Gerald Reitlinger
British art historian (1900-1978) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 78
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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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.
