Wilhelm von Bode: Quick Facts

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Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler

French art dealer and publisher

Curt Sachs

German musicologist

Okwui Enwezor

Nigerian-born art curator

Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon

French artist

Charles Locke Eastlake

British author

Okakura Kakuzō

Japanese art critic

Sir Charles Lock Eastlake

British painter

Wassily Kandinsky

Russian-born artist

Franz Boas

German-American anthropologist

Johann Winckelmann

German art historian

Adolf Bastian

German ethnologist

Erwin Panofsky

German-American art historian

Wilhelm Heinse

German writer

Philostratus the Younger

Greek author

John Ruskin

English writer and artist

William Morris

British artist and author

Lonnie G. Bunch III

American museum director

James McNeill Whistler

American artist

Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

American museum curator

Elaine de Kooning

American artist