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Friedrich Lippmann

Friedrich Lippmann

German art historian and director


Friedrich Lippmann (6 October 1838 in Prague 2 October 1903 in Berlin) was a German art historian and director of the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin State Museums, noted for his work on Dürer, Holbein and Italian 15th-century woodcuts. Max Jakob Friedländer, who was later to become a noted scholar of Early Netherlandish painting and the Northern Renaissance, worked under Lippmann in 1891 as a volunteer assisting with Lippmann's graphics collection.[1][2]

Selected publications

  • Zeichnungen von Albrecht Dürer (Berlin: G. Grote, 18831929) [vols. 6-7 completed by Friedrich Winkler]
  • The Art of Wood-engraving in Italy in the Fifteenth Century, 3 vols. (London: B. Quaritch, 1888)

Other sources

Achenbach, S. (1996). Das Berliner Kupferstichkabinett und die französische Kunst unter Friedrich Lippmann und Max Lehrs.


References

  1. Sorensen, Lee, ed. "Lippmann, Friedrich ." Dictionary of Art Historians. Accessed 13 Feb 2019 http://www.arthistorians.info/ lippmannf
  2. Royal Academy of Arts: Friedrich Lippmann (1838 - 1903) RA Collection: People and Organisations Accessed 13 Feb 2019 https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/friedrich-lippmann

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