| Code | DS/UK/405 |
| Dates | 09/09/1877-22/05/1916 |
| Person Name | Burger; Fritz (09/09/1877-22/05/1916); Prof.Dr. |
| Surname | Burger |
| Forenames | Fritz |
| Title | Prof.Dr. |
| Activity | Artist; private lecturer at Munich and at the academy of performing arts (1907-1914 ); editor of Handbuch der Kunstwissenschaft with Alfred Erich Brinckmann (1912 -); Professor of art history at the Universities of Heidelberg, Strasbourg, and Munich; Fell in World War I at Verdun. |
| Relationships | Married the daughter of Heidelberg classicist Friedrich von Duhn (1851-1930) (1900). |
| History | Architectural studies in Munich (1896-97), military enrollment (1897); studied art history in Heidelberg (1900-); completed his doctorate under Henry Thode (1903), PhD thesis published (1904). Moved to Freiburg (1904), studied in Florence (1904 -1906) and travelled in Italy; Habilitation 'Vitruv und die Renaissance' (Munich 1906). |
| Source | Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l'histoire de l'art; de Vasari à nos jours. Paris: Albin Michel, 1986, pp. 186, 325, 374, 375; Hüttinger, Eduard, and Boehm, Gottfried. Porträts und Profile: zur Geschichte der Kunstgeschichte. St. Gallen: Erker, 1992, pp. 338-353; Burkhardt, Liane. "Zu einigen Positionen des Kunsthistorikers Fritz Burger." Kunstchronik 51 no. 4 (1998): 169-173; Locher, Hubert. "The Art Historical Survey: Narratives and Picture Compendia." Visual Resources 17 no. 2 (2001): 165-178; Feist, Peter H. "Burger, Fritz." Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon. 2nd. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2007, pp. 48-50. |
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