CodeDS/UK/76
Dates1842-1901
Person NameBayersdorfer; Adolph (1842-1901)
SurnameBayersdorfer
ForenamesAdolph
ActivityConnoisseur and art critic; Curator of the art gallery in Castle Schleissheim (1880-84); Curator at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich (1884-). Co-founder of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (1895).
HistoryStudies, philosophy, history of art and economics in the 1870s without obtaining a degree; frequent travels to Italy.
SourceMetzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. 2nd. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2007, pp.16-18; <http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/bayersdorfera.htm> [accessed 15/06/2010]

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