Dr. Marco M. Mascolo, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz-Max Planck Institut Medieval Sculpture at the Detroit Institute of Arts: The Role of Wilhelm R. Valentiner between Expressionism and Connoisseurship Collecting Medieval Sculpture - Ards Study Day Paris November 23rd-24th Musée du Louve – Paris www.ards.be

1. Medieval Sculpture at the Detroit Institute of Arts:
The Role of Wilhelm R. Valentiner between Expressionism and
Connoisseurship
Marco M. Mascolo
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut

3. Wilhelm R. Valentiner in the 1920s

4. Henry Thode
Valentiner’s doctoral dissertation,
published in 1905

5. Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (seated foreground) with his ex-assistants in The Hague, on the
occasion of the publication of the last volume of the Catalogue of the most eminent Dutch painters of the
XVII century, 1929. [Valentiner is the second from the left, standing ]

6. Wilhelm von Bode in the 1920s

7. Rembrandt, The Blinding of Samson, 1636, Frankfurt,
Städelsches Kunstinstitut
Valentiner wrote an article on this picture,
published in The Burlington Magazine, 1906

8. The Metropolitan
Museum, first years of
the twentieth century

9. Workshop of Anotnio Rossellino, Nativity.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
French Sculptor, Deposition. Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York.
Florentine Sculptor, San Giovannino
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

10. French sculptor, Saint Michael.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(from the Collection of G. Hoentschel)

12. A photograph of German soldiers
during the military training, 1915 ca.
(Valentiner is in the front raw)
Valentiner at his in the War Information Center,
Berlin, 1917

13. Bruno Taut (1880-1938)
Walter Gropius (1883-
1969)
Max Pechstein (1881-1955),
Self Portrait, 1920
Georg Kolbe (1877-1947),
Self Portrait, 1934

14. Max Pechstein (?), leaflet for the
Arbeitsrat, 1919
Cover of the book Ja! Stimmen des
Arbeitsrates für Kunst in Berlin, Berlin 1919

15. Hermann Bahr, Expressionismus, the first edition appeared in 1916 (4th edition, 1920).
The image reproduce an example of popular art echoing a medieval prototype

16. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884-1976) , Man with a Green Beard,
1920 ca., Detroit Institute of Arts
(Bequest of W.R. Valentiner)Georg Kolbe, Portrait of W.R. Valentiner,
1920, Harvard Art Museums/Busch-
Reisinger Museum

17. American Art News,
November 11th, 1922

18. 1923, ‘Art in America and Elsewhere’
Giovanni Pisano, Virgin with Child,
1314 ca. Berlin, Bodemuseum
Tino di Camaino, Virgin with Child, 1314 ca.
Turin, Museo Civico d’Arte Antica

19. Auguste Rodin, Prière, (at the Salon of 1910) Giovanni Pisano, Female Figure, 1280-85
ca. Pisa, Museo dell’Opera del Duomo

20. Georg Kolbe, Dancer, 1912
Georg Kolbe, Assunta, 1921

21. Auguste Rodin, Grosse Femme,
(presented at the Salon of 1911)
Georg Kolbe, Najade, 1912
Georg Kolbe, Torsoe, 1912
Auguste Rodin, Torse,
(presented at the
Salon of 1910)

22. Georg Kolbe, Assunta,
1921, Detroit Institute of Arts
Agostino di Giovanni,
Standing figure from the tomb of Cino da Pistoia,
1337-39, Pistoia, Cathedral

23. W.R. Valentiner, Tino di Camaino. A Sienese Sculptor of the Fourteenth
Century, The Pegasus Press, Paris 1935
Tino di Camaino, Annunciata,
1318-21 ca. Florence, Museo
dell’Opera di Santa Croce
Ernst Barlach, Woman
in Wind, 1931, Güstrow,
Gertrudenkapelle

24. The Detroit Institute of Arts in 1927
Edsel Ford (L) and his father Henry (R), ca. 1929

26. Oskar Kokoschka, The Elbe near Dresden,
1921, Detroit Institute of Arts (City of Detroit Purchase, 1921)

27. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the
Detroit Institute of Arts in 1938
Giovanni di Balduccio, Madonna and Child
Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts

28. Rembrandt, The Visitation, 1640.
Detroit Institute of Arts,
purchased in 1927 as a city
acquisition

29. Giovanni di Balduccio
Agostino di Giovanni
Nino Pisano
Tino di Camaino

30. Emil Nolde, Sunflowers, 1932
Detroit Institute of Arts
(Gift of Robert H. Tannahill)
Max Pechstein, Under the Trees, 1911
Detroit Institute of Arts
(City of Detroit purchase, 1921)

31. W.R. Valentiner, Origins of Modern Sculpture,
New York 1946
A page with the sculptures by Henri Gaudier-
Brzeska, Portrait of Ezra Pound (1914), top
Agostino di Giovanni, Cino da Pistoia (detail),
1337-39, middle
Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Baudelaire (1911),
bottom