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Woltmann, Alfred

    Full Name: Woltmann, Alfred

    Gender: male

    Date Born: 1841

    Date Died: 1880

    Place Born: Berlin, Germany

    Place Died: Mentone, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

    Home Country/ies: Germany


    Overview

    In 1871, Woltmann was among the team of art historians (the others including Moritz Thausing, Carl von Lützlow, Adolf von Bayersdorfer, Friedrich Lippmann, Wilhelm Lübke, Bruno Meyer, Karl Woermann, G. Malsz and Wilhelm Bode who convened in Dresden to determine which of two versions of Hans Holbein the younger’s Meyer Madonna was the autograph work. The so-called “Holbein convention,” one of the important events in nineteenth-century art history when many methodical approaches were employed to determined authenticity, concluded that the Darmstadt version was the original.


    Selected Bibliography

    Entstehung und Ausbildung des gotischen Stils, 1872. Vol. V of Geschichte der Bildenden Künste. 2nd ed. 8 vols. Stuttgart: Ebner & Seubert, 1866-79; and Meyer, Bruno, and Görling, Adolph. Deutschlands Kunstschätze: eine Sammlung der hervorragendsten Bilder Berliner, Dresdner, Münchner, Wiener, Casseler und Braunschweiger Galerien. 4 vols. Leipzig: A.H. Payne, 1871-1872, English, Art Treasures of Germany. A Collection of the Most Important Pictures of the Galleries of Dresden, Cassel, Brunswick, Berlin, Munich and Vienna. Boston: S. Walker & Co., 1873


    Sources

    Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. 490-3; Kultermann, Udo. The History of Art History. New York: Abaris, 1993, p. 145.




    Citation

    "Woltmann, Alfred." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/woltmanna/.


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