Otto Hirschmann
Otto Heinrich Hirschmann (born January 14, 1889 in St. Gallen ; † April 27, 1962 in Bad Ragaz ) was a Swiss-Dutch art historian and art dealer .
Otto Hirschmann attended grammar school in Sankt Gallen and from 1909 studied art history in Munich, Berlin, Paris and Basel . In Basel he received his doctorate in 1913 under Ernst Heidrich with a thesis on Hendrik Goltzius . From 1914 to 1920 he was assistant to Cornelis Hofstede de Groot in The Hague and worked on volumes 7 to 10 of his descriptive and critical catalog of the works of the most outstanding Dutch painters of the 17th century . From 1920 until it closed in 1934, he managed the branch of the Berlin art dealer Galerie Van Diemen & Co. in The Hague. After that he worked as an independent art dealer.
Publications (selection)
- Hendrick Goltzius 1558-1617. Life and graphic works . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1914 (dissertation, digitized version ).
- Hendrick Goltzius as a painter 1600–1617 . Nijhoff, The Hague 1916.
- List of graphic works by Hendrick Goltzius 1558–1617 . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1921 ( digitized version ).
literature
- Persoonlijkheden in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in woord en beeld. Nederlanders en hun werk Amsterdam 1938, pp. 664–665 ( digitized ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hirschmann, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hirschmann, Otto Heinrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss-Dutch art historian and art dealer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Gallen |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 1962 |
| Place of death | Bad Ragaz |