Walter Liedtke
February 4 2015
Picture: Met
Some very sad news; Walter Liedtke, curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, has died in a train accident. He had been at the Met since 1979.
Update - a reader writes:
I was with him only last Thursday. Very sad news, a horrific accident, and a terrible loss of a great curator.
Update II - another reader writes:
I had known Walter and his wife Nancy for 34 years.
He was not only a very fine art historian and a first class museum curator, he was above all a wonderful and kind human being, very loyal and caring. He will be missed as a great friend above all.
He had married his college sweetheart Nancy and until yesterday they were one of the most touching couple you could possibly meet. My heart goes to her above all.
I had dinner with them both last Wednesday... and find in truly shocking that he is gone.
I never knew him. But like all of us profited greatly from his many publications on Dutch and Flemish art.
Update III - appreciations from Arthur Wheelock here, and Gary Schwartz here.
Update IV - and another from Met Director Thomas Campbell here, with links to a number of obituaries.
