On Art and Connoisseurship (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781443726474)

AMONG art historians of to-day there is hardly anyone who enjoys a position comparable to that of Dr. Max J. Friedl舅der. He is universally recognized as being probably the greatest living expert, notably, of course, on the early Netherlandish and German masters; and in normal times not a day passed on which pictures were not submitted to him for opinion from all parts of the world. But he is much more than the mere, if accomplished, expert, worried without respite by people eager for his verdict on their possessions: the list of his writings-all of them revealing the outlook of the born historian-makes a truly imposing series, culminating in his monumental History of Early Netherlandish Painting issued from 1924 onwards in fourteen substantial volumes. And for a long time the whole of this ceaseless activity had for its background Dr. Friedl舅der's connection with the Berlin Picture Gallery and Print Room: their marvellous growth during the period in question owes in fact an enormous debt to the distinguished scholar, whose career as an official came to an end in 1933, when Dr. Friedl舅der relinquished the post as Head of the great Picture Gallery, to which he had been appointed as Wilhelm von Bode's successor. It is, indeed, the very aroma of that institution in its best days which pervades the whole activity of one of the greatest of those who stand to it in the relation of at once alumnus and creator.

Author: Max J. Friedlander
ISBN-10: 1443726478
ISBN-13: 9781443726474
Publisher: Lowrie Press
Language: English
Published: 11/04/2008
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d