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Max Jakob Friedländer

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If the determination of the authorship of an individual work of art most certainly is not the ultimate and highest task of artistic erudition; even if it were no path to the goal: nevertheless, without a doubt, it is a school for the eye, since there is no formulation of a question which forces us to
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During his lifetime he took high quality photographs of artwork wherever he travelled. His personal archive with approximately 15,000 photos and reproductions of 15th- and 16th-century paintings from the North and South Netherlands are often accompanied with notes including such things as the
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penetrate so deeply the essence of an individual work as that concerning the identity of the author. The individual work, rightly understood, teaches us what a comprehensive knowledge universal artistic activity is incapable of teaching us.
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provenance, attribution, relative condition, and location of the paintings. The majority of his work has been transcribed and digitised in the RKDimages database of the Dutch National Institute of Art History (
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Annick Born: Antwerp Mannerism: a fashionable style? in: ExtravagANT. A forgotten chapter of Antwerp painting 1500–1530. Catalogue Maastricht and Antwerp 2005, pp. 10–19.
1109: 514: 1079: 391: 110:. He gave priority to a critical reading based on sensitivity rather than on grand artistic and or aesthetic theories. He described it as follows: 958: 468: 186: 180: 68: 76:(privy councillor) under the German Empire. He also donated several works to the collection and worked in the art trade as an advisor, to 72:. In 1933 he was dismissed as a "non-Aryan" and in 1939 had to move to Amsterdam because he was Jewish. He attained the rank and title of 877: 785: 507: 1069: 484: 251: 474: 1094: 948: 62:' old master paintings and sculpture) under Bode in 1904 and became director himself from 1924 to 1932, working on his history 456: 943: 532: 500: 790: 306: 775: 820: 780: 1054: 770: 289: 1049: 988: 882: 810: 765: 388: 1089: 1064: 867: 795: 800: 1099: 1059: 953: 805: 523: 120: 35: 1104: 54:
took him on as his assistant in 1896 for the paintings division. He was appointed deputy director of the
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Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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Meisterwerke der niederländischen Malerei des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts
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Masterpieces of Netherlandish painting of the 15th and 16th centuries
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for undocumented artists in this style, and others of the period.
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He should not be confused with the German-American art historian
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Friedländer's approach to art history was essentially that of a
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in the decades around 1900. His later writings, in particular
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to some extent climbed down from the positions taken earlier.
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and the 14-volume (printed in 16, with supplements) survey
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Friedlander, Max J. (1969). Rudolf M. Heilbrunn (ed.).
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art historian
Early Netherlandish painting
Northern Renaissance
Kupferstichkabinett Berlin
Friedrich Lippmann
Wilhelm von Bode
Kaiser Friedrich Museum
Berlin State Museums
Early Netherlandish Painting
geheimrat
Hermann Göring
Antwerp Mannerism
notnames
Walter Friedländer
connoisseur
Vienna School of Art History
German Nationalism
RKD
Die altniederländische Malerei
Early Netherlandish Painting




"Dictionary of Art historians: "Friedländer, Max J[acob]""
the original
ISBN
0-238-78921-7
"On art and connoisseurship"

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