Jerome M. Eisenberg

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Jerome Martin Eisenberg (* 6. July 1930 ) is a doctorate ( Ph.D. ) American art expert and art dealer . He is director of the Royal-Athena Galleries in New York, which was founded in 1942, and has been editor of the archaeological journal Minerva since 1990 . The International Review of Ancient Art and Archeology . He served as editor-in-chief of the magazine until 2009. His specialty are Etruscan bronzes and Roman sculptures .

Live and act

Eisenberg's parents had a private school in Boston. In an interview in the Riehener Zeitung (2015), Eisenberg reported that he began trading ancient coins with his father as early as 1942, when he was eleven at the time. With the end of his school attendance he took on a study of geology in Boston . In 1951 he went into his own business in Boston with the coin trade, which he expanded in 1954 to trade in antiques. In 1951, after Eisenberg left the United States Army , he opened a store in New York City.

Eisenberg studied at the Charles University in Prague and Princeton with the Czech archaeologist Jiří Frel (1923-2006). He presumably achieved his doctorate in its subject area, ie in archeology and ancient art history , especially since he has published on subjects of ancient numismatics and art history. In 1965 Eisenberg published a volume on the art of antiquity.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society in 1952, voted out of office in 1965, and reappointed in 1985. Since 1955 he has been a sponsor of the American Numismatic Society , of which he became a member in 1998, and since 1960 a member of the Archaeological Institute of America . In 1966 he was made a Life Fellow of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . In 1996 he taught as a visiting professor at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Leipzig .

In 2007 he gave a lecture on Perspectives on the Antiquities Trade and the Collector: Past, Present, and Future at the symposium “The Future of the Global Past” at Yale University .

In June 2012, Eisenberg was awarded the Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana by the President of the Italian Republic , Giorgio Napolitano , for his work . He was honored for his numerous publications on Etruscan and Roman art in the service of Italy's reputation. He is a founding member of the International Association of Dealers in Ancient Art (IADAA). The IADAA was founded in 1993 and represents as an organization the leading international dealers of classical, Egyptian and Near Eastern art of antiquity.

Eisenberg is committed to responsible buying and selling of ancient art. In 1993 he gave a lecture on this at a UNIDROIT conference. Jerome M. Eisenberg made a contribution to the scientific discussion of Bronze Age ( Minoan ) archeology with an essay and an analysis of the authenticity of the Phaistos Disc . He found evidence that Luigi Pernier , the Swiss artist and restorer Emile Gilliéron , who worked on the excavation of the Knossos Palace with Arthur Evans , to have also forged the disc. The results of the work of Emile Gilliéron and his son Emile (1885–1939) are often "artistically very free" or are viewed by some specialists as pure art forgeries. Their work was not based on the archaeological standard at that time either; some things (like the 'Phaistos Disc' or the 'Snake Goddess of Knossos') are even suspected of being pure fakes .

Publications (selection)

  • The Phaistos Disk: A One Hundred-Year-Old Hoax? In: Minerva. International Review of Ancient Art & Archeology. Volume 19, Number 4, 2008, pp. 9–24 ( PDF on utexas.edu)
  • Art of the ancient world. Royal-Athena Galleries, New York 1965
  • Catalog of Luristan bronzes and early Islamic pottery. Royal-Athena Galleries, New York 1965
  • A Guide to Modern Foreign Coins. Published by Royal Coin Co. Inc, New York 1958
  • Mythologies of the Classical World and Ancient Egypt, with Glossaries, Chronologies, and Themes for Collecting. Published by Royal-Athena Galleries, New York 2006
  • A Guide to Roman Imperial Coins. Published by Royal Coin Company, 1959
  • Gods and mortals: bronzes of the ancient world from Italy to Iran. Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, NY 1989
  • Ancient Egyptian mining & metallurgy. Aurora, London 1996, Minerva 7, No. 4 (Jul / Aug 1996) p. 59 f.
  • News from Egypt. Minerva 7, No. 6 (Nov / Dec 1996) pp. 2-3.
  • Conference on Secondary School Earth Science Education to be held in Boston, March 17-18. 1 March 1950. In: School Science and Mathematics, Volume 50, Issue 3, March 1950, p. 186

Web links

  • IADAA member Jerome M. Eisenberg honored by the Italian President. Coin Week, June 21, 2012 [6]
  • IADAA. International Association of Dealers in Ancient Art. Entry to Royal-Athena Galleries [7]
  • Photograph by Jerome M. Eisenberg [8]
  • Letter to Karl Schefold from Jerome M. Eisenberg. - New York, July 12, 1996. [9]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to information from The Library of Congress under Eisenberg, Jerome M. [1]
  2. ↑ Biographical notes on royalathena.com [2]
  3. ↑ Basel ancient art fair exhibitor Jerome M. Eisenberg on the beginning of his career and the beauty of the BAAF "Enduring fascination for the world of antiquity". ( [3] on riehener-zeitung.ch, here p. 11)
  4. ^ Marjorie Hooker: Geological Survey Bulletin, Issue 985. US Department of the Interior, Geological Survey; Washington, DC, 1952, p. 84 ( [4] on books.google.de)
  5. ↑ Design & Decoration S03 ep5: Jerome Eisenberg, Eisenberg Antiques, [New York]. Interview with Jerome Eisenberg ( [5] on exero.com)
  6. ↑ Marion C. Archera: Classical Marble Head in the Krannert Art Museum. Issues of Identity and Museum Acquisition Policy. Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009, p. 21 f. ( online ).
  7. ^ Hugh Pagan: Record of Members and Fellows. In: Robert Andrew Glendinning Carson: A History of the Royal Numismatic Society, 1836-1986. Royal Numismatic Society, London 1986, p. 120 ( PDF )
  8. ↑ Jerome M. Eisenberg: The Phaistos Disk: A One Hundred-Year-Old Hoax? In: Marie Earle (ed.): Minerva. International Review of Ancient Art & Archeology . tape 19 , no. 4 , 2008, ISSN  0957-7718 , p. 9–24 (English, online [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).
  9. ↑ Jerome M. Eisenberg: The Phaistos Disk: A 100-Year-Old Hoax? Addenda, Corrigenda, and Comments. In: Minerva. International Review of Ancient Art & Archeology. Volume 19, number 5, 2008, p. 15 f.
  10. ↑ Kenneth DS Lapatin: Snake Goddesses, Fake Goddesses. How forgers on Crete met the demand for Minoan antiquities. Archeology (A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America) Volume 54 Number 1, January / February 2001
  11. ↑ Tim Heilbronner , Heinz Scheiffele : The "Diskos of Phaistos" and the plaster bowl in the historical goods archive of WMF. A new reference to the artist-restorers father son Emile Gilliéron. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg. News bulletin of the Landesdenkmalpflege, 2 (2017), pp. 147-150 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Eisenberg, Jerome M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eisenberg, Jerome Martin; Eisenberg, Jerry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art appraiser, art dealer, art historian, author, founder and director of the Royal-Athena Galleries
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1930