Lányi, Jenö

Date born:  1902

Place Born:  Várna, Hungary (modern Slovakia)

Date died:  1940

Place died:  near England, on a destroyed boat

Italian renaissance scholar of sculpture, career cut short when the ship he was immigrating on was torpedoed during WW II.  Thomas Mann's son-in-law.

His writings were the later influence for John Pope-Hennessey (q.v.) of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Home Country:  Germany/United States

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. 419-20.

Bibliography:  

0.Metzler