Wiltrud Topić-Mersmann
Wiltrud Topić-Mersmann , nee Mersmann, (born February 21, 1919 in Berlin ) is an Austrian art historian .
Wiltrud Mersmann, daughter of the musicologist Hans Mersmann , studied art history and received her doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1944 . After the war, she worked at the Central Collecting Point in Munich from March 1946 to June 1949 . Here she helped the Croatian art dealer Ante Topić Mimara (1898–1987) to get hold of works of art allegedly originating from Yugoslavia and stolen by the National Socialists .
In 1957 she married Ante Topić Mimara. She lived with her husband since 1963 in the Neuhaus Castle in Salzburg, which he had acquired . She has been teaching art history at the University of Salzburg since 1971 and was habilitated in 1977, receiving the title of tit. ao university professor . In 1973 she and her husband bequeathed their art collection to the state of Croatia , the collection has been exhibited in the Mimara Museum (Foundation Zbirka umjetnina Ante i Wiltrude Topić Mimara ) in Zagreb since 1987 .
Scientifically, she was mainly active in the field of medieval art.
Fonts (selection)
- The Man of Sorrows (= Lukas Library for Christian Iconography. Volume 4). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1952.
Web links
- Topić-Mersmann, Wiltrud . In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 26th edition. Four volumes. De Gruyter, Berlin [ua] 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-030257-8 ( degruyter.com [accessed on January 17, 2015] constantly updated, restricted-access online edition [Article ID: P18249?]).
Remarks
- ^ Fritz Schieri: Mersmann, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 175 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ The importance of the round window in the Middle Ages. Dissertation, University of Vienna 1944 Record in the Austrian union catalog .
- ↑ Konstantin Akinsha: Ante Topic Mimara, The Master Swindler of Yugoslavia . In: ARTnews September 2001.
- ^ Page at the University of Salzburg .
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SURNAME | Topić-Mersmann, Wiltrud |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mersmann, Wiltrud (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian art historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1919 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |