Dictionary of Art Historians

Schultz, Alwin

Full Name
Schultz, Alwin
Gender
male
Date Born
1838
Date Died
1909
Home Country
Germany
Subject Area
Renaissance
Institution
Charles University
Overview

Scholar of the renaissance, including art history. He successfully recruited Cornelius Gurlitt to write the baroque sections for the Allgemeine Geschichte der bildenden Künste left unfinished by Karl Julius Ferdinand Schnaase, which Schultz was re-editing.

Selected Bibliography
Allgemeine Kunstgeschichte der Renaissance: Architektur, Plastik, Malerei. 2 vols. Berlin: G. Grote, 1898 [Possibly v. 3 of his Allgemeine Geschichte der bildenden Künste]; and Lübke, Wilhelm. Die romanische Kunst. 1871, volume IV of Schnaase, Karl. Geschichte der bildenden Künste. 2nd ed. 8 vols. Stuttgart: Ebner & Seubert, 1866-79.
Sources
Kultermann, Udo. The History of Art History. New York: Abaris, 1993, p. 136 [Kulterman misidentifies the edition as Kugler].
Contributors
Lee Sorensen