Elfried Bock

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Elfried Bock (born October 16, 1875 in Braunschweig , † January 4, 1933 in Berlin ) was a German art historian .

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Elfried Bock, son of the chief magistrate Friedrich Bock, attended grammar school in Braunschweig and studied art history in Munich and Basel with Heinrich Wölfflin . He received his doctorate in Basel in 1902. From 1903 he worked in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Berlin museums under Max J. Friedländer , and at the end of June 1930 he succeeded him as director of the Kupferstichkabinett.

Elfried Bock retired in 1932 for health reasons and died in Berlin at the beginning of the following year at the age of 57. His grave in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend has not been preserved.

Publications (selection)

  • Florentine and Venetian picture frames from the Gothic and Renaissance periods . Bruckmann, Munich 1902 (dissertation, digitized version ).
  • Adolph Menzel. Directory of his graphic work . Amsler & Ruthardt, Berlin 1923.
  • The German graphics . F. Hanfstaengl, Munich 1922.
  • The drawings in the Erlangen University Library . Prestel publishing house, Frankfurt a. M. 1929.
  • with Jakob Rosenberg : The Dutch Masters. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, descriptive index of all drawings . J. Bard, Berlin 1930.
  • History of graphic art from its beginnings to the present . Propylaea Publishing House, Berlin 1930.

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 484.

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personal data
SURNAME Bock, Elfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1933
Place of death Berlin