Wurtzburger, Alan |
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Collector |
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dates
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1900-1963 |
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city
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Baltimore |
| state | MD | | other cities | Pikesville, MD; |
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sex
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historical notes
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Alan Wurtzburger was a real estate investor and art collector. Together with his wife, Janet (1908-1973), he collected Nineteenth-century and Contemporary sculpture, African, Oceanic, and Ancient American art.
Their Nineteenth-century and Contemporary sculpture collection included work by, among others, Max Bill, Henry Moore, Émile Antoine Bourdelle, Alexander Calder, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Jabov Epstein, Pablo Gargallo, Gaston Lachaise, Henri Laurens, Jacques Lipschitz, Giacomo Manzu, Gerhard Marcks, Marino Marini, Isamu Noguchi, Germaine Richier, François-Auguste-René Rodin, Fritz Wotruba, and Ossip Sadkine.
The Wurtzburgers gave their first gift to the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) in 1955 with 136 African Art objects. Over 423 African, Oceanic and pre-Columbian art objects from the Wurtzburger collection were given to the BMA.
In 1958 the BMA’s Wurtzburger Gallery of the Primitive Arts opened, followed by the Alan and Janet Wurtzburger Gallery for the Arts of Africa, the Americans and Oceania in 1982, and finally the Janet and Alan Wurtzburger Sculpture Garden in 1980.
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decades
of activity | 1950-1960
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Archives/Repository |
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Collection Details |
Baltimore Museum of Art
The E. Kirkbride Miller Art Research Library |
Alan and Janet Wurtzburger Papers 1955-1969 |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Oral history interview with Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, 1974 June 27. |
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The Museum of Modern Art
Library and Archives |
John B. Hightower papers, 1968-1972. |
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