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Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold, 1880-1958

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Personal name headingValentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold, 1880-1958
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Associated countryGermany
United States
Birth date1880-05-02
Death date1958-09-06
Found inNew 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);
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