OLLONE, Henri Marie Gustave, vicomte d’. Besançon 4.9.1868 — Lorp-Sentaraille (Ariège) 7.10.1945. French Officer and Explorer. General. Son of Ernest François d’Ollone (1833–1896) and Marie Adelaide d’Amandre. Military education at Saint-Cyr, in 1895 participted in Madagascar campaign. Then served in West Africa (defining the border of Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia).…
NUSSBAUM, Louis-Frédéric Emmanuel (nom-de-plume Louis Frédéric). Paris 17.12.1923 —Quincy-sous-Sénart near Paris 24.11.1996. French Artist, Art Historian and Writer. Worked as illustrator, travelled in North Africa. Interested in Asia he studied at Sorbonne and É.P.H.É. Did not enter academic career and remained free author. Several visits to Asia, took numerous photographs.…
MAMMITZSCH, Ulrich Hans Richard. Rodishain, Thuringia 15.12.1935 — Bellingham, Wash. 19.11.1990. U.S. (German-born) Sinologist and Scholar of Tibetan and Japanese Buddhism. Son of Hans Richard Mammitzsch and his wife Helene. After school of Frankesche Stiftung studied at Halle, in 1957 escaped from East Germany to West and continued studies at Hamburg…
HAENISCH, Erich. Berlin 27.8.1880 — Stuttgart 21.12.1966. German Sinologist and Mongolist. Professor. Son of an attorney, educated in Berlin. In 1899-1903 studied Chinese, Mongolian and Manchu at Berlin (W. Grube, also listened to Pischel and J. Oppert), Ph.D. 1904. In 1904-11 in China, teaching at military schools in Wuchang and…
BUHOT, Henry Jean Félix. Paris 13.8.1885 — Paris 5.9.1952. French Painter and Art Historian. The only child of painter Félix Buhot (1847–1898) and his English wife, Henriette Johnston. After school in Paris travelled much in France, England, Germany and Italy. During WW I worked as English interpreter in a Canadian regiment.…
BRAMZELIUS, Abbe (Albert) Wilhelm Nils. Ystad, Skåne 27.7.1902 — Norrköping 6.6.1981. Swedish Painter and Scholar. Probably son of Alfred Olson Östberg (1878–1960) and his wife Beata. Ph.D., art studies in Paris (Académie Colarossi). Married sculptor Margareta (Märta) Eleonora Hammarlund (1909–1988), divorce 1975. Publications: Die hinduistische Pantheon-Glasmalerei. Eine ethnographische, religions- und kunstgeschichtliche…
BOWERS, Faubion. Miami, Oklahoma 29.1.1917 — New York City 17.11.1999. U.S. Japanologist. Son of Powell Clayton Bowers (1890–1978) and Emma Lou Robinson. Grew up in Tulsa. Briefly studied 1935 at Columbia University and, after music studies in France, in 1939 graduated from Juilliard Graduate School of Music as concert pianist.…
PETZOLD, Bruno. Breslau 3.8.1873 — Karnizawa 1949. German Journalist and Buddhist Priest in Japan. Studies of economics at Leipzig and Berlin. Worked as newspaper correspondent in Paris and London in 1896/1902-07. In 1908 he went to China to work in the German-language Tagblatt für Nord China and 1910 to Japan. Wrote…
HÁJEK, Lubor. Nové Strašecí, Rakovnik region 5.5.1921 — Prague 2.3.2000. Czech Art Historian. Studies of Indology at Prague in 1945-49 (Lesný and Pertold). Ph.D. 1949 Prague (under Pertold). From 1952 Director of Oriental Collections at Czech National Gallery, retired in 1986. Mainly concentrated on East Asian art. Publications: Diss. Poměr…
GOIDSENHOVEN, Jacques P. van. 4.7.1932 (?) — 23.11.1971. Belgian Art Historian. But birth year seems to be wrong, he was already publishing in 1936 and worked then in Musées royaux d’Art et d‘Histoire. In an e-mail 19.11.2021 Claudine Bautze-Picron informs me that J. P. van Goidsenhoven of the 1954 publication…