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A Biographical Dictionary of Historic Scholars, Museum Professionals and Academic Historians of Art
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Sauerlandt, Max Date born: 1880 Place Born: Berlin, Germany Date died: 1934 Place died: Hamburg, Germany Modern art champion in Germany, succeeded Justus Brinckmann as director of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe. His early death at 54 was due to cancer. Martin Gosebruch pointed out in 1972 that Sauerlandt's standards for modern art were "extremely demanding." Sauerlandt described Lionel Feininger's talent as "extremely thin" and Impressionism as "sheer enrichment and refinement of portrayal" ("bloße Bereicherung und Verfeinerung der Darstellungsmittel") (Braunschweiger Zeitung 1972) Home Country: Germany Sources: Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. 337-39; Wendland, Ulrike. Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil: Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler. Munich: Saur, 1999, vol. 2, pp. 581- 586; Gosebruch, Martin. "Sauerlandt und Klähns Kunst." in Gädeke, Thomas, ed., Gosebruch, Martin. Wolfgang Klähn und die Krise der Mondern/Wolfgang Klähn and the Crisis of Modern Art. Leipzig: E. A. Seemann, 2007, p. 138. Bibliography: Subject's name: Max Sauerlandt |
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