Wilhelm Bode and the Art Market

Connoisseurship, Networking and Control of the Marketplace
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52190-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 695 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets

The professional career and success of Wilhelm Bode (1845-1929) relied on the business of connoisseurship. Like other contemporary art historians involved in the commerce of art, he was entangled in the reciprocal dynamics and interdependencies of the nascent discipline of art history, connoisseurship and the art trade. The volume introduces new material and a fresh perspective on Bode’s strategic participation in the Western art market, exposing the particular consequences of these entanglements on the birth of the art historical canon and showcasing his complex agency within the art marketplace of the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Smalcerz, Joanna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: The Entanglement of Art Historical Scholarship, Connoisseurship and the Art Trade in the Late Nineteenth Century

Part 1: Deploying Connoisseurship to Affect the Market

1 Wilhelm Bode and His Loyal Lieutenants: The Trade in Dutch Pictures, 1879–1914

Michael J. Ripps

2 Wilhelm Bode and Charles Sedelmeyer in 1882–83: The Start of a Fateful Relationship

Catherine B. Scallen

3 Wilhelm Bode and Johannes Vermeer: Creating a Taste and a Market

Esmée Quodbach

Part 2: Navigating the Italian Marketplace through Networks of Dealers and Intermediaries

4 Wilhelm Bode and the Italian Art Trade in Renaissance Sculpture: The Case of Genoa

Michela Zurla

5 Bardini and Beyond: Wilhelm Bode and the Art Dealers in Florence

Patrizia Cappellini

Part 3: Art Advisory and Strategic Relationships with Collectors

6 Some Remarks on Wilhelm Bode and the Art Market in Italy, 1880s–1909: The Cases of Pietro Foresti (1854–1926) and A. Chiesa

Fulvia Zaninelli

7 Wilhelm Bode and the Collector Adalbert von Lanna

Michaela Watrelot

Part 4: Bode’s Double Game

8 The Spy of Venice: Gustav Ludwig and Wilhelm Bode between Art Market and Art Research

Martin Gaier

9 Wilhelm Bode and the Rise and Fall of the Grand-ducal Gallery of Oldenburg

Sebastian Dohe and Malve Anna Falk

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joanna Smalcerz, Ph.D. (2017), University of Bern, is Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw and Associated Researcher at the University of Bern. Her research and publications focus on the nineteenth-century art market and collecting, the reception of Italian Renaissance art, and the nineteenth-century politics of cultural patrimony. She is the author of Smuggling the Renaissance: The Illicit Export of Artworks Out of Italy, 1861-1909 (Brill, 2020).