Beltracchi, together with his wife Helene, sold forgeries of alleged works by famous artists, including Max Ernst, Heinrich Campendonk, Fernand Léger, and Kees van Dongen.

[4] Beltracchi designed the artwork to The Fall of a Rebel Angel, the eighth studio album from German musical project Enigma.

Since his release from prison, Wolfgang and Helene Beltracchi have been living and working as artists on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland.

He and his wife also established a false provenance for the works, claiming that Helene Beltracchi's grandfather—the wealthy industrialist Werner Jägers—had been friends with the German-Jewish art dealer Alfred Flechtheim in the 1920s.

Beltracchi's labels purported his works came from the ‘Flechtheim Collection’ and on the verso had a strategically placed adhesive label bearing a picture based on a miniature woodcut in portrait format, the lower half of which had a roughly sketched, depicting the storied gallery's owner in profile.

Space has been left for adding the artist’s name or the title of the work by hand; in the upper third, rough capital letters on a black background boldly spell out the words Sammlung Flechtheim.

Technical analysis by Nicholas Eastaugh revealed that the paint contained titanium white (which was not specified on the label), a pigment that had not been in use in Campendonk's times.

[24][25][26] Wolfgang and Helene Beltracchi were allowed to serve their sentences in an open prison, as long as they had regular jobs.

On 23 February 2015, the CBS News program 60 Minutes[30] interviewed Wolfgang Beltracchi after his release from prison in Germany.

[33] In January 2014, Helene and Wolfgang Beltracchi published two books: an autobiography[34] and a collection of letters the pair wrote to each other while in prison.

[40] The case was closed without going to trial, after Leismann signed a deal with German authorities in April 2014 and paid a €7500 fine.

[41] A French tribunal ruled on 24 May 2013 that Werner Spies and gallery owner Jacques de La Béraudière were to pay an art collector €652,883.

[42] However, this decision was overturned by the Court of Appeal of Versailles which ruled that Spies had "expresse[d] an opinion outside of a determined transaction" and could not therefore "be charged with a responsibility equivalent to that of an expert consulted in the context of a sale”.

This deep understanding of art history and the techniques of different masters allows him to create works that convincingly echo a wide range of styles.

By avoiding a specific personal style, he maintains the flexibility to explore and create across diverse expressive forms.

His works are characterized by their technical excellence and the breadth of stylistic diversity, making them stand out in the art world for their variety and execution.

This ability to empathize with any artistic work after intensive study is what sets Beltracchi apart, enabling him to produce art that is both impressive and varied.

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford: "To paint in the styles of such creators, as Beltracchi succeeds in doing, consequently means to amplify the delightful effect of special moments of the past on the present.

This is no way shifts his talent and method, even if the self-commentaries sometimes take on a more scholarly tone, which admittedly does not diminish the energy of Beltracchis’s achievements."

[citation needed] The Bundesverband Deutscher Kunstversteigerer (German Federation of Art Auctioneers), as a section of its database of known forgeries[50] has published a catalogue of works from the fictional Sammlung Jägers which have been investigated by the LKA.

The catalogue lists 54 paintings as per October 2012, fakes presented as works by 24 different artists, including Heinrich Campendonk, Max Ernst, Auguste Herbin, Louis Marcoussis, André Derain, Jean Metzinger, Raoul Dufy, Kees van Dongen and Fernand Léger.

[54] In 2004, Beltracchi and his associates sold La Forêt (2), a fake 1927 Max Ernst oil painting, after Werner Spies had appraised it and had issued a certificate of authenticity.

[55] Galerie Cazeau-Béraudière lent it to the Max Ernst Museum [de] for a 2006 exhibition and subsequently sold it to collector Daniel Filipacchi for $7 million.

Together with a forged André Derain painting, it was taken to Kunstmuseum Ahlen [de] in July 2009 where it was shown to prospective customers, including Christie's, which rejected it.

A deal was being negotiated to sell the painting for €5.8 million to an unknown buyer, when it was seized in the museum by police 25 August 2010.

[58] In July 2004, Steve Martin paid Paris gallery Cazeau-Béraudière €700,000 for Landschaft mit Pferden (Landscape with horses), supposedly painted by Heinrich Campendonk in 1915.

[61] In November 2006, Beltracchi and associates sold Rotes Bild mit Pferden (Red Picture with Horses), supposedly a 1914 painting by Heinrich Campendonk, to Trasteco, a Maltese company, for €2.88 million through Lempertz auctioneers in Cologne.