| Activity | Art historian. Assistant at Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg (1926-1928); librarian at Stadtbibliotheken Berlin-Lichtenberg and Friedrichshain (1928-1933); visiting instructor and lecturer at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois; Professor of History of Art at the US-Army University, Biarritz; Assistant of the Monuments and Fine Arts Office of the USA in Bavaria; Assistant Professor, Associated Professor, chairman and Professor of Art History Department of the University of Kansas (1947-1970), synchronously Director of the Spencer Art Museum, Kansas; Fulbright Professor in Cologne (1954); Contributor to the cultural exchange between USA and UdSSR (1962). |
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