Werner Weisbach
Werner Weisbach was a German-Swiss art historian.
He studied art history, archaeology, history and philosophy at the universities of Freiburg, Berlin, Munich and Leipzig, receiving his promotion from the latter institution in 1896. Following a study trip through Europe, he served as a volunteer at the Museum of Berlin under the directorship of Wilhelm von Bode. From 1903 onward, he worked as a lecturer at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin, where from 1921 to 1933 he taught classes as an associate professor of art history. During the era of National Socialism he emigrated to Basel, Switzerland as a private scholar.
Selected works
Impressionismus; ein problem der malerei in der antike und neuzeit - Impressionism; a problem of painting in antiquity and modern times. Kriegsziele und deutscher idealismus, 1915 - War aims and German idealism.Der Barock als Kunst der Gegenreformation, 1921 - Baroque as an art of counterreformation. Die italienische Stadt der Renaissance, 1922 - The Italian city of the Renaissance.Kunst des Barock in Italien, Frankreich, Deutschland und Spanien, 1924 - Baroque art in Italy, France, Germany and Spain.Rembrandt, 1926 - On Rembrandt.- In English: Spanish baroque art; three lectures delivered at the University of London, 1941.Manierismus in mittelalterlicher Kunst, 1942 - Mannerism in medieval art.Religiöse Reform und mittelalterliche Kunst, 1945 - Religious reform and medieval art.Vincent van Gogh; Kunst und Schicksal, 1949 - Vincent van Gogh, art and fate.Die Basler Buchillustration des XV. Jahrhunderts, 1957 - The Basler Buchillustration of the 15th century.