Conrad Buchwald

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Conrad Buchwald (born July 27, 1867 in Breslau , Province of Silesia , † April 15, 1931 ibid) was a German art historian and librarian .

Life

Conrad Buchwald, son of the Breslau painter Hugo Buchwald (1836-1919), studied art history at the University of Breslau , where he received his doctorate on December 3, 1898. He then went on numerous study trips to Europe. From 1893 he worked at the Silesian Museum of Applied Arts and Antiquities in Wroclaw and in 1899 became its curator and librarian. He mainly dealt with the art history of his hometown of Wroclaw and Silesia .

Publications (selection)

  • Adriaen de Vries . Seemann, Leipzig 1899 (dissertation, digitized version ).
  • The home of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture in Wroclaw . In: Berliner Architekturwelt 11, No. 1, 1909, pp. 2–21.
  • The house of Albert and Toni Neisser. A guide. Silesian Museum of Applied Arts and Antiquities, Breslau 1920 (further editions 1921, 1923, 1927)
  • Some major works of church painting and sculpture of the Middle Ages . Museum publishing house, Breslau 1920 ( digitized version ).

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