Biography
Angelica Zander was born on May 24,1937,in Germany. [1] Her father,legal scholar Walter Zander,is Jewish,and his wife Margaret is a Dutch Protestant. [2] The family fled to England later that year due to Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime. [3] She attended the University of Oxford,where she got a BA in Honours in 1959 and an ΜA in 1961. [1] She also obtained an MA from Smith College in 1961. [1]
She worked as a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts,Boston Department of European Paintings from 1960 to 1968. [1] [4] From 1965 to 1968,she served as editor of the Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts,as well as editor-in-chief of the museum's publications. [1] She freelanced as an editor at the Museum of Modern Art (1968-1969). [1] In 1969,she joined the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum as a consultant. [1] She served at the museum research curator from 1973 to 1980 and as adjunct curator from 1980 to 1981. [1] She later chaired the Harvard University Department of Fine Arts' supervisory committee and worked at the Mellon Foundation as senior advisor of museums and art conservation. [5] [6] She also worked at New York University Institute of Fine Arts as an adjunct professor. [4]
In 1976,she published the two-volume The Guggenheim Museum Collection:Paintings,1880-1945. [7] In 1981,she and Margit Rowell prepared Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia for the Guggenheim's exhibition of George Costakis' art. [a] In 1983, [8] she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for a conceptual and historical study of museums of modern art". [1] She later wrote a 1985 catalogue of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and authored the fourth volume of Harvard University Art Museum's Modern Painting,Drawing and Sculpture Collected By Emily and Joseph Pulitzer Jr., [b] [c] winning a 1988 Mitchell Prize for the History of Art for the latter. [9]
She was appointed a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1994. [10]
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