| Code | DS/UK/1531 |
| Dates | 25/04/1877-29/10/1959 |
| Person Name | Suida; Wilhelm Emil (25/04/1877-29/10/1959); Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Surname | Suida |
| Forenames | Wilhelm Emil |
| Title | Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Activity | Art Historian. Assistant at Deutsches Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz; lecturer at University of Vienna (1905-1910); chair of painting collection of Landesmuseum Joanneum Graz; honorary Professor at University of Graz (1911-); head of the department of art-historical research of the Kress Foundation; Catalogue-cooperation with many museum in USA (Houston, San Francisco, Portland, Atlanta, Memphis etc.). |
| Relationships | Son of Albert Suida and Bertha Suida, née von Heim; married Hermine Eugenie Satory; daughter Bertina Suida Manning. |
| History | Studied History of Art in Vienna, Leipzig, Heidelberg (-1899); doctoral dissertation (1900); habilitation (1905); emigrated to USA (1939). |
| Source | Wendland, Ulrike. Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil: Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler. Munich 1999, vol. 2, pp. 672-677; [obituaries:] Morassi, Antonio. William Suida. Burlington Magazine 102, no. 689 (August 1960):371; "William E. Suida, Art Historian, 82, Curator of Research for Kress Foundation Dies-Studied Italian Masters." New York Times October 30, 1959, p. 27. |
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