Alfred Salmony

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Alfred Salmony (born November 10, 1890 in Cologne , † April 29, 1958 on board the Île de France ) was a German-Jewish art historian with a focus on East Asia.

Career

Alfred Salmony made at the Schiller-Gymnasium in Cologne High School . From 1912 he studied art history and archeology in Bonn and Vienna. During the First World War , in which he had participated since 1914, he was taken prisoner as a cavalry sergeant. Salmony received his doctorate from Paul Clemen in Bonn in 1920 with a dissertation on religious sculptures . In the same year he began as an assistant at the Museum for East Asian Art in Cologne , where he was appointed deputy director in 1924. He took on teaching positions at Cologne University .

Salmony, who also wrote about contemporary art in the magazine Das Kunstblatt , emigrated to France in 1933 and to the USA in 1934, where he became a lecturer, from 1938 in Seattle, then professor of Chinese art at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University .

Fonts

  • Chinese landscape painting . Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin 1921
  • Europe East Asia. Religious sculptures . Potsdam 1922
  • The Chinese stone sculpture . 1922
  • Artibus Asiae. Eastern Art Journal . Edited by Carl Hentze , Antwerp, and Alfred Salmony, Cologne. 1925–1932 (Vol. 1 - Vol. 4) and 1945–1957 (Vol. 9–20) as sole editor.
  • (Ed.): Artibus Asiae. A volume presented to Baron Edward von der Heydt in honor of his seventieth birthday by his friends and admirers. Fifteen authorative and original contributions dealing with Eastern Art . 1952

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SURNAME Salmony, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian with a focus on East Asia
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1958
Place of death on board the Île de France (ship)