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Benesch, Otto


Benesch, Otto, b. Ebenfurth (Lower Austria), June 29, 1896, d. Vienna, Nov. 16, 1964, art historian. 1923-1938 civil servant at the Albertina, 1938 emigration, 1938-1947 taught at universities in Great Britain and the USA, 1947-1961 director of the Albertina and university professor in Vienna; specialist in Rembrandt and in the history of painting and graphic art from 1400 to modern times.


Works: Österreichische Handzeichnungen des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts ,1936; Rembrandt, Werk und Forschung, 1935; The Art of the Renaissance in Northern Europe, 1945; Rembrandt, Selected Drawings, 1948; Kleine Geschichte der Kunst in Österreich, 1950; E. Schiele als Zeichner, 1951; Meisterzeichnungen der Albertina, 1963; Kritisches Gesamtverzeichnis der Zeichnungen Rembrandts, 6 vols., 1964.

Literature: Biographisches Handbuch der deutsch-sprachigen Emigration nach 1933, Bd. 2, 1983.


 
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