Alfred Woltmann (18 May 1841 – 6 February 1880) was a

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art historian. He was born at

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, studied at

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and

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, and was appointed

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of art history successively at the Karlsruhe Polytechnicum (1868) and at the universities of

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(1874) and

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(1878). Conjointly with the author he adapted the fifth volume of

Schnaase Karl Schnaase (7 September 1798 – 20 May 1875) was a distinguished German art historian and jurist. He was one of the founders of modern art history, and the author of one of the first surveys of the history of art. Life Schnaase was born ...

's ''Geschichte der bildenden Künste'' for the second edition (1872), and with Karl Woermann began a ''Geschichte der Malerei'' (1878), completed after his death by his collaborator. Besides his principal work, ''Holbein und seine Zeit'' (second edition, 1873–76), he wrote: * ''Die deutsche Kunst und Die Reformation'' (second edition, 1871) * ''Die Baugeschichte Berlins'' (1872) * ''Geschichte der deutschen Kunst in Elsass'' (1876) * ''Die deutsche Kunst in Prag'' (1877) * ''Aus vier Jahrhunderten niederländischdeutscher Kunstgeschichte'' (1878)

References

* Lubomír Slavíček (ed.), Slovník historiků umění, výtvarných kritiků, teoretiků a publicistů v českých zemích a jejich spolupracovníků z příbuzných oborů (asi 1800–2008), Sv. 2, p. 1687–1688, Academia Praha 2016, * * Johannes E. S. Schmidt: ''Die Französische Domschule und das Französische Gymnasium zu Berlin. Schülererinnerungen 1848-1861.'' ed. Rüdiger R. E. Fock. Verlag Dr. Kovac, Hamburg 2008, .
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