Dorothea Stern

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Luise Marie Dorothea Stern (born January 19, 1878 in Berlin ; † October 12, 1949 in Dresden ) was a German art historian .

Dorothea Stern was the daughter of the Prussian officer Emil Stern (1843–1929), later General of the Artillery, and his wife Catharina von Berg (* 1849). She attended school in the changing locations of her father and passed the Abitur exams in Kassel in February 1910 . She then studied art history, history and philosophy at the universities of Berlin , Munich and Freiburg . In Freiburg it was on 27 February 1915, Wilhelm Vöge with a dissertation on the Nuremberg sculptor Adam Kraft to Dr. phil. PhD . This made her the first woman to receive a doctorate in art history in Freiburg. This work was published in 1916 as a volume in the series of Studies on German Art History .

In 1920 her treatise on the Darmstadt court painter Gotthelf Leberecht Glaeser was published . From autumn 1921 she worked in the editorial department of the General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Until Volume 18, 1925, she appears as a member of the editorial staff on the title page of the lexicon.

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  1. ^ Dresden registry office 5: death register . No. 2499/1949.
  2. ↑ Birgit Pryadko-Heise: Dr. Klara Steinweg (1903–1973). In: File inspection (= magazine for museum and education volume 74). Lit, Berlin / Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-99870-5 , p. 149.
  3. ↑ Preface . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
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SURNAME Stern, Dorothea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stern, Luise Marie Dorothea (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1949
Place of death Dresden