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Redslob, Edwin

    Full Name: Redslob, Edwin

    Other Names:

    • "Edi"

    Gender: male

    Date Born: 1894

    Date Died: 1973

    Place Born: Weimar, Thuringia, Germany

    Place Died: Berlin, Germany

    Home Country/ies: Germany


    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




    Citation

    "Redslob, Edwin." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/redslobe/.


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