Kurt Bauch (25 November 1897 in

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– 1 March 1975 in

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) was a German

art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

with particular interest in the art of

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. The son of a Mecklenburg judge, Bauch studied art history at the

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under

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and at the

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. He wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on the Rembrandt pupil,

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, at the

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Hans Jantzen Hans Jantzen (26 April 1881 in Hamburg – 15 February 1967 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German art history, art historian who specialized in Medieval art. Life and work Jantzen first studied law, then history of art, archaeology and philoso ...

. From 1924 to 1926 he was assistant of the famous Dutch Rembrandt scholar,

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in the Hague. In 1927 he completed his

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sschrift on the art of the young Rembrandt. For some years he worked as a

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, teaching medieval and early modern art in Freiburg and Frankfurt am Main. After joining the

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in 1933, he was appointed professor of art history at the University of Freiburg, where he retired in 1962.

Select publications

*''Jakob Adriaensz Backer: ein Rembrandtbschüler aus Friesland''. Berlin 1926. *''Die Kunst des jungen Rembrandt''. Heidelberg 1933. *''Über die Herkunft der Gotik''. Freiburg im Breisgau 1939. *''Strassburg''. Berlin 1941. *''Der Isenheimer Altar''. Königstein im Taunus 1951. *''Abendländische Kunst''. Düsseldorf 1952. *''Freiburg im Breisgau''. Munich 1953. *''Der frühe Rembrandt und seine Zeit: Studien zur geschichtlichen Bedeutung seines Frühstils''. Berlin 1960. *''Deutsche Kultur am Kap - German culture at the Cape - Duitse kultuur aan die Kaap''. Cape Town 1964. *''Rembrandt: Gemälde''. Berlin 1966. *''Das Brandenburger Tor''. Cologne 1966. *''Studien zur Kunstgeschichte''. Berlin 1967. *''Das mittelalterliche Grabbild. Figürliche Grabmäler des 11. bis 15. Jahrhunderts in Europa''. Berlin 1976.

External links

Dictionary of Art Historians: Bauch, Kurt

Books by Kurt Bauch
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