Friedrich Lippmann (6 October 1838 in

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– 2 October 1903 in

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) 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 Max Jakob Friedländer (5 July 1867 in Berlin – 11 October 1958 in Amsterdam) was a German-Jewish museum curator and art historian. He was a specialist in Early Netherlandish painting and the Northern Renaissance, who volunteered at the Kupfers ...

, who was later to become a noted scholar of

Early Netherlandish painting Early Netherlandish painting is the body of work by artists active in the Burgundian Netherlands, Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands during the 15th- and 16th-century Northern Renaissance period, once known as the Flemish Primitives. It flour ...

and the

Northern Renaissance The Northern Renaissance was the Renaissance that occurred in Europe north of the Alps, developing later than the Italian Renaissance, and in most respects only beginning in the last years of the 15th century. It took different forms in the vari ...

, worked under Lippmann in 1891 as a volunteer assisting with Lippmann's graphics collection.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

Selected publications

* ''Zeichnungen von Albrecht Dürer'' (Berlin: G. Grote, 1883–1929) ols. 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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lippmann, Friedrich German art historians 1838 births 1903 deaths People from the Austrian Empire Artists from Prague German Bohemian people