| Admin/Biog History | Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929) was a German art historian and museum curator. In 1904 he became the first curator of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, which was renamed the Bode Museum in his honour. He wrote books and essays on the decorative arts, as well as more specialised publications concerning Rembrandt, 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painting, and Italian Renaissance sculpture. He greatly influenced the American collectors J.P. Morgan, Henry Clay Frick, and Peter A.B. Widener.
Records in the Simpson Archive shows that Bode gave expert opinions on various works of art for M. Knoedler & Co. |
| Description | Includes:
-three letters from Wilhelm von Bode dated 25 September-28 October 1910, concerning the possible purchase of pictures
-two copy letters from Bode, dated 7 and 11 February 1911, three copy letters from M.C.D. Borden, dated 11 November 1910 and 27 March 1911, and seven pages of typed notes concerning possible fraudulent paintings attributed to Rembrandt, Rubens, Metsu and Correggio
-two letters from Bode, dated 4 January and 8 October 1912, giving his opinion on various pictures
-pamhlet titled Kaufmann, S. (1926) Free English translation of an open letter to His Excellency von Bode, Berlin. Baden: Oskar Katz
-pamphlet titled Supplement to the open letter, undated
-cutting of a letter published in an unknown publication concerning Kaufmann's open letter to Bode, dated 29 September 1926 |