Walther Biehl

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Walther Richard Biehl (born September 5, 1882 in Plagwitz near Leipzig , † 1963 ) was a German art historian .

Life

Walther Biehl was the son of the merchant and landowner Richard Biehl and Clara Hoffmann. He attended the Thomas Gymnasium in Leipzig from 1893 to 1902 and then studied in Lausanne, Geneva, Leipzig , Berlin and Heidelberg , first law, then art history, classical archeology and philosophy. In Heidelberg he received his doctorate on July 23, 1909 under Henry Thode . From April 1, 1910, he was a volunteer at the Municipal Museum of Applied Arts and the City History Museum in Leipzig, then a scientific assistant at the State Picture Gallery in Dresden . In 1911/12 he worked on the editorial team of the General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present in Leipzig. From 1912 to 1914 he worked as assistant director at the German Art History Institute in Florence , then as assistant director at the Leipzig City Museum with Albrecht Kurzwelly . In 1919 he became director of the Bautzen City Museum and retired in 1946.

His main research interests were the sculpture of medieval Tuscany and the art of Lusatia .

literature

  • Biehl, Walther . In: Gerhard Oestreich (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 7th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 1950, OCLC 257209326 , p. 144 .
  • Johannes Strauch: Dr. Walther Biehl †. The long-time director of the Bautzen City Museum had a fatal accident. In: Bautzen culture show. 13, 1963, issue 5, p. 13.

Publications (selection)

  • The Tuscan relief in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries. Borna-Leipzig 1910 (dissertation, with curriculum vitae).
  • with Albrecht Kurzwelly , Eduard Eyßen, Hildegard Heyne : The portrait in Leipzig from the end of the 17th century to the Biedermeier period. On the occasion of the portrait exhibition organized by the Leipzig City History Museum in 1912. Hiersemann, Leipzig 1912.
  • Old master woodcuts from the possession of the city museum in Bautzen. OC Law, Munich 1923.
  • Tuscan sculpture of the early and high Middle Ages. Seemann, Leipzig 1926.
  • Bautzen (= Germany's urban development ). Deutsche Architektur- und Industrie-Verlag, Berlin-Halensee 1922, 2nd edition 1926.
  • The Cathedral of St Peter in Bautzen. Union-Verlag, Berlin 1953.
personal data
SURNAME Biehl, Walther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Biehl, Walther Richard (full name); Biehl, Walther R .; Biehl, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Plagwitz
DATE OF DEATH 1963