{{Short description|German entrepreneur and art collector}} {{One source|date=July 2021}} '''Manfred H. Grieb''' (6 February 1933 – 20 February 2012) what a German entrepreneur and art collector as well as the editor of the ''Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon''.
== Life == Born in Würzburg, Grieb completed a commercial apprenticeship from 1947 to 1950 and learned foreign languages at language institutes and as a guest student at the University of Würzburg. From 1951 to 1969 he worked as an employed merchant in Germany and South America. In 1969 he started self-employment with a small chain of shops and a printing shop for greeting cards, gift articles, stationery and others (company "karten-vitrine").
After the sale of his company in 1992, he worked as an art collector (Nuremberg city views) and gallery owner. ("Fränkische Bilder-Galerie Grieb & Popp OHG") and worked on the four-volume ''Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon'' with over 20,000 entries, which quickly became a standard work on the history of the city of Nuremberg after its publication in 2007. The work is also criticized for its omissions among artists with a National Socialist past.<ref>Max Gnugesser-Mair: [http://www.nazistopp-nuernberg.de/download/1602_Kuenstlerlexikon_Fassung__6_2_2016_Layout_15.02.2016.pdf ''Kritik an der geschönten und verkürzten Darstellung zahlreicher Künstlerbiografien der Nazizeit im Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon''], 2016</ref>
In 1996 Grieb became a member of the Pegnesischer Blumenorden. From 2000 to 2008 he was its vice-president, and in 2007 he was awarded the Cross of Honour of the Blumenorden for this. In 2009 he founded a support association for the establishment of a cultural history museum in Nuremberg.<ref>[http://www.blumenorden.de/data/_uploaded/archiv/Nachrichten65.htm Nachrichten] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029193635/http://www.blumenorden.de/data/_uploaded/archiv/Nachrichten65.htm |date=2013-10-29 }}, Blumenorden, 2012.</ref> Grieb died in Nuremberg at age 79. He was buried at the Johannisfriedhof in Nürnberg.
== Publications == * (Editor): ''Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon''. Bildende Künstler, Kunsthandwerker, Gelehrte, Sammler, Kulturschaffende und Mäzene vom 12. bis zur Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts. 4 volumes, Saur, Munich 2007, {{ISBN|978-3-598-11763-3}}.
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