Vitzthum von Eckstädt, Georg, Graf

Date born: 1880

Place born:  Oberlössnitz, Germany

Date died:  1945

Place died:  Göttingen, Germany

Art historian at Göttingen. Vitzthum's students included Wolfgang Stechow (q.v.) and Herbert von Einem (q.v.), Klara Steinweg (q.v.) and Horst Gerson (q.v.).  Gerson remarked that he was "supersensitive . . . one called on him above all for politeness' sake."

Home Country:  Germany

Sources:  Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp  425-7; mentioned in Gerson, Horst.  "Wolfgang Stechow" Print Review 5: 74.

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