| LC control no. | n 79137105 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Selz, Peter, 1919-2019 |
| Variant(s) | Selz, Peter Howard, 1919-2019 Selz, Hans Peter, 1919-2019 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Berkeley (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1919-03-27 |
| Death date | 2019-06-21 |
| Place of birth | Munich (Germany) |
| Place of death | Albany (Calif.) |
| Affiliation | University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley. University Art Museum University of California, Berkeley. University Art Gallery Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) |
| Profession or occupation | Art historians Art museum curators Art museum directors College teachers |
| Found in | His German expressionist painting, 1957. His Sam Francis, 1982: CIP t.p. (Peter Selz) New York times WWW site, viewed July 1, 2019 (in obituary published June 28: Peter Selz; b. Hans Peter Selz, Mar. 27, 1919, Munich; left Germany in 1936 on his own and went to America through the help of family members who owned the Rheingold brewery in Brooklyn; d. June 21, Albany, Calif., aged 100; had lived in a Modernist house in Berkeley for more than 50 years before recently moving to nearby Albany; as a leading curator at the Museum of Modern Art, staged wide-ranging exhibitions of Mark Rothko's paintings and Auguste Rodin's sculptures before leaving to become the founding director of the University Art Museum, Berkeley) |
| Associated language | eng |
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