Dictionary of Art Historians

Kaesbach, Walter

Full Name
Kaesbach, Walter
Gender
male
Date Born
1879
Date Died
1961
Place Born
Mönchengladbach, Germany
Place Died
Konstanz, Germany
Home Country
Germany
Overview

Director of the Art Academy in Berlin and Assistant Director of the National Gallery (under Ludwig Justi). During his time as a student at Heidelberg, his colleagues included Rosa Schapire, Edwin Redslob, Emil Waldmann, Ernst Kühnel. As director of the Städische Museum in Erfurt, Kaesbach hired the young art historian Werner Noack as his assistant.

Selected Bibliography
0.Metzler
Sources
Wendland, Ulrike. Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil: Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler. Munich: Saur, 1999, vol. 1, pp. 348-51.