GROUSSET, René Jean François Marie. Aubais (Gard) 5.9.1885 — Paris 12.11(9?).1952. French Historian of Asia. Lost his father before birth (Louis-Xavier-René Grousset 1860–1885, historian and poet). After history studies at Montpellier moved to Paris and started Museum work. Participated in the WW I as sergeant and was seriously wounded in…
GROSLIER, Bernard-Philippe. Phnom Penh 10.5.1926 — Paris 29.5.1986. French Archaeologist and Historian of South-East Asia. A specialist of Cambodia, but also wrote on Gandhāra art (1951). Son of Georges Groslier (1887–1945), the founder and first curator of the Museum of Phnom Penh, and Suzanne Cecile Poujade. Born in Cambodia he…
GRIFFITHS, John. Llanfair Caereinion, Montgomeryshire, Powys 29.11.1837 — Norton, Sherborne 1.12.1918. British (Welsh) Artist in India. Son of Evan Griffiths and Mary Evans, lost early his father and grew up with his uncle in Llanfair. Educated at Royal College of Arts, then served in South Kensington Museum (future Victoria and…
GRAY, Basil. South Kensington, London 21.7.1904 — Oxford 10.6.1989. British Art Historian specialized in Indian, Iranian, and Chinese Art. Son of Charles Gray (1834–1915), an army surgeon, and Florence Elworthy Cowell (1867–1956), educated at Bradfield School. Graduated 1927 from Oxford (New College), then studied briefly under Strzygowski at Vienna. In…
GOLOUBEW, Victor (Viktor Viktorovič Golubev). St.Petersburg 12.2.1878 — Hanoi 19.4.1945. Russian Art Historian in France. Born in a Crimean aristocratic family, son of engineer Viktor Fëdorovič Golubev (1842–1903) and Anna Petrovna Losev. In 1896-1900 studies of engineering in St.Petersburg, but was also led to history and archaeology by M. I.…
GOETZ, Hermann. Karlsruhe 17.7.1898 — Heidelberg 8.7.1976. German Art Historian, long time in India. Son of Hermann Goetz (1848–1901), an artist and director of Badische Landeskunstschule. Gymnasium in Munich. Studies of art history at Munich. Ph.D. 1923 Munich. In 1926-31 in Berlin, then 1931-36 at Kern Institute in Leiden as…
GODARD, Yedda (née Reuilly). Paris 26.1.1889 — Paris 4.8.1976. French Artist, the Wife and Assistant of —> André Godard (1881–1965). Painter (watercolourist) and student at École de Louvre and É.L.O.V., married soon after the WW I. Together with her husband in Afghanistan (where she copied Bamiyan paintings) and Iran. Publications: With…
GODARD, André. Chaumont (Haute-Marne) 21.1.1881 — Paris 31.7./2.8.1965. French Architect and Archaeologist of the Near East, Afghanistan and Iran. Studies of architecture and archaeology at École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After graduating as an architect he went to the East in 1910. Directed two years building works in Baghdad, also…
GIORDANO, Ferruccio Ducrey, conte. Turin 3.10.1928 — 8.7.1976. Italian Art Historian interested in Indology. Born of a Piemontese noble family, studied in Germany and England. Professionally he was a businessman, who managed the family estate, the Associazione laniera, etc. Several travels to the East made him interested in life, religion…
GETTY, Alice. Muskegon, Mich. 1865 — New York 12.6.1946. U.S. Art Historian. The only child of Henry H. Getty (1838–1920), a rich businessman (“lumber baron”), and Carrie Eliza Anderson (d. 1890). The family travelled much and she was educated by tutors. After his wife’s death the father retired from business…