Dictionary of Art Historians

Seidlitz, Woldemar von

Full Name
Seidlitz, Woldemar von
Gender
male
Date Born
1850
Date Died
1922
Place Born
St. Petersburg, Russia
Place Died
Dresden, Germany
Home Country
Germany
Overview

Museum director at Dresden. He collaborated with Georg Gronau on Leonardo scholarship.

Udo Kultermann sites Seidlitz among those Gründerzeit museum directors, along with Wilhelm Bode, Alfred Lichtwark, Justus Brinckmann, and Karl Woermann, as responsible for the formation of art history by virtue of their scholarship and interest in museum training.

Sources
Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. 382-4; Kultermann, Udo. The History of Art History. New York: Abaris, 1993, pp. 138.