{{Infobox scholar | name = Julius S. Held | other_names = Julius S. Held | birth_date = {{Birth date|1905|4|15|df=yes}} | birth_place = Mosbach, Germany | death_date = {{death date and age|2002|12|22|1905|4|15|df=yes}} | death_place = Bennington, Vermont, U.S. | alma_mater = University of Freiburg | main_interests = Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Anthony van Dyck | workplaces = Barnard College }}
'''Julius Samuel Held''' (1905–2002) was an art historian, collector, and expert on Dutch painters Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Rembrandt. He published several monographs and was a professor of art history at Barnard College, Columbia University, from 1937 to 1970.<ref name="Johnson">{{cite news|last=Johnson|first=Ken|title=Julius Held, 97, Art Historian and Expert on Rembrandt and Rubens|work=The New York Times|page=7|date=13 January 2003|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/13/arts/julius-held-97-art-historian-and-expert-on-rembrandt-and-rubens.html}}</ref>
==Biography== Julius S. Held was born on April 15, 1905, to Adolf and Nannette Held, who ran a clothing store in Mosbach, Germany.<ref name="ReferenceA">Genealogical tables, circa 1990; Julius S. Held Family Collection; AR 25002; box 1; folder 2; Leo Baeck Institute.</ref> He attended university in Freiburg, Heidelberg, Berlin, and Vienna, and earned his doctorate from the University of Freiburg in 1930 with a dissertation on Albrecht Dürer. After the Nazi regime came to power in 1933, Held sought a way to emigrate. He arrived in the United States in 1934. In 1936, he married Ingrid-Marta Nordin-Petterson, an art conservator. The couple had two children.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
Held became professor of art history at Columbia University's Barnard College in New York City in 1937, a position he held until his retirement in 1970. Later in his life, he moved to Bennington, Vermont, where he died in 2002.<ref>[http://arthistorians.info/heldj Held, Julius Samuel. Dictionary of Art Historians.]</ref>
==Works== Held wrote several monographs on Dutch painters including Rembrandt, Anthony van Dyck, and Peter Paul Rubens. These works can be found by searching for Julius S. Held on [http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=affiliate&ai=Frick_jushean&q=Held,+Julius+S.+%28Julius+Samuel%29,+1905-2002 Worldcat].
== See also == * Julius S. Held Collection of Rare Books
==External links== * Julius S. Held Papers at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA. * [http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=476069 Guide to the Julius S. Held Family Collection] at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York, NY * [http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewFile.do?itemId=29986&fileSeq=3&xsl=http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/xslt/local/tei/xml/tei/stylesheet/xhtml2/tei.xsl Interview of Julius Held] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130723210414/http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewFile.do?itemId=29986&fileSeq=3&xsl=http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/xslt/local/tei/xml/tei/stylesheet/xhtml2/tei.xsl |date=2013-07-23 }} at the UCLA Library’s Center for Oral History Research * [http://research.frick.org/directoryweb/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=6710 Record for Julius S. Held] in the Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America at the Frick Collection
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