In 1820 King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia decided to have a selection made of the principal Old Masters that had been collected by his ancestors as far back as the Great Elector, and which were kept in the palaces and castles at Berlin, Potsdam, and Charlottenburg.
GustavFriedrichWaagen, the early German art student, who had been commissioned with the selection, chose three hundred and seventy-eight paintings, to which were added seventy-three from the Giustiniani Collection of one hundred and fifty-seven paintings which had been bought in Paris in 1815 for 540,000 francs.
The opening of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, in 1904, was the occasion for the gift of the James Simon collection of a number of selected early Italian and early Netherland works, and of the Adolf Thiem collection of seventeenth century Dutch art.
When Friedrich Gilly returned from his Studienreise a close friendship developed between the two men, and by 1799 Schinkel was living in the Gilly household, using the library the young Gilly had assembled on his trip and copying his drawings and projects.
The marshy ground on which it was built was still crisscrossed with dikes, canals with ramshackle wooden bridges, sentry boxes and vendors' stalls producing a rustic atmosphere hardly appropriate to its status as the capital of a rising state.
The scheme was to include a new palace with forecourt on the north with an Opera House and Academy of Science flanking a square on the opposite side of the avenue.
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WILHELM HEINRICH WAAGEN (1841-1900), German palaeontologist, was born at Munich on the 23rd of June 1841.
He was educated at Munich and Zurich, and through the influence of A. Oppel he commenced to study the rocks and fossils of the Jurassic system, and published an essay in 1865, Versuch einer Allgemeinen Classification der Schichten des oberen Jura.
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It was first displayed in the Picture Gallery in the “Royal Museum” next to the Lustgarten, which was designed by Schinkel and is currently known as the Altes Museum.
The gallery's first director, GustavFriedrichWaagen, gradually but systematically expanded the collection.
In 1904, the expanding collection was moved to the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, which was later named the Bode Museum.
A critical House of Commons Report in 1851 called for the appointment of a director, whose authority would surpass that of the trustees.
Many thought the position would go to the German art historian GustavFriedrichWaagen, whom the Gallery had consulted on previous occasions about the lighting and display of the collections.
However, the man preferred for the job by Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and the Prime Minister, Lord Russell, was the Keeper of Paintings at the Gallery, Sir Charles Lock Eastlake.
An important contribution to such codification in Britain was made by the German art historian, GustavFriedrichWaagen.
His praise of Rubens as a painter of nature led Waagen to invert the established association of Rubens and Poussin.
As a consequence, Rubens was extensively represented (by thirty-four works) in the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857 which Waagen curated with Charles Eastlake.
Boris Koehne, a numismatist by specialization and the head of the Gallery of Treasures, became the director's right-hand man. He made a serious study of the history of the collection and edited the catalogue of paintings prepared by Bruni's assistants in 1861-62.
This work made use of the comments of GustavFriedrichWaagen, the director of the Picture Gallery of the Berlin Museum, and one of Europe's leading experts in the field.
The catalogue was published in 1863, in three volumes in Russian and French, and in 1869-72 a revised and enlarged edition appeared.
Moreover, as Waagen specifies, the Barker Adoration was "formerly in the collection of Mr.
Coningham." The other Coningham tondo, seen and described by Waagen, Treasures, 1854: 3:3) in the collection of W. Fuller Maitland at Stansted Hall as a work by Filippino Lippi, is the London Botticelli, acquired from Maitland's son in 1878.
Italian Schools, London, 1913: 21, specifies that the panel was lot 42, there is no serious reason to doubt his assertion in spite of the alleged Acciaiuoli portraits.
326. WAAGEN, GustavFriedrich, Leonardo da Vinci (Berlin: Schauer [1861]).
A renowned connoisseur, Waagen distinguishes Leonardo's works from his students and followers and from those of Verrocchio and his studio.
Marx believes that he has discovered in the Kassel museum a fragment of the Caritas attributed to Leonardo, which had been admired by Goethe (1806) but lost after it was taken to France by one of Napoleon's generals.
They met Wilhelm von Schadow, the famous Nazarene painter and director of the Düsseldorf Academy, and GustavFriedrichWaagen, the great art historian.
She read "Overbeck on Greek art" in Munich in 1858 (Cross, II, 21) -- not Johann Friedrich Overbeck, the Nazarene painter, but Johannes Adolf Overbeck, author of Geschichte der Griechischen Plastik für Künstler und Kunstfreunde (1857-58).
It is impossible to know just when she acquired these books or when, if ever, she read them.
Grundlagen für die Kunstwissenschaft legten Karl Friedrich von Ruhmohr und GustavFriedrichWaagen.
Als Fachwissenschaft begründet wurde sie zum einen durch Historiker wie Jacob Burckhardt, Herman Grimm und Carl Justi begründet, die die Kunst in den allgemeinen Rahmen der Kulturgeschichte einbezogen.
Aus ihr entstanden die positivistische und kennerschaftliche Kunstgeschichte (Giovanni Morelli, Gottfried Semper) Eine dritte Wurzel der Kunstgeschichte kam aus der Philosophie und Ästhetik, vertreten durch Gustav Hotho, Karl Schnaase; auch viele spätere Kunsthistoriker studierten Kunstgeschichte und Philosophie (Heinrich Wölfflin, Aby Warburg).
Der Kunstbesitz des Großen Kurfürsten (1620 - 1688) und Friedrichs des Großen (1712 -1786) bildete den Grundstein der Sammlung.
Darunter befand sich eine Auswahl der 1815 in Paris angekauften Sammlung Vincenzo Giustianini mit Werken des italienischen Frühbarock und die 1821 erworbene Sammlung des englischen Kaufmanns Edward Solly.
Der erste Galeriedirektor GustavFriedrichWaagen hatte die Berliner Sammlung - erstmals in Europa - nach systematisch-wissenschaftlichen Kriterien geordnet und kontinuierlich erweitert.
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Treasures of art in Great Britain, being an account of the chief collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, illuminated MSS, &c., &c., by Dr Waagen; [translated from the German MS.