Julius S. Held

Julius Samuel Held ( born April 15, 1905 in Mosbach, † December 22, 2002 in Bennington, Vermont ) was a German - American art historian. His specialty was Dutch artist, especially Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt.

Life

Held studied from 1923 in Heidelberg, Berlin, Vienna and Freiburg and received his PhD in 1930 Dürer Hans Jantzen in Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1934 he fled as a Jew before the Nazi regime in Germany and emigrated to the United States. In 1936 he married the Swedish conservator Ingrid Marta Petterssen and 1938, his daughter Anna Held Audette to the world, which also later became professor of art.

From 1937 to 1970 taught art history hero mainly at Barnard College and Columbia University, but also at the New York University, Yale University, University of Pittsburgh and at Williams College. The title of a full professor, he received in 1954. As Adviser to the Governor of Puerto Rico, he managed to put together the most important art collection in the Caribbean. Even in retirement he taught continue as a visiting professor in Williamstown (Massachusetts), both at Williams College, and at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute ("The Clark ").

In 1984, he donated from his more than 1,000 masterpieces comprehensive collection of 200 of the National Gallery of Art in Washington. In old age, his attention returned, inter alia, back to his hometown of Mosbach, where he significantly contributed to the establishment of a memorial for the November pogrom of 1938, in which his home synagogue was destroyed. After his death appeared in the New York Times, a renowned obituary.

Writings

  • " Dürer's effect on the Dutch art of his time. " (Dissertation, 1930)
  • " Reflections on Seventeenth Century Dutch Painting. " Parnassus 11 ( February 1939): 16-8.
  • " Peter Paul Rubens". New York: H. N. Abrams, ( 1953);
  • " Alteration and mutilation of Works of art". Durham: Duke University Press, ( 1963);
  • "Notes on Jacob Jordaens. " Oud Holland 80 no 2 (1965 ): 112-22;
  • " Rubens 's Glynde sketch and the installation of the Whitehall ceiling" in: Burlington magazine, (1970 ), 806 pp. 274-281
  • "Baroque Painting, Sculpture, Architecture". New York: H. N. Abrams ( 1971)
  • " Rembrandt 's Aristotle and Other Rembrandt Studies". Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, (1969).
  • "On the Date and Function of Some Allegorical Sketches by Rubens. " Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 38 (1975 ): 218-33;
  • " Rembrandt 's Juno. " Apollo 105 ( June 1977): 478-85;
  • "The oil sketches of Peter Paul Rubens: a critical catalog " ( Kress Foundation studies in the history of European art, Volume 7 ), 2 vols, Princeton, NJ (1980).
  • " Rembrandt Studies". Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.
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