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Dussler, Luitpold

    Full Name: Dussler, Luitpold

    Gender: male

    Date Born: 1895

    Date Died: 1976

    Place Born: Munich, Bavaria, Germany

    Place Died: Munich, Bavaria, Germany

    Home Country/ies: Germany

    Subject Area(s): Italian (culture or style), Italian Renaissance-Baroque styles, and Renaissance


    Overview

    Scholar of Italian Renaissance artists, especially Michelangelo. Dussler attended the university in Munich. He served as a soldier in World War I. Afterward, Dussler worked in the Bavarian State Museums. He received a scholarship from the German Institute in Florence, completing his habilitation in 1929, qualifying as a lecturer at the Technische Hochschule in Munich. He advanced to associate professor in 1934. With the rise of the Nazis in Germany, Dussler became a National Socialist (Nazi) denouncing Jews working in Bavarian academics, among them his colleague August Liebmann Mayer. After World War II, Dussler was appointed full professor in 1947.


    Selected Bibliography

    Benedetto da Majano, ein Florentiner bildhauer des späten quattrocento. Munich: H. Schmidt, 1924; Signorelli, des Meisters Gemälde. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1927; Giovanni Bellini. Frankfurt a. Main: Prestel-verlag, 1935; Sebastiano del Piombo. Basel: Holbein-verlag, 1942; Francesco Guardi. Munich-Pasing: Filser, 1948; Das sienesische Madonnenbild. Aschaffenburg: P. Pattloch, 1948; Giovanni Bellini. Vienna: A. Schroll, 1949; Die Incunabeln der deutschen Lithographie (1796-1821). Heidelberg, R. Weissbach, 1955; Die Zeichnungen des Michelangelo; kritischer Katalog. Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1959; Raphael: a Critical Catalogue of his Pictures, Wall-paintings and Tapestries. New York: Phaidon, 1971; Michelangelo-Bibliographie, 1927-1970. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1974.


    Sources

    Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie. Munich: K.G. Saur, 1995ff. vol. 2: 657; Wendland, Ulrike. “Mayer, August Liebmann.” Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil: Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler. Munich: Saur, 1999, vol. 1, pp. 429.




    Citation

    "Dussler, Luitpold." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/dusslerl/.


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