A death

Emil G. Schnorr of Northampton and Springfield, Massachusetts died
at home on October 19 after a long illness.  Emil was born in
Germany and studied at the Academie of Fine Arts in Stuttgart,
Germany.  He emigrated to the U. S. in 1951 working first in New
York before moving to the George Walter Vincent Smith Museum in
Springfield in 1952 where he eventually became the Chief Conservator
and Curator of Arms and Armor, retiring in 1994.  He was a member of
the IIC, AIC, the Appraisers Association of America, the New England
Conservation Association and the Japanese Sword Society of America.

Emil was a distinguished practitioner of conservation in an
amazingly wide variety of media and a great teacher, both of
conservators who have gone on to important careers and the general
public.  Those who knew him will remember him as an extremely
generous man with an encyclopedic knowledge of art, art techniques
and the historic context of virtually any object that you brought to
his attention.  He was a great admirer of art in all of its forms,
and one could sense his sympathetic understanding of the artist's
intent and his understanding of how the artist labored to create
each work of art.  He also understood the importance of even minor
works of art to those who owned them.  Many people in the
Springfield area can tell stories of how Emil saved family treasures
from various disasters, often for little or no compensation.

A memorial service will be held at the Springfield Museum of Art on
November 3 from 4-6 PM.

David Dempsey
Smith College Museum of Art
Northampton, MA

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