Claus Grimm

{{Short description|German art historian}}

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Claus Grimm (born November 22, 1940) is a German art historian and from its founding in 1983 until 2007 he was director of the Bavarian historical institute Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte in Augsburg. He is considered an authority on Frans Hals and wrote a catalogue raisonné in 1989.{{Cite web |url=http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/grimmc.htm |title=Dictionary of Art Historians: Grimm, Claus |access-date=2013-08-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810050357/https://dictionaryofarthistorians.org/grimmc.htm |archive-date=2016-08-10 |url-status=dead }}{{cite book |last1=Grimm |first1=Claus |editor1-link=Claus Grimm |title=Frans Hals das Gesamtwerk |date=1989 |publisher=Belser |location=Stuttgart & Zürich |isbn=9783763019465 |language=German}} There is an English translation by Jürgen Riehle, ISBN 9780810934047Frans Hals: The Complete Work, by Claus Grimm, Amsterdam, Meulenhoff/Landshoff, 1990