Dictionary of Art Historians

Waldmann, Emil

Full Name
Waldmann, Emil
Gender
male
Date Born
1880
Date Died
1945
Place Born
Bremen, Germany
Place Died
Würzburg, Germany
Home Country
Germany
Overview

Waldmann's touching eulogy to Julius Meier-Graefe demonstrated his appreciation for the historiography of art in genres other than his own. During his time as a student at Heidelberg, his colleagues included Rosa Schapire, Edwin Redslob, Walter Kaesbach, Ernst Kühnel.

Sources
Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. 449-52; [Meier-Graefe comment] Kultermann, Udo. The History of Art History. New York: Abaris, 1993, p. 156