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Wilhelm Bode and the Art Market
Connoisseurship, Networking, and Control of the Marketplace
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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 Bodeâs 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.
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).
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Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Entanglement of Art Historical Scholarship, Connoisseurship and the Art Trade in the Late Nineteenth Century
1 Wilhelm Bode and His Loyal Lieutenants: The Trade in Dutch Pictures, 1879â1914
âMichael J. Ripps
2 Wilhelm Bode and Charles Sedelmeyer in 1882â83: The Start of a Fateful Relationship
âCatherine B. Scallen
3 Wilhelm Bode and Johannes Vermeer: Creating a Taste and a Market
âEsmée Quodbach
4 Wilhelm Bode and the Italian Art Trade in Renaissance Sculpture: The Case of Genoa
âMichela Zurla
5 Bardini and Beyond: Wilhelm Bode and the Art Dealers in Florence
âPatrizia Cappellini
6 Some Remarks on Wilhelm Bode and the Art Market in Italy, 1880sâ1909: The Cases of Pietro Foresti (1854â1926) and A. Chiesa
âFulvia Zaninelli
7 Wilhelm Bode and the Collector Adalbert von Lanna
âMichaela Watrelot
8 The Spy of Venice: Gustav Ludwig and Wilhelm Bode between Art Market and Art Research
âMartin Gaier
9 Wilhelm Bode and the Rise and Fall of the Grand-ducal Gallery of Oldenburg
âSebastian Dohe and Malve Anna Falk
Index
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, 1879â1914
âMichael J. Ripps
2 Wilhelm Bode and Charles Sedelmeyer in 1882â83: The Start of a Fateful Relationship
âCatherine B. Scallen
3 Wilhelm Bode and Johannes Vermeer: Creating a Taste and a Market
âEsmée 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
âMichela Zurla
5 Bardini and Beyond: Wilhelm Bode and the Art Dealers in Florence
âPatrizia Cappellini
Part 3: Art Advisory and Strategic Relationships with Collectors
6 Some Remarks on Wilhelm Bode and the Art Market in Italy, 1880sâ1909: The Cases of Pietro Foresti (1854â1926) and A. Chiesa
âFulvia Zaninelli
7 Wilhelm Bode and the Collector Adalbert von Lanna
âMichaela Watrelot
Part 4: Bodeâs Double Game
8 The Spy of Venice: Gustav Ludwig and Wilhelm Bode between Art Market and Art Research
âMartin Gaier
9 Wilhelm Bode and the Rise and Fall of the Grand-ducal Gallery of Oldenburg
âSebastian Dohe and Malve Anna Falk
Index
All interested in the history of art market and collecting, history of art history and history of taste.