Geert Jan Jansen (born 1943) is a Dutch painter and art forger, who was arrested in 1994. Geert Jan Jansen was born in Waalre in the Netherlands. His engineer father was fond of art and Jansen became an art student. He befriended a US art dealer, , who ran a gallery called Mokum in Amsterdam. The trail of false addresses companies led Schöller and the French police to a farm in near Poitiers. Jansen - who had used the name Van den Bergen - and his associate were arrested May 6, 1994. It is estimated that Geert Jan Jansen made €10 million from his forgeries.