DIMAND, Maurice Sven. Vienna, Austria 2.8.1892 — 13.9.1986. U.S. (Austrian-born) Art Historian. Son of William Dimand and Betty Rosengren. Studies at Vienna, Ph.D. 1916 (under Strzygowski, diss. on Coptic tapestries). In 1916-18 Research assistant in Institute Fine Arts, Vienna. Came to the U.S.A. in 1923, naturalized 1931. From 1923 Assistant, 1925 Assistant Curator, 1930 Curator of Islamic Art in Metropolitan Museum of Art, emeritus. Married 1924 Avis E. Wood.
Publications: “The Emperor Jahangir, connoisseur of paintings”, Bull. Metropol. Museum N.S. 2:6, 1943, 196-200; “Mughal Painting under Akbar the Great”, Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin N.S. 12, 1953, 46-51; other articles.
– Indian Miniature Painting. 31 p. 16 pl. Milan 1959.
– Much on Near Eastern and Persian art.
Sources: prabook.com.