Wilhelm Bode and the Art Market : : Connoisseurship, Networking and Control of the Marketplace.

• Superior document: Studies in the History of Collecting and Art Markets
• Author: Smalcerz, Joanna.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the History of Collecting and Art Markets
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 pages)

"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 Bode's 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 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 -- Chapter 1 Wilhelm Bode and his Loyal Lieutenants: The Trade in Dutch Pictures, 1879-1914 -- Chapter 2 Wilhelm Bode and Charles Sedelmeyer in 1882-83: The Start of a Fateful Relationship -- Chapter 3 Wilhelm Bode and Johannes Vermeer: Creating a Taste and a Market -- Part 2 Navigating the Italian Marketplace through Networks of Dealers and Intermediaries -- Chapter 4 Wilhelm Bode and the Italian Art Trade in Renaissance Sculpture: The Case of Genoa -- Chapter 5 Bardini and Beyond: Wilhelm Bode and the Art Dealers in Florence -- Part 3 Art Advisory and Strategic Relationships with Collectors -- Chapter 6 Some Remarks on Wilhelm Bode and the Art Market in Italy, 1880s-1909: The Cases of Pietro Foresti (1854-1926) and A. Chiesa -- Chapter 7 Wilhelm Bode and the Collector Adalbert von Lanna -- Part 4 Bode's Double Game -- Chapter 8 The Spy of Venice: Gustav Ludwig and Wilhelm Bode between Art Market and Art Research -- Chapter 9 Wilhelm Bode and the Rise and Fall of the Grand-ducal Gallery of Oldenburg -- Index.