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Friedrich Möbius (art Historian)
Friedrich Otto Karl Möbius (24 May 1928 – 7 August 2024) was a German art and architectural historian. From 1976 to 1991, he was the full professor of art history at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Life Born in Dresden and brother to the physicist Peter Paul Möbius (born 6 June 1930 in Meißen), he studied history and art history at the University of Leipzig from 1948 to 1953, where he was mainly influenced by Heinz Ladendorf. He made his living as a theatre reviewer and columnist for the local press. In 1953 he began a doctorate supervised by Lottlisa Behling at the University of Jena and - despite her departure for West Germany in 1958 - he defended his dissertation ''The Stadtkirche St. Michael in Jena. A medieval monument as a historical figure.'' summa cum laude. In addition to monographs on individual medieval churches, Möbius went beyond the interpretation of architectural forms of building and decoration into aspects of architectural history transcend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dresden
Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth largest by area (after Berlin, Hamburg, and Cologne), and the third-most populous city in the area of former East Germany, after Berlin and Leipzig. Dresden's urban area comprises the towns of Freital, Pirna, Radebeul, Meissen, Coswig, Saxony, Coswig, Radeberg, and Heidenau and has around 790,000 inhabitants. The Dresden metropolitan area has approximately 1.34 million inhabitants. Dresden is the second largest city on the River Elbe after Hamburg. Most of the city's population lives in the Dresden Basin, Elbe Valley, but a large, albeit very sparsely populated, area of the city east of the Elbe lies in the West Lusatian Hill Country and Uplands (the westernmost part of the Sudetes) and thus in Lusatia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
