Kaesbach, Walter

Date born:  1879

Place Born:  Mönchengladbach, Germany

Date died:  1961

Place died:  Konstance

Director of the Art Academy in Berlin and Assistant Director of the National Gallery (under Justi, q.v.). During his time as a student at Heidelberg, his colleagues included Rosa Schapire (q.v.), Edwin Redslob (q.v.), Emil Waldmann (q.v.), Ernst Kühnel (q.v.). As director of the Städische Museum in Erfurt, Kaesbach hired the young art historian Werner Noack (q.v.) as his assistant.

Home Country:  Germany

Sources:  Wendland, Ulrike. Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil: Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler. Munich: Saur, 1999,  vol. 1, pp. 348-51.

Bibliography:  

0.Metzler