Artur Schuschnigg (art historian)

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Artur Schuschnigg , Edler von Schuschnigg until 1919 , (born June 21, 1904 in Vienna ; † September 3, 1990 in Natters ) was an Austrian art historian and radio operator .

Life

Schuschnigg came from an Austrian officer family, his father was the officer Artur Schuschnigg (1865-1938), his older brother the future Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg (1897-1977).

He studied art history and received his doctorate from the University of Innsbruck in 1928 . In 1929 he got a job as a research assistant at the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, in 1931 he went to Tyrolia Verlag and from 1933 to 1938 he was program manager of the record department of Radio Verkehrs AG . After the Anschluss of Austria he was released. In the spring of 1939 he got a job as curator at the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum in Berlin. After the war he became program director of Radio Tirol in Innsbruck in 1945 , and from 1955 head of the music department of Austrian broadcasting .

His son Artur (* 1935) worked in the Austrian diplomatic service.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Moll family of sculptors . Dissertation Innsbruck 1928 (unprinted).
  • Moll, Tyrol. Family of sculptors . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 39-41 .
  • Nikolaus Moll, the creator of the pulpit in the St. Jakobs parish church in Innsbruck . In: Tiroler Barockbildhauer (= Tiroler Heimatblätter 27, 1952, No. 4/6). Innsbruck 1952, pp. 50-54.

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personal data
SURNAME Schuschnigg, Artur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schuschnigg, Artur Hermann Maria Edler von (full name); Schuschnigg, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian and radio worker
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 1990
Place of death Natters