Full Name: Drost, Willi
Gender: male
Date Born: 1892
Date Died: 1964
Place Born: Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Place Died: Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): architecture (object genre), Baroque, formalism, and sculpture (visual works)
Overview
Scholar of baroque architecture, blended formalism of Heinrich Wölfflin with Geistesgeschichte of Max Dvořák for his methodology. He was born in Danzig, Prussia which is present-day Gdańsk, Poland.
Selected Bibliography
Kunstdenkmäler der Stadt Danzig. (Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des deutschen Ostens. Series A) 5 vols. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1957-72. Barockmalerei in den germanischen ländern. Wildpark-Potsdam: Akademische verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion m.b.h. ,1926.
Sources
Bazin 374; Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 1999, pp. 62-65.