Helmut Seling

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Helmut Rüdiger Seling (born February 12, 1921 in Wels ; † October 28, 2016 in Munich ) was a German art historian and art dealer.

Life

From 1947 Seling studied art history at the University of Freiburg and completed his studies in 1952 with a dissertation on the development of the art museum as a task of architecture .

After working in a scientific publishing house, he opened his own art shop in Munich in 1964 as a silver specialist.

The Augsburg dinner service of the prince-bishops of Hildesheim

In 1980 he successfully worked to ensure that the famous Augsburg table silver of Hildesheim Prince-Bishop Friedrich Wilhelm von Westphalen , which was awaiting auction in Geneva, remained together in the core inventory as a closed ensemble and could be acquired by the Bavarian National Museum in 1981 .

In 1991 he gave the Bavarian National Museum his archive on Augsburg goldsmithing, which had been compiled over decades of research. He worked as a lecturer for the Ludwig Maximilians University . He donated the Helmut Seling Prize for research on applied art (dissertation, master's thesis, completed publication).

Fonts (selection)

  • The art of the Augsburg goldsmiths 1529–1868. 3 volumes. 1980.
    • with Stephanie Singer: The Augsburger gold and silversmiths 1529–1868: Masters, brands, works. Substantially expanded and revised new edition. Munich 2007.
  • Treasures from the Kremlin, Peter the Great in Western Europe Munich. Hirmer. 1991

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  1. ↑ Gloria Ehret: On the death of the silver connoisseur Helmut Seling In: Weltkunst 2016/12
  2. ↑ Gloria Ehret: On the death of the silver connoisseur Helmut Seling In: Weltkunst 2016/12
  3. ^ Website of the Bavarian National Museum
  4. ^ Website of the Association of German Art Historians

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personal data
SURNAME Seling, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seling, Helmut Rüdiger (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian and art dealer
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH catfish
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 2016
Place of death Munich