Wolfgang Born
(1893-1949)
Biographical
An art historian, painter, and author. He served during World War I, and
began to study art after the war in Munich and Paris. He illustrated
Thomas Mann's Death in Venice in 1921, and then moved to Vienna
working as a journalist, illustrator, and art critic. After studying art
history at the universities in Munich and Vienna, he emigrated to the
United States to avoid Jewish persecution in 1937. He was Art Director
at Maryville College, St. Louis, MO. In 1944, he taught at Queens
College, New York; was professor of Art History at Louisiana State
University, New Orleans, 1945-1948; professor of art history at Hunter
College (City University of New York), 1948. The most notable of his
published works is his 1948 American Landscape Painting; an
Interpretation. He became an American citizen in 1943.[Q37]
Place of birth: Breslau, Silesia[M23]
Place of second marriage: Louisiana[Q37]
Place of death: New York City[M23]
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