Sir Isidore Spielmann
Born 21 July 1854
Died 10 May 1925
Active: 1897 - 1926
Country of birth and death: England
Director of art at the board of trade (exhibitions branch)
Director of Art, Board of Trade (Exhibitions Branch); Executive Committee National Art Collections Fund; Member of Advisory Council, Victoria and Albert Museum; a Governor, British Institute Industrial Art, Boards of Trade and Education; assisted the promotion of the Stuart, Tudor, Guelph, Early Italian, Venetian, Spanish, and other Art Exhibitions; Hon. Sec. and Delegate of the British Commission Fine Art Section, Brussels International Exhibition, 1897; Secretary and Delegate of the British Fine Art Section Royal Commission, Paris International Exhibition, 1900, and British Juror for Decoration; Hon. Sec. (London) Fine Art Section, Glasgow International Exhibition, 1901; Representative in Great Britain for the Belgian Govt Exhibitions of Early Flemish Art, Bruges, 1902; the Toison d’Or, Bruges; Early Belgian Art, Brussels, 1910; International Miniature Exhibition, Brussels, 1912; Honorary Secretary and Member Art Committee, and Honorary Assistant Secretary Royal Commission St Louis International Exhibition, 1904; Member British Government Committee and Director for Art, British Government Exhibit and an Executive Commissioner New Zealand International Exhibition, 1906–07; Member Departmental Committee to inquire and report to Government upon British participation in International Exhibitions, 1907; Commissioner for Art, Franco-British Exhibition, 1908; Member of Royal Commission for the Brussels International Exhibition, 1910, and Turin International Exhibition, 1911; Commissioner-General for Great Britain, Rome International Fine Arts Exhibition, 1911; Director, Exhibition of British Arts and Crafts, Louvre, Paris, 1914; Member Spanish Art Exhibition, Burlington House, 1920; Council British Empire Exhibition, 1924; an Executive Commissioner New Zealand Exhibition, 1926; Member of Council of Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor.
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Franco-British Exhibition of Science, Art and Industries (London), 1908
1908 (Presumed)
Lent works [from his collection?] to exhibition (4 January 1909, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no. 1).
Selection committee member of International Exhibition, Dublin, 1907
21 July 1906 (Circa) - 21 July 1907 (Presumed)
Personal and Professional Connections
Gave negative review to Jacques Chenue
4 January 1909
Spielmann complained to the Royal Society of British Sculptors of damage to works lent to the Franco-British Exhibition on account of Mr.Chenue's employees [1 February 1909, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Sources
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
1 February 1909.
Who was Who
December 2007
‘SPIELMANN, Sir Isidore’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U203206, accessed 24 Aug 2010]
Citing this record
'Sir Isidore Spielmann', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1221577973, accessed 24 Jan 2021]
