Buddhistische Plastik in Japan Buddhistische Plastik in Japan Bis in Den Beginn Des 8. Jahrhunderts N. Chr. Tafelband & Textband. East-Asianist art historian and museum curator, Strzygowski student, dismissed by Nazis, later taught at UCLA. After brief periods of study at Munich and Freiburg, With met and assisted Karl Ernst Osthaus (q.v.), who later founded the Folkwang-Museum in Hagen, at the Museum für Kunst in Handel und Gewerbe in 1911. The next year he began studies with Josef Strzygowski (q.v.) at the University of Vienna where he specialized in Asian art. His dissertation in 1918 was on Buddhist sculpture in Japan. He acted as director of the Folkwang Museum 1919-21 and as curator for the collection of Baron von der Heyt in Amsterdam 1920-23. In 1928 Konrad Adenauer, then mayor of Cologne, appointed him director of the Kunstgewerbe-Museum of that city. Dismissed from his post by the Nazis in 1933 and singled out in the infamous "Enartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) exhibition of 1937 as a "literary pimp" of the degenerate forms of art, Baron von der Heydt once again hired him in 1936 to purchase Asian and African art in Ascona. In 1939 With emigrated to the U.S. where, with one exception, he spent the remainder of his life. Superbe abb. von Buddha Gesten. ( Dictionary of art historians) l Kunstverlag Anton Schroll. Wien 1919. 224 Tafeln. Textband 203 S. Ln. Sehr gut erhalten.