Thomas Muchall-Viebrook
Thomas James Alfred William Muchall-Viebrook (born April 22, 1881 in Kiel , † March 15, 1963 in Graefelfing ) was a German art historian .
Life
Thomas Muchall-Viebrook was the son of the landowner Thomas William Muchall-Viebrook (1840-1918) and his wife Ellison Buchanan (1854-1911). After attending high school in Kiel and Baden-Baden, where he obtained a high school in 1900, he studied from spring 1901 semester seven Jura in Neuchatel , Heidelberg and Munich . In the fall of 1904 he switched to art history, which he studied in Munich (4 semesters), Berlin (5 semesters) and again in Munich (5 semesters). In 1911 he received his doctorate from Karl Voll with a dissertation on Domenikus Zimmermann suggested by Berthold Riehl . From 1914 to 1919 he worked as a research assistant at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich. On September 1, 1919, he began his work as an assistant at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich, becoming a curator in 1921 and chief curator in 1937. In 1945 he worked for the Central Collecting Point in Munich, in October 1946 he resumed his work at the Graphic Collection, where he worked on the scientific catalog of the drawings with Engelbert Baumeister . He retired on August 31, 1949.
Publications (selection)
- Dominikus Zimmermann. A contribution to the history of southern German art in the 18th century (= Archive for the History of the Hochstift Augsburg Volume 4, Delivery 1–2, pp. 1–81). Dillingen 1912 (also separately Hiersemann, Leipzig 1912; dissertation).
- German baroque drawings. Delphin-Verlag , Munich 1925.
- Daniel Chodowiecki. Engravings from the master's estate . Holbein-Verlag, Munich 1920.
- Flemish drawings of the seventeenth century . Benn, London 1926.
literature
- Muchall-Viebrook, Thomas . In: Gerhard Oestreich (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 7th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 1950, OCLC 257209326 , p. 1396 .
- Sabine Wölfel: Biographies . In: Michael Semff , Kurt Zeitler (Hrsg.): Artists draw - collectors donate. 250 years of the State Graphic Collection in Munich . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2179-0 , Vol. 3, p. 149.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Muchall-Viebrook, Thomas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Muchall-Viebrook, Thomas James Alfred William (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiel |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1963 |
| Place of death | Graefelfing |