Eduard Plietzsch
Eduard Plietzsch (born July 9, 1886 in Altenburg , † December 6, 1961 in Cologne ) was a German art historian.
Life
Plietzsch studied art history in Berlin, where he worked for Wilhelm von Bode . He supported Cornelis Hofstede de Groot in his inventory of Dutch paintings, became an expert on Dutch baroque artists and received an entry in Volume 5 of his reference work Descriptive and Critical Directory of the Works of the Most Excellent Dutch Painters of the 17th Century for his work on Gerard ter Borch . After Hofstede de Groot's death, he planned to summarize his findings in a book, but this was interrupted by World War II. He finally published it in 1944 and this remained the final update of Emile Michel's version in 1887 until it was updated by Sturla Gudlaugsson in 1960.
Plietzsch was director and, alongside Kurt Benedict, co-owner of Galerie van Diemen & Co., which had offices in Berlin, Amsterdam, The Hague and New York. The Berlin office organized the first exhibition of Russian art in 1922, but it was closed in 1935.
During the Second World War, Plietzsch participated as an art expert for Kajetan Mühlmann in the National Socialist art theft from the occupied states.
In 1952, Plietzsch handed over his archives to the Dutch Institute for Art History (RKD).
Web links
- Eduard Plietzsch. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
- https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=eduard+plietzsch&dblist=638
- https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.167938
- http://www.lostart.de/Content/051_ProvenienzRaubkunst/DE/Sammler/D/van%20Diemen.html
- https://arthistorians.info/plietzsche
- https://rkd.nl/data/com_rkd_archive/pdf/NL-HaRKD-0262.ead.pdf
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Plietzsch, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 1961 |
| Place of death | Cologne |