Peter Hertz


Peter Julius Hertz was a Danish art historian and museum worker.
Peter Hertz was the son of Julius Hertz, a wholesale merchant, and his wife Henriette F. Hertz. In 1915, he was hired to be the curator of the Danish National Museum of Art. As his main interest began to shift more towards contemporary art, he started to advocate for it through making monographs and working on the biographies of L. A. Ring, Gerhard Henning and Kai Nielsen.
Hertz served on the board of the Danish Museum of Art Association and the Association of French Arts. In 1919, Hertz founded the Association for Contemporary Art and also served as its first President. From 1934 he was a member of the Board of the Rønnenkamp'ske Grant. He was knighted into the Order of the Polar Star.
His first marriage started on 16 December 1899 in Schöneberg town hall in Berlin, with pianist Karen Wellmann, daughter of doctor Carl William Wellman and Mathilde Sophie Krebs. He was married a second time on 14 September 1906 in Copenhagen with the pianist Ina Sophie Oline Meyer, who was the daughter of choral conductor and singing teacher Albert Meyer and Camilla Oettinger. This marriage was also dissolved, and he married a third time on December 22, 1924 in Copenhagen to Olga Valborg Johnsson, daughter of proprietary Johan Johnsson and Fredrika Wilhelmina Carlström.
He was portrayed by Herman Vedel in 1901, 1902 and 1903, Fritz Burger in Switzerland, L. A. Ring, and about 1932 other drawings including some by Ludvig Find and Arne Lofthus about.

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