| Code | DS/UK/899 |
| Dates | 27/10/1885-12/03/1944 |
| Person Name | Mayer; August Liebmann (27/10/1885-12/03/1944); Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Surname | Mayer |
| Forenames | August Liebmann |
| Title | Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Activity | Art Historian; worked at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich (1909-1931); Professor at the University of Munich (1920-1931); co-editor of the journal "Pantheon"; emigrated to France (1936); deported to Auschwitz, where he was killed (1944). |
| History | Studied history of art at the University of Berlin (PhD 1907). |
| Source | Klein, Peter H., August L. Mayer, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 16 (1990), p. 534; Wendland, Ulrike, Biographisches Handlexikon deutscher Kunstwissenschaftler im Exil, Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler, München: K. G. Saur, 1999, vol. 2, pp. 429–438. |
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