Karl Lilienfeld
Horst Karl Lilienfeld (born September 14, 1885 in Leipzig ; † August 1, 1966 in Cademario , Ticino ) was a German art historian and dealer .
Life
Karl Lilienfeld, son of the Kommerzienrat Viktor Lilienfeld and his wife Bertha, b. Nachod, attended the Thomas School in Leipzig until 1905 and then studied art history and music history in Brussels, Munich, Berlin and the University of Halle . He received his doctorate in November 1910 in Halle under Adolph Goldschmidt .
After completing his studies, he became an assistant to Cornelis Hofstede de Groot in Amsterdam in January 1911 . In 1911 he became an assistant at the Royal Picture Gallery in the Mauritshuis in The Hague. In 1912 he went to Leipzig as head of the local art association . In 1926 he became director of the Galerie van Diemen in New York , later Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries . She dealt in pictures by old masters such as Hals and Rubens , French impressionists and German expressionists .
His nephew was the German-Dutch art historian Horst Gerson .
Publications
His main area of interest already becomes clear with his dissertation on Arent de Gelden , the Dutch painting of the 17th century. He assisted De Groot with volumes 5 to 7 of his descriptive and critical inventory of the works of the most outstanding Dutch painters of the 17th century. Century . He wrote articles for the general artist lexicon "Thieme-Becker" .
- Descriptive and critical inventory of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the 17th century. Century. Modeled after John Smith's Catalog raisonné . Volumes 5, 6, 7. Kleinberger, Paris 1912, 1915, 1918.
- Arent de funds. His life and his art . M. Nijhoff, The Hague 1914 (dissertation).
literature
Literature by and about Karl Lilienfeld in the catalog of the German National Library
Web links
- Lilienfeld, Karl in the Dictionary of Art Historians
- Karl Lilienfeld in the Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Individual evidence
- ↑ Richard Sachse, Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 114.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lilienfeld, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lilienfeld, Horst Karl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian and dealer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 1966 |
| Place of death | Cademario , Canton of Ticino |