Julius S. Held Family Collection 1800-1999

This collection documents the family history of art historian Julius S. Held (1905-2002), who was born in Mosbach, Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1934. The bulk of the collection consists of personal family correspondence. Other materials include genealogical tables, a few business and educational records, personal notes, a few anti-Semitic flyers, clippings, a ketubah, and a portrait of Rabbi David Sinzheim.Julius S. Held (1905-2002) was born in Mosbach, Germany. He attended the Universities of Freiburg, Heidelberg, Berlin, and Vienna, and received his doctoral degree from the University of Freiburg in 1930. He immigrated to the United States in 1934, where he became a collector and highly respected scholar of art history. He married the art conservator Ingrid-Marta (alternatively Ingrid-Märta) Nordin-Petterson in 1936, and the couple had two children. Considered an expert on Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Rembrandt, Julius S. Held published several monographs and held a position as a professor of art history at Barnard College, Columbia University, from 1937-1970.Inventory in filePhotographs removed to Photograph CollectiondigitizedAFTER ENCAPSULATION; COPY STILL IN FOLDER]; article in "Israelitisches Gemeindeblatt, 24 June 1937, "Wie verbinde ich den juedischen Stoff mit dem allgemeinen in der Heimatkunde des 3. Schuljahres?" written by Lies Behr (1898-1993