Tietze, Hans / Ruhemann, H. (editor) / Hendry, Philip (consultant editor).

Genuine and False – Copies, Imitations, Forgeries. Seventy-Three Reproductions in Colour and Monochrome Printed in Photogravure.

London, Max Parrish & Co Limited, 1948. 19 cm x 25.3 cm. 80 pages. 8 colour plates and 56 monochrome plates. Hardcover [publisher’s original tanned cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Fading to spine and boards. Minor fraying to cloth at head and tail of spine. Leaf edges show minor browing but interior otherwise bright and clean.

Includes, for example, the following: Forgeries were made at all times / The Counterfeiter’s Weapons / The Expert’s Counter-measures / The Forger’s Triumph / The Forger’s Unmasking and Condemnation / Conclusion etc.

Hans Tietze (May 1, 1880 in Prague – April 4, 1954 in New York City) was an Austrian art historian and member of the Vienna School of Art History.
In 1909, Tietze was appointed lecturer in art history at the University of Vienna. After World War I he became assistant professor and began editing the art journal, Die bildenden Künste. In 1913, he published his Methode der Kunstgeschichte, which “attempted to summarize the basic principles of the evolutionist methodological project developed by Franz Wickhoff and Alois Riegl and articulated explicitly by Max Dvorák.” From 1923 to 1925, Tietze helped reorganizing Vienna’s traditional art museum system into a more popular and pedagogical one. For instance, he combined the print collection of the Hofbibliothek into the Albertina collection and created the Belvedere galleries, consisting of the baroque museum, the 19th-century museum and the 20th-century art museum. He also wrote radio broadcasts on art.
In 1932 and 1935, Tietze was a visiting lecturer in the USA. After the annexation of Austria by the Nazis in 1938, he and his wife went to London and then to the United States, where he was appointed visiting professor at the Toledo Museum of Art in 1938–39. In 1940, he settled as a private scholar in New York City, where he wrote introductions to some museum catalogs and “great art” surveys for the general public.
Among his students in Vienna were Ernst Gombrich, Otto Kurz and Fritz Grossmann.
(Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Art · Art and Society · Art History · Catalogue Four – International Art · Criticism · History · Inanna Modern – Art Books · Painters · Painting · Portrait painting
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120287AB

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