BODE, WILHELM VON


Meaning of BODE, WILHELM VON in English

born Dec. 10, 1845, Calvrde, Prussian Saxony died March 1, 1929, Berlin, Ger. art critic and museum director who helped bring Berlin's museums to a position of worldwide eminence. Having studied art, Bode became an assistant at the Berlin Museum in 1872. In 1906 he was named general director of all the royal Prussian museums, a post he held until his retirement in 1920. He wrote books and essays on the decorative arts as well as on his particular specialtiesRembrandt, 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painting, and Italian Renaissance sculpture. He greatly influenced the American collectors J.P. Morgan, Henry Clay Frick, and Peter A.B. Widener.

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