Edwin Redslob
Edwin Redslob (22 September 1884, Weimar – 24 January 1973, West Berlin) was the Reichskunstwart under the Weimar Republic.[1]:86 Appointed in 1920, he was the only person to fulfil this role as the position was abolished following the Nazi seizure of power in 1933.
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Edwin Redslob
In 1912 he was appointed to run the Angermuseum in Erfurt where he remained until 1919.[2]
In 1945 he co-founded the Berlin daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, and then in 1948, he was one of the co-initiators in the founding of the Freie Universität Berlin.[3] He was a Professor at the university teaching Art History from 1948 to 1954. He was also rector from 1949 to 1950.[3]
References
- Weinstein, Joan (1990). The end of expressionism : art and the November Revolution in Germany, 1918-19. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226890597.
- "Geschichte Erfurter Museen –". www.erfurt-web.de. official city portal of the state capital of Thuringia. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- "Edwin Redslob". www.fu-berlin.de. Free University of Berlin. 14 January 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
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