| Code | DS/UK/1410 |
| Dates | 07/01/1901-24/01/1973 |
| Person Name | Neumeyer; Alfred (07/01/1901-24/01/1973); Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Surname | Neumeyer |
| Forenames | Alfred |
| Title | Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Activity | Art Historian. Assistant at Kunsthalle Hamburg and Staatliche Museen Berlin (1928-1929); press relations officer at Staatliche Museen Berlin; lecturer at the University of Berlin (1931-1935); lecturer, then Professor at Mills College in Oakland, California; Director of Mills College Art Gallery (1937-1961); visiting Professor at University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University (1938, 1948), Stanford University, University of Heidelberg (1958); honorary Professor at Freie Universität Berlin. |
| Relationships | Son of Prof. Dr. Karl Neumeyer (1869-1941) and Anna Neumeyer (née Hirschhorn); brother of Dr. Frederik Neumeyer; marriage Eva Maria Kirchheim (1926); father of Peter. |
| History | Studied History of Art, Archaeology, Philosophy in Munich and Berlin (1920-1925); doctoral dissertation (1925); habilitation (1931); emigration to USA. (1935) |
| Source | Joseph Walk (ed.), Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918–1945. ed. Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. München 1988; Wendland, Ulrike. Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil: Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler. Munich: Saur, 1999, vol. 2, pp. 459-463; Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart 1999, pp. 282-5. |
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