Ernst J. Grube

Ernst J. Grube ( born May 9, 1932 in Kufstein, Austria, † June 12, 2011 in London ) was a German art historian and author.

Life

His German parents moved with him to Berlin, where he attended the Schiller Gymnasium. Mine studied at the Free University of Berlin. After graduating, he got a job at the library of the National Museums in Berlin, where he assistant of Ernst Kühnel was then. In those years, his interest in the Islamic art that accompanied in his life. In 1958 he moved to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which was conducted in those years by James Rorimer. In 1968 was the first pit curator of the Islamic collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. In the following years he was instrumental in the expansion of the Islamic collection. He became professor in 1968 at Hunter College at the City University of New York. In 1972 he moved to Italy and taught at Padua and Naples. From 1977 to 1988 he taught as a professor at the University of Venice. In his first marriage pit was married from 1958 with Alberta Fabris. His second wife, he married the art historian Eleanor Sims.

Works (selection)

  • Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Century from Collections in the United States and Canada, 1962
  • The World of Islam, 1966
  • The Classical Style in Islamic Painting, 1968
  • Islamic Pottery of the 8th to the 15th Century in the Keir Collection, 1976
  • Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History and Social Meaning ( together with G. Michell ), 1984
  • A Mirror for Princes from India: Illustrated Versions of the Kalilah Wa, 1992
  • Studies in Islamic Painting, 1995
  • Peerless images: Persian painting and its sources ( together with B. Marshak and E. Sims ), 2002
  • Islamic Painting From American Collections, 2011
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