peoplepill id: julius-s-held
JSH
Germany United States of America
1 views today
1 views this week
Julius S. Held
Art historian

Julius S. Held

The basics

Quick Facts

Intro
Art historian
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Mosbach, Germany
Place of death
Bennington, USA
Age
97 years
Education
University of Freiburg
Notable Works
Julius S. Held Collection of Rare Books
 
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Julius Samuel Held (1905–2002) was an art historian, collector, and expert on Dutch painters Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Rembrandt. He published several monographs and was a professor of art history at Barnard College, Columbia University, from 1937–70.

Biography

Julius S. Held was born on April 15, 1905 to Adolf and Nannette Held, who ran a clothing store in Mosbach, Germany. He attended university in Freiburg, Heidelberg, Berlin, and Vienna, and earned his doctorate from the University of Freiburg in 1930 with a dissertation on Albrecht Dürer. After the Nazi regime came to power in 1933, Held sought a way to emigrate. He arrived in the United States in 1934. In 1936, he married Ingrid-Marta Nordin-Petterson, an art conservator. The couple had two children.

Held became professor of art history at Columbia University's Barnard College in New York City in 1937, a position he held until his retirement in 1970. Later in his life, he moved to Bennington, Vermont,where he died in 2002.

Works

Held wrote several monographs on Dutch painters including Rembrandt, Anthony van Dyck, and Peter Paul Rubens. These works can be found by searching for Julius S. Held on Worldcat.

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Julius S. Held is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
From our partners
Sponsored
Credits
References and sources
Julius S. Held
arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes