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.