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 .

personal data
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

[1] Fritz Schieri: Mersmann, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 175 ( digitized version ).

[2] The importance of the round window in the Middle Ages. Dissertation, University of Vienna 1944 Record in the Austrian union catalog .

[3] Konstantin Akinsha: Ante Topic Mimara, The Master Swindler of Yugoslavia . In: ARTnews September 2001.

[4] Page at the University of Salzburg .