Wilhelm Valentiner

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Wilhelm Valentiner (1880- ? ) was a German art historian and critic and museum official. He was born at Karlsruhe (Baden), and studied at Heidelberg under Henry Thode, and in Holland with De Groot and with Bredius, whose assistant he was at the Gallery of The Hague. In 1905 he was called to Berlin by William Bode, under whom he worked at the Kaiser Friedrich Museum and Kunstegewerke Museum. In 1907 he was appointed curator of the department of decorative arts in the Metropolitan Museum (New York), which under his supervision became one of the foremost in the world. After service at the front in the European War he was, in 1916, attached to the general staff at Berlin. Especially known through his writings on Flemish and Dutch painting, he published:

• Rembrandt (1907), with Bode
• Altholländische Genre Zeichungen (1908), with Bode
• The Art of the Low Countries (1914)
• The Last Years of Michelangelo (1914)

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