Redslob, Edwin ("Edi")

Date born:  1894

Place Born:  Weimar, Germany

Date died:  1973

Place died:  Berlin, Germany

Reichskunstwart (federal art commissioner) during the Weimar Republic, 1919, and rebuilder of German art world post-World War II. His colleagues during this time at Heidelberg included Rosa Schapire (q.v.), Walter Kaesbach (q.v.), Emil Waldmann (q.v.), and Ernst Kühnel (q.v.).

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. 2, pp. 537-541; Sterne, Margaret Heiden. The Passionate Eye: the Life of William R. Valentiner. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1980, p. 40

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