Full Name: Förster, Otto H.
Other Names:
- Otto H. Förster
Gender: male
Date Born: 1894
Date Died: 1975
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): Italian (culture or style) and Renaissance
Overview
Director Wallraf-Richartz, and historian of Italian Renaissance Art. Förster wrote his dissertation under Heinrich Wölfflin in Munich. Förster became Director of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne in 1933. As a museum director under the Third Reich, he sold off works from the museum’s storage and acquired works from the forced sales of Jewish collections and from the occupied countries in exchange. At the end of World War II, Förster retired in 1946, but he resumed his position in 1957. In 1970 Foerster married the art historian Lotte Brand Foerster.
Selected Bibliography
monograph on Bramante
Sources
Wölfflin, Heinrich. Heinrich Wölfflin, 1864-1945: Autobiographie, Tagebücher und Briefe. Joseph Ganter, ed. Basel: Schwabe & Co., 1982, p. 499; Bazin 435