Christie’s to auction long-lost painting by Mannerist artist Spranger (Q115417540)
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| English | Christie’s to auction long-lost painting by Mannerist artist Spranger |
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Christie’s to auction long-lost painting by Mannerist artist Spranger (English)
Catherine Hickley
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4 October 2017
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Born in Leipzig in 1879, Glaser was an art historian and medical doctor who served in the military in the First World War. He was appointed director of the Prussian State Art Library in Berlin in 1924 and became one of the most distinguished art historians and journalists of the Weimar Republic. A significant patron and collector of Modern art, Glaser counted Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner among his friends.As a Jew and champion of “degenerate” art, Glaser was forced out of his post when the Nazis came to power in 1933 and his home was confiscated. He was also compelled to sell his art collection, personal library and home furnishings at two auctions. The Spranger painting was acquired by Wolfgang Gurlitt, an art dealer and the cousin of the Nazi-era art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt. Glaser fled Germany, ending up in New York, where he lived until his death in 1943. (English)