Full Name: Schultz, Alwin
Gender: male
Date Born: 1838
Date Died: 1909
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): Renaissance
Institution(s): 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