| Code | DS/UK/1532 |
| Dates | 11/01/1876-14/06/1957 |
| Person Name | Swarzenski; Georg (11/01/1876-14/06/1957); Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Surname | Swarzenski |
| Forenames | Georg |
| Title | Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Activity | Art Historian. Assistant at Berliner Museen (1901-1903); Assistant at Deutsches Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz (1903-1904); Assistant at Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin (1904-1906); Director of Städelsches Kunstinstitut Frankfurt (1906-1938); also General Director of all Town Museum in Frankfurt (1928-1934); Honorary Professor for History of Art at University Frankfurt (1914-1933); Lecturer at Princeton University (1938-1939); Research Fellow at Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. |
| Relationships | Son of Adolf Hans Swarzenski and Auguste Swarzenski, née Beck; children Uta Elisabeth, Hanns Peter (Art Historian), Wolfgang Victor and Wilhelm Gottfried; married Ella Pertz-Wilcynska (1899) and Marie Mössinger (1916). |
| History | Studied Law in Freiburg, Berlin, Munich, Leipzig, Heidelberg (1893-1896); studied History of Art, Archaeology, History of Music in Vienna, Berlin, Heidelberg (1896-1900); doctoral dissertation (1900); habilitation (1903); emigrated to USA (1938). |
| Source | Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Modern Perspectives in Western Art History: An Anthology of 20th-Century Writings on the Visual Arts. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971, p. 46 mentioned; Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart 1999, pp. 403-5; Wendland, Ulrike. Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil: Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler. Munich 1999, vol. 2, pp. 677-683; "Georg Swarzenski: Growth of the Medieval and Renaissance Collections During his Association with the Museum." Bulletin [of the] Museum of Fine Arts Boston 55 no. 301-302 (Autumn-Winter 1957): 1-119; McClintock, Kathryn. "'Arts of the Middle Ages' and the Swarzenskis." in Smith, Elizabeth Bradford, and McClintock, Kathryn, and Rottne, R. Aaron, eds. Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting, 1800-1940. University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania State University, 1996; [obituaries:] Schilling, Edmund. "Georg Swarzenski." Burlington Magazine 100, no. 664 (July 1958): 251-252; "Georg Swarzenski, Museum Director." New York Times June 16, 1957, p. 84; Rossiter, Henry P. Art Quarterly 20 no. 3 (Autumn 1957): 328. |
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