Friedrich Dörnhöffer

Friedrich Dörnhöffer (born January 23, 1865 in Vienna ; † January 12, 1934 in Solln near Munich ) was an Austrian art historian and museum director.

Life

Friedrich Dörnhöffer studied German , history and art history in Munich , Strasbourg and Vienna and received his doctorate in Vienna in 1896 under Franz Wickhoff . After a brief archival practice, he became head of the copper engraving collection of the k. k. Court library . In 1909 he became the first director of the State Gallery in the Belvedere in Vienna. In 1912 he went to Munich to succeed Hugo von Tschudis as General Director of the Bavarian State Painting Collections. Here he made a significant contribution to the reorganization and expansion of the collections in Munich and its branch galleries in Bavaria. He was retired on March 1, 1933.

A cycle of depictions of the wars and hunts of Maximilian I in pen drawings . In: Yearbook of the Art Collections of the Very Highest Imperial House 18, 1897, pp. 1-55 (= dissertation, digitized version ).

Friedrich Dörnhöffer † . In: The beautiful home. Illustrated magazine for applied arts 5, 1934, p. 457.
Dörnhöffer, Friedrich. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 191.

personal data
SURNAME	Dörnhöffer, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH	January 23, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	Should
DATE OF DEATH	January 12, 1934
Place of death	Munich