| Code | DS/UK/1560 |
| Dates | 29/05/1879-09/01/1961 |
| Person Name | Hamann; Heinrich Richard (29/05/1879-09/01/1961); Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Surname | Hamann |
| Forenames | Heinrich Richard |
| Title | Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Activity | Art historian. Professor in Posen (1911), Chair of Art history at university of Marburg (1913-1949); chaired guest lecturer at Humboldt University in (East) Berlin (1947-57); founded the "working group on art history" for the Academy of Sciences in Berlin (1957); founder of photo-archive 'Bildarchiv Foto Marburg'.
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| Relationships | Son of Heinrich Hamann and Elisabeth Hamann, née Banko; married Emily MacLean (1907); father of Richard (art historian). |
| History | Studied philosophy and literary history in Berlin, then history and art history; doctoral dissertation (1902); habilitation (1911). |
| Source | Mansfield, Elizabeth, ed. Art History and its Institutions: Foundations of a Discipline. New York: Routledge, 2002, pp. 65-84; Feist, Peter H. "Hamann, Richard." Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. 2nd ed. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2007, pp. 156-159; "Hamann, Richard", in: Dictionary of Art Historians [online version]; URL: <http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/hamannr.htm> [accessed 21/07/2011]. |
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