Seymour Slive

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Seymour Slive (born September 15, 1920 in Chicago , Illinois , † June 14, 2014 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was an American art historian and museum director.

Life

Seymour Slive was born the son of the Russian-Jewish Daniel Slive and Sophia Rapoport. He first began studying art history and served in the US Navy in the Pacific from 1942 to 1946 during World War II . Slive concluded his studies in 1952 at the University of Chicago with a dissertation under Ulrich Middeldorf with the title " Rembrandt and His Critics, 1630-1730". He had previously taught at Oberlin College . In 1954 he moved to Harvard University , where he was given a full professorship in 1961, a position he held for thirty years. From 1968 to 1971 he headed the visual arts department and in 1975 became director of the university's Harvard Art Museum .

Slive has devoted his research mainly to Dutch painting of the 17th century, in particular the art of her greatest portrait painter Frans Hals and the landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael . With Jakob Rosenberg and Engelbert Hendrik Ter Kuile , he published the summarizing presentation “Dutch Art and Architecture” in 1966.

Honors

Slive had been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1964 . In 1995 he was elected a corresponding member of the British Academy . He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Harvard University shortly before his death in 2014 .

Works (selection)

  • Rembrandt and His Critics, 1630-1730 , (Diss.) 1953, ISBN 0878173110
  • with Jakob Rosenberg , Engelbert Hendrik Ter Kuile : Dutch Art and Architecture. 1600-1800. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex 1966.
  • Frans Hals. National Gallery of Art: Kress Foundation, Studies in the History of European Art, London - Phaidon Press, 1974
  • Jacob van Ruisdael. 1981, ISBN 0896592375
  • (Ed.): Frans Hals. Prestel-Verlag, Munich & Mercatorfonds, Antwerp, 1989, ISBN 3791310321
  • Dutch Painting: 1600-1800. 1995, ISBN 0300064187
  • Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalog of His Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings. 2001, ISBN 0300089724
  • Rembrandt Drawings. 2009, ISBN 9780892369768
  • Jacob van Ruisdael: Windmills and Water Mills. 2011, ISBN 9781606060551
  • A Print after Jacob van Ruisdael , in Print Quarterly , XXIX, September 2012, page 320 f.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 31, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Slive, Seymour
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 2014
Place of death Cambridge , Massachusetts