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See also:WAAGEN, GUSTAV See also:FRIEDRICH (1794-1868) , See also:German See also:art historian, was See also:born in See also:Hamburg, the son of a painter and See also:nephew of the poet See also:Ludwig See also:Tieck. Having passed through the See also:college
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of Hirschberg, he volunteered for service in the See also:Napoleonic See also:campaign of 183–18'4, and on his return attended the lectures at See also:Breslau University. He devoted himself to the study of art, which he pursued in the See also:great See also:European galleries, first in See also:Germany, then in See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland and See also:Italy. A pamphlet on the See also:brothers See also:Van See also:Eyck led to his See also:appointment to the directorship of the newly founded See also:Berlin Museum in 1832. The result of a See also:journey to See also:London and See also:Paris was an important publication in three volumes, Kunstwerke and Kunstler in See also:England and Paris (Berlin, 1837–1839), which became the basis for his more important The Treasures of Art in Great See also:Britain (London, 1854 and 1857). In '844 he was appointed See also:professor of art See also:history at the Berlin University, and in '861 he was called to St See also:Petersburg as adviser in the arranging and naming of the pictures in the imperial collection. On his return he published a See also:book on the Hermitage collection (See also:Munich, 1864). Among his other publications are some essays on See also:Rubens, See also:Mantegna and See also:Signorelli; Kunstwerke and Kunstler in Deutschland and See also:Die vornehmsten Kunstdenkmdler in Wien. He died on a visit to See also:Copenhagen in 1868. In the See also:light of more See also:recent See also:research his writings are not of much value as regards trustworthy See also:criticism, though they are useful as catalogues of art treasures in private collections at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time when they were compiled. His opinions were greatly respected in England, where he was invited to give See also:evidence before the royal See also:commission inquiring into the See also:condition and future of the See also:National See also:Gallery.
End of Article: WAAGEN, GUSTAV FRIEDRICH (1794-1868)
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