Wolfgang Lotz
German art historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Wolfgang Lotz was a German art historian specialized in Italian Renaissance architecture. Life and work Lotz first studied Law in Freiburg im Breisgau and then art history at the Universities of Munich and Hamburg, where he was a student of Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich. In 1937, he completed his Ph.D. dissertation on Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola's architecture. He first worked at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, and after his return from military service he was assigned to the International Commission for Monuments in Munich. Then he worked as deputy director at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich. In 1952, he was appointed professor of art at Vassar, replacing Richard Krautheimer. In 1959, he again replaced Krautheimer, this time at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. From 1962 on, he was director of the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute of Art History in Rome.
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