guilty
Champagne at Art Basel, roaring in Manhattan and Miami.: If “Helge” threw a party, then the celebrities came willingly. Whether artists, gallery owners, museum staff or manager – the dazzling and globally networked art consultant Helge Achenbach brought together art and money
With millionaires and billionaires the buddy-like puppet masters was to you and you.. The steeper the crash was Achenbach from the elitist art world in the dock in the district court food. On Monday, the judge sentenced him to six years in prison.
prosecution had seven years’ imprisonment required
Achenbach had confessed to the 2012 deceased Aldi’s heirs Berthold Albrecht and the pharmaceutical entrepreneur Christian Boehringer to have cheated. The once-respected expert had wealthy clients own words computes hidden surcharges for art sales and it also falsified invoices.
The prosecution had demanded seven years imprisonment for since June 2014 sitting on remand Achenbach. The defense had pleaded a much lower sentence.
Achenbach’s co-defendant, former business partner Stefan H. was given a suspended sentence.
Achenbach apologized for “impossible” action
On June 10, 2014 had been passed Achenbach glamorous life. He came back from Brazil, where he had finished the World Cup base of the German national team with art. At Dusseldorf Airport, he was arrested.
The month-long trial detention and the process have the once jovial art consultant and seven-time father took visible. In tears and a broken voice, the 62-year-old Achenbach apologized several times in court for his “impossible” actions – with its customers and with his family.
“I may be broke, but not ruined”
But occasionally shone the previous joke Native Wins agent in the courtroom or by. “I’m dematerialized” he once said in a brief interview with the German Press Agency. “I may be broke, but not ruined.” At the end of the process but Achenbach was sitting pale and visibly weakened between its defenders.
Achenbach was part of the left-wing student movement, before getting into the art about 40 years ago. He made after studying the social one year internship in the prison Siegburg, before he founded his first gallery in 1973 in Dusseldorf and his rise to fame began as an art consultant.
“A rogue he was always”
Achenbach’s flair for aspiring artists made him the most influential power broker of the art scene. He recommended already in the 70s works by Gerhard Richter to amounts that would be considered today mockery prices. “An exuberant man full of ideas” is how Glenn D. Lowry, director of the world-famous Museum of Modern Art in New York, the German art experts. But
Achenbach also loved the glamor and parties. He drove the Bentley of Joseph Beuys. He supplied the money for the cocaine orgies of Immendorff, because he thought it would be for the medical treatment of his friend. “A Filou he has always been,” Gerhard Richter
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