Dictionary of Art Historians, arthistorians.info, «Netherlandish art scholar and director Kaiser Friedrich Museum. Friedländer was the son of Leopold Friedländer (1832-ca.1880), a Berlin banker, and Helene Noether (Friedländer) (1843-after 1901). He began studying art history in 1891 in Munich, continuing in Florence (under August Schmarsow, and ultimately Leipzig, writing a dissertation on Albrecht Altdorfer under Anton Springer. Friedländer volunteered at the graphics collection (Kupferstichkabinett) of the Berlin State Museums under Friedrich Lippmann in 1891 and the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne between 1895-96 under Ludwig Scheibler. Through Lippmann's recommendation, he joined the Gemäldegalerie (Paintings Department) of the Berlin State Museums in 1896 under Wilhelm Bode. He was appointed Deputy Director (immediately under Bode) in 1904, adding the Kupferstichkabinett responsibilities of the Museum in 1908. He and Bode were responsible for the great acquisitions years of the Berlin museums, with Friedländer personally donating a number of works to the Gemäldegalerie and Kupferstichkabinett. In 1924, Friedländer began publishing his magnum opus, a history of early Netherlandish painting artist by artist, which, for its detail and documentation, has never been surpassed. He succeeded Bode as Director in 1924. He and Jakob Rosenberg wrote a monograph on Lucas Cranach in 1932.»[Hentet fra Wikidata]
