Full Name: Grimm, Claus
Gender: male
Date Born: unknown
Date Died: unknown
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): Dutch (culture or style), Dutch Golden Age, Northern Renaissance, and painting (visual works)
Overview
Frans Hals authority and historian of picture frames. Grimm wrote much of his book in the Ashmolean museum, Oxford, having studied the frames collection of Karl Theodore Parker.
Selected Bibliography
[dissertation:] Frans Hals: Entwicklung, Werkanalyse, Gesamtkatalog. Munich, 1969, published, Berlin: Mann, 1972; Frans Hals, das Gesamtwerk. Stuttgart: Belser, 1989, English, Frans Hals: the Complete Work. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1990; Rembrandt selbst: eine Neubewertung seiner Porträtkunst. Stuttgart: Belser, 1991; Stilleben: die niederländischen und deutschen Meister. Stuttgart: Belser Verlag, 1988; Alte Bilderrahmen: Epochen, Typen, Material. Munich: Callwey, 1977, English, The Book of Picture Frames. New York: Abaris Books, 1981.