Dictionary of Art HistoriansFull Name
Redslob, Edwin
Other Names
"Edi"
Gender
Date Born
1894
Date Died
1973
Place Born
Place Died
Home Country
Overview
Reichskunstwart (federal art commissioner) during the Weimar Republic, 1919, and rebuilder of German art world post-World War II. His colleagues during this time at Heidelberg included Rosa Schapire, Walter Kaesbach, Emil Waldmann, and Ernst Kühnel.
Sources
Wendland, Ulrike. Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil: Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler. Munich: Saur, 1999, vol. 2, pp. 537-541; Sterne, Margaret Heiden. The Passionate Eye: the Life of William R. Valentiner. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1980, p. 40