Selz, Peter, 1919-2019

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Name (Latin)
Selz, Peter, 1919-2019
Other forms of name
Selz, Hans Peter, 1919-2019
Selz, Peter Howard, 1919-2019
Selz, Peter, 1919-
Selz, Peter Howard, 1919-
Date of birth
1919-03-27
Date of death
2019-06-21
Associated country
United States
Occupation
Art museum curators
Art museum directors
College teachers
Art historians
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 108632298
Wikidata: Q2078300
Library of congress: n 79137105
Sources of Information
  • His German expressionist painting, 1957.
  • His Sam Francis, 1982:CIP t.p. (Peter Selz)
  • New York times WWW site, viewed July 1, 2019(in obituary published June 28: Peter Selz; b. Hans Peter Selz, Mar. 27, 1919, Munich; left Germany in 1936 on his own and went to America through the help of family members who owned the Rheingold brewery in Brooklyn; d. June 21, Albany, Calif., aged 100; had lived in a Modernist house in Berkeley for more than 50 years before recently moving to nearby Albany; as a leading curator at the Museum of Modern Art, staged wide-ranging exhibitions of Mark Rothko's paintings and Auguste Rodin's sculptures before leaving to become the founding director of the University Art Museum, Berkeley)
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