Julius Samuel Held (1905–2002) was an art historian, collector, and expert on Dutch painters

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, Anthony van Dyck, and Rembrandt. He published several monographs and was a professor of art history at

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, from 1937–70.

Biography

Julius S. Held was born on April 15, 1905 to Adolf and Nannette Held, who ran a clothing store in Mosbach,

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, and earned his doctorate from the

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in 1930 with a dissertation on Albrecht Dürer. After the Nazi regime came to power in 1933, Held sought a way to emigrate. He arrived in the United States in 1934. In 1936, he married Ingrid-Marta Nordin-Petterson, an art conservator. The couple had two children. Held became professor of

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in 1937, a position he held until his retirement in 1970. Later in his life, he moved to Bennington,

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Works

Held wrote several monographs on Dutch painters including Rembrandt, Anthony van Dyck, and

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Worldcat

External links

* Julius S. Held Papers at the

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, Los Angeles, CA.
Guide to the Julius S. Held Family Collection
at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York, NY
Interview of Julius Held
at the UCLA Library’s Center for Oral History Research
Record for Julius S. Held
in the Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America at the Frick Collection

References

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