Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold, 1880-1958

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Dates:
Birth 1880
Death 1958
Americans,
English,

Biographical notes:

Epithet: art historian

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000506.0x0002d7

Valentiner was a museum director, writer, and art historian.

Born in Karlsruhe, Germany. Director, Detroit Institute of Art, 1924-1946, Director-Consultant, Los Angeles Museum of Art, 1946-1954, Director, J. Paul Getty Museum, Santa Monica, Calif., 1954, Director, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1955-1958. Editor, Art in America, 1913-1931, and author of books on Dutch painting and modern sculpture. Adams was his administrative assistant at the Getty, and is the wife of printmaker Clinton Adams.

From the description of Wilhelm Valentiner letters to Mary E. Adams, 1954-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80032013

Museum director, writer, art historian.

Born in Karlsruhe, Germany. Director, Detroit Institute of Art, 1924-1946, Director-Consultant, Los Angeles Museum of Art, 1946-1954, Director, Getty Museum, Santa Monica, Cal., 1954, Director, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1955-1958. Editor, Art in America, 1913-1931, and author of books on Dutch painting and modern sculpture.

From the description of Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner papers, 1860-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83784608

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Subjects:

  • Art, Modern
  • Art
  • Art museum directors
  • Art museums
  • Museum directors
  • World War, 1914-1918
  • World War, 1914-1918

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  • North Carolina--Raleigh (as recorded)
  • Michigan--Detroit (as recorded)
  • Berlin, Germany (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • California--Los Angeles (as recorded)
  • Germany (as recorded)

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