Kurt Zoege von Manteuffel

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Kurt Zoege von Manteuffel

Kurt Nikolai Baron Zoege von Manteuffel (born August 20, 1881 in Reval , Estonia , † January 10, 1941 in Konitz , West Prussia ) was a German art historian .

Life

Kurt Zoege von Manteuffel spent his childhood in Estonia and then attended high schools in Kassel and Königsberg . From 1902 he studied art history in Munich, Berlin and Halle. In 1909 he received his doctorate in Halle with a dissertation on Antonio Pisanello . He then worked as an assistant at the Municipal Museum in Aachen in 1909/10 . From 1911 to 1914 he was an editorial member of the General Lexicon of Visual Artists in Leipzig . In 1914/15 he was deputy director of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence , and from 1916 to 1919 he worked as an unskilled worker at the Kaiser Friedrich Museum and at the Kupferstichkabinett of the Berlin museums. In 1919 he became curator at the Kupferstichkabinett in Dresden , of which he was director from 1924 until his death. His son Claus (1926–2009) also became an art historian.

His main areas of research were Dutch Baroque painting and graphics as well as drawing and graphics of the 19th century. From 1910 he worked on an extensive monograph with an oeuvre catalog about Alfred Rethel , which was almost completed by his death.

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