Annemarie Henle Pope

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Annemarie Henle Pope (born Annemarie Henle July 18, 1907 in Dortmund ; died November 5, 2001 in Washington, DC ) was a German-American art historian and exhibition organizer.

Life

Annemarie Henle was a daughter of the Dortmund surgeon Adolf Henle and Tina Lang. Her brother Fritz Henle became a photographer, the other brother Werner Henle became a doctor. They too had to emigrate from Germany because of the racist persecution. Henle attended the Municipal Schiller Lyceum and the Municipal Goethe Lyceum and, after graduating from high school, studied art history, French and English in Heidelberg, Paris and Munich from 1927. She received her doctorate in Heidelberg in 1932 with the dissertation The type development of the southern German pulpit in the 18th century under August Grisebach .

Henle emigrated to the USA in 1937. There she organized the Master Drawings exhibition in 1939 . In 1942/43 she worked as an assistant director at the Portland Art Museum .

She married the art historian John Alexander Pope in 1948 and they had two children. From 1947 she was Assistant Director in charge for traveling exhibitions (Traveling Exhibitions) at the American Federation of Arts (AFA), from 1951 to 1964 director of the Traveling Exhibition Service of the Smithsonian Institution . Pope founded the International Exhibition Foundation in 1965 and served as its director until 1985. In the course of her professional life she organized more than 140 such traveling exhibitions.

Fonts

  • The type development of the southern German pulpit in the 18th century . Heidelberg: Meister, 1933
  • Master drawings: an exhibition of drawings from American museums and private collections . Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1940 / arranged by Annemarie Henle. San Francisco, Calif. : Palace of Fine Arts, 1941

literature

  • Pope, Annemarie Henle , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical manual of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , p. 527f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Gamarekian: WORKING PROFILE; THE 'FIRST LADY' OF A WORLD OF ART , NYT, November 24, 1984
personal data
SURNAME Pope, Annemarie Henle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henle, Annemarie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American art historian and exhibition organizer
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 2001
Place of death Washington, DC