Edwin Redslob Explained

Birth Date:1884 9, df=y

Edwin Redslob (22 September 1884, Weimar – 24 January 1973, West Berlin) was a German art historian and art collector who served as Reichskunstwart under the Weimar Republic.[1] Appointed in 1920, he held the position until it was abolished after the Nazis came to power in 1933.[2] [3] [4]

In 1912, he was appointed to run the Angermuseum in Erfurt where he remained until 1919.[5]

He was an art collector.[6] [7] [8] In 1945, he co-founded the Berlin daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel,[9] and then in 1948, he was one of the co-initiators in the founding of the Freie Universität Berlin.[10] He was a professor at the university teaching Art History from 1948 to 1954. He was also rector from 1949 to 1950.[10]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Weinstein . Joan . The end of expressionism : art and the November Revolution in Germany, 1918-19 . 1990 . University of Chicago Press . Chicago . 0226890597 .
  2. Wünsche . Isabel . 2022-12-12 . Keeper of Art: Reichskunstwart Edwin Redslob . 100 Years On: Revisiting the First Russian Art Exhibition of 1922, ed. Isabel Wünsche, Miriam Leimer, Böhlau Verlag eBooks.
  3. Web site: Deutschland . Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum, Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik . Gerade auf LeMO gesehen: LeMO Das lebendige Museum Online . 2024-11-22 . www.dhm.de . de.
  4. Web site: EHRI - Reichskunstwart . 2024-11-22 . portal.ehri-project.eu.
  5. Web site: Geschichte Erfurter Museen – . www.erfurt-web.de . official city portal of the state capital of Thuringia . 13 April 2019.
  6. Web site: Image of Reproduction from the Edwin Redslob collection: medal with the portrait . 2024-11-22 . www.bridgemanimages.com . en-US.
  7. Web site: Die Sammlung des Kunst- und Kulturhistorikers Edwin Redslob (1884-1973) : Christian Welzbacher .
  8. Web site: Edwin Redslob (1884-1973) . 2024-11-22 . www.stadtlexikon-stuttgart.de.
  9. Web site: 2006-09-25 . History . 2024-11-22 . www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de . en.
  10. Web site: Edwin Redslob . www.fu-berlin.de . Free University of Berlin . 13 April 2019 . en . 14 January 2011.

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