Herbert Stewart Leonard

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Herbert Stewart Leonard (born October 10, 1908 in Fargo , North Dakota , † June 1, 1952 in St. Louis ) was an American art historian.

Life

Stewart was born to Herbert Otis Leonard. He studied art history from 1926 at the University of Chicago and taught in the Stone City artists' colony. He submitted his dissertation in 1934 on the architectural history of Chicago. In May 1933 he became director of the art gallery in Key West, organized exhibitions, made purchases, donations, a local program for the promotion of art, cultivated the connection with painters in Florida. From June 1935, he served as director of the Zanesville (Ohio) Art Institute , gave art classes and wrote articles about his collection.

After the death of his wife Dolores, he volunteered for the army in June 1941. He served as a bomb defuser and received the rank of captain in May 1944. After moving to the Department of Art, Cultural Property and Monument Protection ( Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Section ) of the General Staff, he assisted its boss, Major Bancel LaFarge, and interrogated art thieves such as Hermann Göring. From 1947 he headed the Central Collecting Point in Munich. In November of the following year he resigned because of a serious dispute with the military government over the return of certain works of art to Italy.

He returned to the United States to the St. Louis Municipal Art Museum and reported regularly on valuable donations, such as an unpublished, richly illustrated manuscript by Paul Gauguin , classicist Berlin porcelain, Byzantine and Romanesque goldsmiths, and contemporary German sculptures. In 1950 he wrote about graphics and paintings for the "Mississippi Panorama."

Works

  • History of Architecture in Chicago, Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1934
  • An unpublished manuscript by Paul Gauguin, Bulletin of the City Art Museum of St. Louis, Vol. 34, No. 3, Summer 1949, pp. 41 ff.
  • A gift of Berlin Porcelain with some pieces by Johann Gottfried Schadow, ibid., Vol. 34, no. 4, autumn 1949, p. 62 ff.
  • Medieval antiquities from the estate of the late Joseph Brummer, ibid., Vol. 35, No. 1/2, Winter 1950, p. 4 ff.
  • Contemporary German sculpture by Sintenis, Kolbe, Lehmbruck and Wimmer, ibid., Vol. 35, no. 3, summer 1950, p. 44 ff.

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  • National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, M1944, Records of the American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historical Monuments in War Areas, 1943–1946, Correspondence Relating To Personnel
  • Lynn H. Nicholas, Der Raub der Europa, The fate of European works of art in the Third Reich, Munich 1997, p. 575
  • The Monuments Men, For the Preservation of Art
  • Kristy Raine, When Tillage Begins, The Stone City Art Colony and School, Cedar Rapids 2003

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Perry T. Rathbone (ed.), Mississippi - Panorama, the life and landscape of the Father of Waters, City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1950, p. 50 ff.
  2. ↑ http://archive.org/stream/mississippipanor00city#page/50/mode/2up
personal data
SURNAME Stewart Leonard, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Fargo
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1952
Place of death St. Louis