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Klara Steinweg (1903–1972) was a German art historian, specializing in the
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. She was a collaborator with Richard Offner on the ''Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting'', from 1930 to 1965.


Biography

Klara Steinweg was born on 18 May 1903 in
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,
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. She started her studies in 1922 under
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in
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, and later with
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at the
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. By 1925, she was in
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working on writing her dissertation on
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under , which was published in 1929. In 1930, she became an assistant to Richard Offner and moved to Berlin. She started her work on volume 4 of the book series ''Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting''. In 1935, she moved to Florence to continue her work with Offner. With the outbreak of
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(in 1939), where she remained until the end of the war, and she continued to work almost exclusively on the Offner project until 1965. She lived in Florence until her death in 1972. Richard Offner died on 26 August 1965 in Florence, aged 76. His project then moved to the
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, where Steinweg was appointed a co-author of the work. Miklós Boskovits and Mina Gregori continued the project work. Steinweg died on 10 June 1972, aged 69, in Meerbusch, Rhein-Kreis Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.


See also

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Women in the art history field Women were professionally active in the academic discipline of art history in the nineteenth century and participated in the important shift early in the century that began involving an "emphatically corporeal visual subject", with Vernon Lee as a ...


References

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