| Julius S. Held | |
| Other Names: | Julius S. Held |
| Birth Date: | 15 April 1905 |
| Birth Place: | Mosbach, Germany |
| Death Place: | Bennington, Vermont, U.S. |
| Alma Mater: | University of Freiburg |
| Main Interests: | Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Anthony van Dyck |
| Workplaces: | Barnard College |
Julius Samuel Held (1905 - 2002) was an art historian, collector, and expert on Dutch painters Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Rembrandt. He published several monographs and was a professor of art history at Barnard College, Columbia University, from 1937 to 1970.[1]
Julius S. Held was born on April 15, 1905, to Adolf and Nannette Held, who ran a clothing store in Mosbach, Germany.[2] He attended university in Freiburg, Heidelberg, Berlin, and Vienna, and earned his doctorate from the University of Freiburg in 1930 with a dissertation on Albrecht Dürer. After the Nazi regime came to power in 1933, Held sought a way to emigrate. He arrived in the United States in 1934. In 1936, he married Ingrid-Marta Nordin-Petterson, an art conservator. The couple had two children.[2]
Held became professor of art history at Columbia University's Barnard College in New York City in 1937, a position he held until his retirement in 1970. Later in his life, he moved to Bennington, Vermont, where he died in 2002.[3]
Held wrote several monographs on Dutch painters including Rembrandt, Anthony van Dyck, and Peter Paul Rubens. These works can be found by searching for Julius S. Held on Worldcat.