Reinhold Vasters

In Aachen, he worked with Heinrich Joseph Viethen making and repairing metal articles for the cathedral, and developed a reputation as a specialist in antique liturgical gold and silver.

To support his family after his wife's death, Vasters started to create reproduction works in a historical style.

He worked for the art historian Franz Bock, who moved to Aachen in 1862, and for goldsmiths August Witte and Martin Vogeno.

He also worked for the art dealer Frédéric Spitzer from Vienna, who helped Vasters to sell historical fakes.

He became an expert in faking Renaissance jewellery, in the styles of, for example, Wenzel Jamnitzer, Leone Leoni, or Valerio Belli.