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Wilhelm Valentiner

Art historian and museum director (1880-1958)

  • Wilhelm R. Valentiner
  • Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner
  • William Valentiner
  • W.R. Valentiner
  • Wilhelm Reinhold Otto Valentiner
  • William Reinhold Valentiner
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Statements

given name
Wilhelm
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family name
Valentiner
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significant person
Ferdinand Möller
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stated in
Museums and the art trade: dangerous liaisons?
quotation
Ferdinand Möller was one of the few dealers authorised by the Nazi propaganda ministry to sell so-called degenerate art confiscated from German museums. Before the Nazi period, he had been crucial in bringing German Modernism into the US market. Working with Möller, says Megan Reddicks, a doctoral student at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, the German director of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), Wilhelm Valentiner, had built a collection of German Expressionist art as early as the 1920s. “They had some sort of good rapport, I hesitate to go as far as to say that it was a close friendship,” she says. But they collaborated frequently, including on a 1923 exhibition of German contemporary art in New York. (English)
reference URL
https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=RRL5OJ559061
employer
Detroit Institute of Arts
start time
1924
end time
1945
3 references
stated in
Dictionary of Art Historians
reference URL
http://arthistorians.info/valentinerw
quotation
From Germany he advised the Detroit Institute of Arts on acquisitions. He returned to the United States in 1921 to catalog he Widener collection at the Metropolitan. He launched the first American exhibition of German Expressionism at the Anderson Galleries, New York, in 1923. The following year Valentiner was appointed director of the Detroit Institute of Art. Valentiner's tenure at Detroit included acquisitions of Pre-Columbian and African art, the first American museum to do so. In 1927 a new building was opened. He became a United States citizen in 1930. Valentiner engaged Diego Rivera to paint the murals of the Detroit Institute, the communist artist's work created a controversy. During the Depression, when the city lacked enough money for his salary, Valentiner returned to Germany for 16 months beginning in 1934. He testified in the 1935 tax case of Andrew Mellon, resulting in the founding of the National Gallery. Valentiner founded the Art Quarterly for the College Art Association in 1937 (and was its editor until 1949). He was Director General for the "Masterpieces of Art" exhibition of the 1939 Chicago World's Fair. He retired from the Detroit Institute of Art in 1944, moving to New York city. (English)
stated in
The Detroit Institute of Arts: A Brief History
page(s)
101
stated in
A Museum on the Verge : A Socioeconomic History of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1882-2000.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
start time
1946
end time
1953
1 reference
stated in
Dictionary of Art Historians
reference URL
http://arthistorians.info/valentinerw
quotation
During the Depression, when the city lacked enough money for his salary, Valentiner returned to Germany for 16 months beginning in 1934. He testified in the 1935 tax case of Andrew Mellon, resulting in the founding of the National Gallery. Valentiner founded the Art Quarterly for the College Art Association in 1937 (and was its editor until 1949). He was Director General for the "Masterpieces of Art" exhibition of the 1939 Chicago World's Fair. He retired from the Detroit Institute of Art in 1944, moving to New York city. By 1946 Valentiner was Co-Director of the Los Angeles county Museum purchasing art and organizing exhibition for that museum, hiring his colleague Paul Wescher. For the 1949 show on Leonardo da Vinci, Valentiner commissioned models of machinery done from Leonardo drawings. These were subsequently purchased by IBM for a traveling show. In 1951 the North Carolina legislature founded a state art museum, prescribing him as art expert. Valentiner retired from the L. A. County museum in 1953 and the following year was called to develop and direct the J. Paul Getty Museum in Santa Monica. (English)
J. Paul Getty Trust
start time
1954
end time
1954
1 reference
reference URL
https://www.jstor.org/stable/773932
stated in
College Art Journal
quotation
College Art Journal V.18 No.3 (Spring 1959) p. 247 (English)
North Carolina Museum of Art
start time
1955
end time
1958
1 reference
reference URL
https://www.jstor.org/stable/773932
stated in
College Art Journal
quotation
College Art Journal V.18 No.3 (Spring 1959) p. 247 (English)
educated at
Leipzig University
1 reference
reference URL
https://www.jstor.org/stable/773932
stated in
College Art Journal
quotation
College Art Journal V.18 No.3 (Spring 1959) p. 247 (English)
Heidelberg University
1 reference
reference URL
https://www.jstor.org/stable/773932
stated in
College Art Journal
quotation
College Art Journal V.18 No.3 (Spring 1959) p. 247 (English)
work location
Detroit
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Berlin
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Los Angeles
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Raleigh
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conflict
World War I
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stated in
Dictionary of Art Historians
reference URL
http://arthistorians.info/valentinerw
quotation
In 1914 when Germany declared War in Europe, Valentiner returned to Germany, enlisted as a private, and was assigned the Expressionist painter Franz Marc as his sergeant. (English)
Commons Creator page
Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner
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Commons category
Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner
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Identifiers

FAST ID
45744
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De Agostini ID
Valentiner,+Wilhelm
subject named as
Valentiner, Wilhelm
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Freebase ID
/m/026h21n
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Kallías ID
PE00039347
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KBR person ID
14687195
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Prabook ID
1744626
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RKDartists ID
343500
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SNAC ARK ID
w64x5cd6
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WikiTree person ID
Valentiner-13
subject named as
Wilhelm Reinhold William Valentiner (2 May 1880 - 6 Sep 1958)
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