| Code | DS/UK/1659 |
| Dates | 02/05/1880-06/09/1958 |
| Person Name | Valentiner; Wilhelm Reinhold Otto (02/05/1880-06/09/1958) |
| Surname | Valentiner |
| Forenames | Wilhelm Reinhold Otto |
| Activity | Art Historian; personal assistant of Wilhelm von Bode at Kaiser Friedrich Museum Berlin (1906); curator of decorative arts at Metropolitan Museum New York (1908); founded Journal "Art in America" (1913), editor (-1931); curator of different exhibitions at Metropolitan Museum N.Y. (1921); founder of "Art Quarterly" (1937), editor (-1949); Director General for the "Masterpieces of Art" exhibition of Chicago World's Fair (1939); consultant for Detroit Institute of Art (from 1920), Director (1924-1944); first Director of the North Carolina Museum in Raleigh (1955-58). |
| Relationships | Son of Wilhelm Valentiner (1845-1931) and Anna Lepsius Valentiner (1848-1919); had one brother; |
| History | Studied art history at the universities of Leipzig and Heidelberg; doctoral dissertation (1904); acquired US citizenship (1930). |
| Source | Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l'histoire de l'art; de Vasari à nos jours. Paris 1986, p. 498; Barnes, James B., Preface, Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of W. R. Valentiner, 1880-1958. North Carolina Museum of Art, 1959, also in Chronology, pp. 1-4; Sterne, Margaret Heiden. The Passionate Eye: the Life of William R. Valentiner. Detroit 1980; Tomkins, Calvin. Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York 1970, p. 188. |
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