| LC control no. | n 79134885 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cohn, William, 1880-1961 |
| Birth date | 1880-06-22 |
| Death date | 1961-02-36 |
| Place of birth | Berlin (Germany) |
| Place of death | Oxford (England) |
| Field of activity | Art, East Asian |
| Affiliation | University of Oxford Ashmolean Museum |
| Profession or occupation | Art historians Sinologists College teachers |
| Found in | His Ostasiatische zeitschrift, 1912-13. Die alt-Buddhistische malerei Japans, 1921: title page (by William Cohen) Wikidata, April 4, 2022 (William Cohn; German-British art historian (1880-1961)) Wikipedia, German, April 4, 2022 (William Cohn (art historian); William Cohn (June 22, 1880 in Berlin--February 26, 1961 in Oxford) was a German-British art historian and sinologist; he studied art history and archeology in Berlin and Paris; in 1904 he received his doctorate at the University of Erlangen; in 1912, together with Otto Kümmel , he founded the East Asian Magazine as a specialist journal for East Asian art; from 1920-1923 he worked in the East Asian Art Department of the Berlin Museums; in 1929 he was appointed as curator at the Berlin Ethnological Museum; during this time he was also a lecturer at the Lessing University in Berlin; he and his wife moved to Great Britain in 1938 and became British citizens in 1947; he lectured on East Asian art at the University of Oxford and became an adviser to the Ashmolean Museum; in 1947 he founded the magazine Oriental Art, which he edited until 1951; in 1949 he created the Oxford Museum of Eastern Art from a neglected collection of Indian art objects; he retired in 1955) |
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