Full Name: Zahn, Albert von
Gender: male
Date Born: 1836
Date Died: 1873
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): painting (visual works)
Overview
Director of the Weimar Museum, instigator of the famous “Holbein convention” of 1871 which set out to determine the authenticity of the two Burgomeister Meyer Madonna (Dresden and Darmstadt). To Zahn’s dismay, the autograph Holbein was the one in Darmstadt and not the Saxony one.
Sources
Kultermann, Udo. The History of Art History. New York: Abaris, 1993, p. 141.