Viktoria von Lieres and Wilkau

Viktoria von Lieres and Wilkau (nickname Vita von Lieres ) (born September 18, 1881 in Freiburg im Breisgau , † April 15, 1970 in Bad Kissingen ) was a German art historian and classical archaeologist .

Viktoria von Lieres and Wilkau came from a noble Silesian family; her parents were Major General Hermann von Lieres and Wilkau and his wife Cécile Countess Oppersdorff . She attended secondary schools for girls in Kassel , Colmar and Breslau and Helene Lange's girls ' high school in Berlin . In 1904 she acquired the school leaving certificate at the high school in Opole . She studied classical archeology and art history at the University of Berlin and since 1912 in Bonn , where she studied with Georg Loeschcke on July 31, 1912received his doctorate. She was one of only five women who received a doctorate in classical archeology before the First World War (alongside her Margarete Bieber , Elvira Fölzer , Charlotte Fränkel and Margret Heinemann ).

After the First World War she worked as an art historian, initially at the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld . From October 1922 she was a research assistant and from 1926 curator at the Museum für Kunstgewerbe in Frankfurt .

Publications

• Contributions to the history of horse representation in ancient Greek vase painting. Heitz, Strasbourg 1914 (= partial print of the dissertation).
• Exhibition of old paintings from Crefeld's private collection from June 23 to July 18, 1920. Kaiser Wilhelm Museum. Krefeld 1920.
• The initials of Johannes Zainer in Ulm from the Vocabularius Bibliae by Henricus de Hassia. Frankfurt 1923.
• with Robert Schmidt: Masterpieces of Central and South German faience art from private German ownership. Frankfurt 1925.
• Calendar and almanacs. In: Zeitschrift für Bücherfreunde 1926, pp. 101–114.
• Guide to the Museum of Crafts. Frankfurt 1937.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser B Volume XI, Volume 57 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1974, p. 244.