Dictionary of Art Historians

Michalski, Ernst

Full Name
Michalski, Ernst
Gender
male
Date Born
1901
Date Died
1936
Place Born
Berlin, Germany
Place Died
Munich, Germany
Home Country
Germany
Subject Area
Baroque
Rococo
Overview

Baroque/rococco scholar. Michalski was the assistant to Wilhelm Pinder who, when the Nazis took over in 1933, was forced to leave his position because he was a Jew.

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. 438-440; [transcript] "Otto von Simson, interviewed by Richard Cándida Smith." Art History Oral Documentation Project. Getty Research Institute, Malibu, CA, p. 12.