LC control no. | n 79132431 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold, 1880-1958 |
Associated country | Germany United States |
Birth date | 1880-05-02 |
Death date | 1958-09-06 |
Found in | New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Hudson-Fulton celebration, 1909. Wikipedia, viewed August 22, 2014: (Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner; born 2 May 1880 in Karlsruhe; died 6 September 1958; art historian, art critic and musuem official; worked at the Kaiser Friedrich Museum and Kunstgewerbe Museum (1905-1907); was curator of the department of decorative arts in the Metropolitan Museum in New York City (1907-1914); was Director of the Detroit Museum which later became the Detroit Institute of Arts (1924-1925); was responsible for the series of murals painted by Diego Rivera; acquired U.S. citizenship in 1930; Director of the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh (1955-1958); <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Valentiner> |