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Lilienfeld, Karl, b. 1885 print view role Dealer/Gallery dates 1885-1966 city New York City state NY other cities Leipzig, Germany; Cademario, Switzerland; sex M historical notes Karl Lilienfeld was a historian of Netherlandish art and gallery dealer. Lilienfeld studied at the universities of Leipzig and Halle and Berlin where he studied under Adolf Goldschmidt (q.v.). He moved to the Hague where he worked as the assistant the eminent private art historian, Hofstede de Groot (q.v.) in Amsterdam. He collaborated Hofstede on a revision of John Smith’s 1829 Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, known as the Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis. In 1911 he became the assistant director of the Royal Gallery in the Hague. His volumes for the Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis (volume 5) began appearing in 1912. He authored numerous entries for the Künstler-Lexikon of Ulrich Thieme (q.v.) and Felix Becker (q.v.). That same year Lilienfeld returned to Leipzig to head the modern art department of the Kunstverein (museum). In 1914 he published a monograph on the Netherlandish painter, Arent de Gelder: sein Leben und seine Kunst. The same year he assisted authoring the text for a catalog of the art collection of brewer Josef W. J. Cremer (1845-1938) with Hermann Voss (q.v.). Following World War I, he became a dealer of 17th-century Dutch art. He married Margarete Pohl. In 1925 he moved to New York joining Van Diemen Galleries. The gallery represented a range of art periods and styles including Tiepolo and French Impressions. The gallery was later renamed Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries. His nephew, Horst Gerson (q.v.), was also an art historian who studied under Hofstede de Groot. decades of activity 1910-1920 1920-1930 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 1960-1970 updated 10/31/2024 13:33:19 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Delaware Art Museum Helen Farr Sloan Library Walter Pach Papers see details... National Gallery of Art, Image Collection 2000B South Club Drive Dealer Photo Archives: Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries see details... Houghton Library Harvard Yard, Harvard University Lyonel Feininger Papers, 1883-1960 see details... Harvard Art Museum Archives 32 Quincy Street Paul J. Sachs Papers, 1903-2005. see details... see also: Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries «  back