Paul Kautzsch

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Paul Kautzsch (born August 1, 1882 in Tübingen ; † 1958 ) was a German art historian .

His father was the Protestant theologian Emil Kautzsch (1841-1910), his older brother the later art historian Rudolf Kautzsch (1868-1945). After attending grammar school in Halle, which he graduated from high school in 1901, he first went to the military to become an officer. From 1904, however, he then studied art history in Halle, Berlin, Strasbourg and Darmstadt. In February 1909 he received his doctorate with Adolph Goldschmidt in Halle with a thesis on the sculptor Hans Backoffen . In the same year he became a trainee at the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum in Berlin, in 1911 assistant director at the teaching institution of the Kunstgewerbe-Museum in Berlin, in 1921 curator there, in 1924 curator and professor at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg and finally in November 1944 curator at the Berlin National Gallery .

Publications

  • The workshop and school of the sculptor Hans Backoffen in Mainz. A contribution to the history of Mainz sculpture from 1500–1530 . Dissertation Halle 1909 ( digitized version ).
  • The Mainz sculptor Hans Backoffen and his school . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1911.

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personal data
SURNAME Kautzsch, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kautzsch, Paul Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH 1958