Early 20th-Century Curatorial Strategies to Enhance the Power of Portraiture : Ludwig Justi and the National Portrait Gallery in Berlin 1913-1933
The emergence of the national portrait gallery as a museum phenomenon during the nineteenth century reflects a broader interest in portraiture at the time. The first of its kind was the National Portrait Gallery in London. Pivotal to the foundation of the gallery in 1856 was historian Thomas Carlyle’s declaration that a portrait had put him in contact with the past. In 1913, a German National Port