Wulff, Oskar [Konstantin]

Date born: 1864

Place Born:  St. Petersburg, Russia

Date died: 1946

Place died:  Berlin, Germany

Theoretician; professor in Berlin (1920s); Strzygowski (q.v.) student.  Raised in Estonia in a German family, he studied Archaeology and Philology in Dorplat and Petersburg.  In 1892 he studied art history in Leipzig under August Schmarsow (q.v.), developing the dominent enthusiasms for iconography and the psychology of art.  1895-99 he was in Istanbul (Russian Archaeologic Institute), and then in Berlin, first as a curatorial assistant in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum and after 1917 as the successor to Karl Frey (q.v.) as professor at the University of Berlin. At the Berlin museum his colleagues in Wilhelm Vöge (q.v.).

Home Country: Germany

Sources: Dilly, 30; KMP, 23 mentioned; Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. 496-499.

Bibliography: Grunlinien und kritische Erörterungen zur Prinzipienlehre der bildenden Kunst. Stuttgart: F. Enke, 1917.