Dictionary of Art HistoriansFull Name
Liphart, Karl Eduard, Baron von
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Date Born
1807
Date Died
1891
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German baron and connoisseur; friend of museum director Gustav Friedrich Waagen. Liphart and Waagen introduced Wilhelm Bode, later director of the Berlin museums, to the writing of Karl Friedrich von Rumohr. Together, Bode and Liphart were responsible for may re-attributions. In 1871, they independently recognized the similarities between etchings of Hercules Segers (c. 1589-c.1638) and a painting in the Ufizzi, establishing for the first time that Segers was a painter as well. Liphart helped establish Franz von Lenbach (1836-1904) in Florence, where Liphart lived.
Selected Bibliography
Notice historique sur un tableau de Raphaël repre´sentant Julien de Me´dicis, duc de Nemours. Paris: Imp. J. Claye, 1867; Portrait of Giuliano de' Medici, duc de Nemours, painted by Raphael Sanzio. Paris: C. Sedelmeyer, 1905.[collection auction:] Catalog der Kupferstichsammlung des Herrn Karl Eduard von Liphart in Florenz: Versteigerung zu Leipzig. Leipzig: C. G. Boerner, 1876.
Sources
Kultermann, Udo. The History of Art History. New York: Abaris, 1993, pp. 139.
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