# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerald-reitlinger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:12:46.774Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerald-reitlinger"
name: "Gerald Reitlinger"
slug: "gerald-reitlinger"
description: "Gerald Roberts Reitlinger was a British art historian, especially of Asian ceramics, and a scholar of historical changes in taste in art and their reflection in art prices. After World War II he wrote three large books about Nazi Germany. He was also a painter and collector, mainly of pottery. Reitlinger's major works were The Final Solution (1953), The SS: Alibi of a Nation (1956), and between 1961 and 1970 he published The Economics of Taste in three volumes."
tagline: "British art historian (1900-1978)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Gerald_Reitlinger_by_(John)_Christopher_Wood%2C_1926_wa_1978_51as.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1900-03-02"
deathDate: "1978-03-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.33
  momentum:             1.286698670846804
  historical:           7.219188
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Gerald Reitlinger"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Reitlinger"
    title: "Gerald Reitlinger"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump