Wilhelm Bode and the Art Market

Joanna Smalcerz, Ph.D. (2017), University of Bern, is Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw and Associated Researcher at the University of Bern. Her research and publications focus on the nineteenth-century art market and collecting, the reception of Italian Renaissance art, and the nineteenth-century politics of cultural patrimony. She is the author of Smuggling the Renaissance: The Illicit Export of Artworks Out of Italy, 1861-1909 (Brill, 2020).

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: The Entanglement of Art Historical Scholarship, Connoisseurship and the Art Trade in the Late Nineteenth CenturyPart 1: Deploying Connoisseurship to Affect the Market1 Wilhelm Bode and His Loyal Lieutenants: The Trade in Dutch Pictures, 1879–1914Michael J. Ripps2 Wilhelm Bode and Charles Sedelmeyer in 1882–83: The Start of a Fateful RelationshipCatherine B. Scallen3 Wilhelm Bode and Johannes Vermeer: Creating a Taste and a MarketEsmée QuodbachPart 2: Navigating the Italian Marketplace through Networks of Dealers and Intermediaries4 Wilhelm Bode and the Italian Art Trade in Renaissance Sculpture: The Case of GenoaMichela Zurla5 Bardini and Beyond: Wilhelm Bode and the Art Dealers in FlorencePatrizia CappelliniPart 3: Art Advisory and Strategic Relationships with Collectors6 Some Remarks on Wilhelm Bode and the Art Market in Italy, 1880s–1909: The Cases of Pietro Foresti (1854–1926) and A. ChiesaFulvia Zaninelli7 Wilhelm Bode and the Collector Adalbert von LannaMichaela WatrelotPart 4: Bode’s Double Game8 The Spy of Venice: Gustav Ludwig and Wilhelm Bode between Art Market and Art ResearchMartin Gaier9 Wilhelm Bode and the Rise and Fall of the Grand-ducal Gallery of OldenburgSebastian Dohe and Malve Anna FalkIndex