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Gerald Reitlinger

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British art historian (1900-1978)

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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.

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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.

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Lived 1900 to 1978 · aged 78
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