Alfred Wurzbach Ritter von Tannenberg (born 22 July 1846 in Lemberg; died 18 May 1915 in

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) was an

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n art critic.

Biography

He was the son of

Constantin von Wurzbach Constantin Wurzbach Ritter von Tannenberg (11 April 1818 – 17 August 1893) was an Austrian biographer, lexicographer and author. Biography He was born in Laibach, Carniola (present-day Ljubljana, Slovenia).He later went on to complete a cou ...

. He studied

jurisprudence Jurisprudence, or legal theory, is the theoretical study of the propriety of law. Scholars of jurisprudence seek to explain the nature of law in its most general form and they also seek to achieve a deeper understanding of legal reasoning a ...

in Vienna and entered the civil service, but resigned in 1876 and devoted himself entirely to the study of

art history Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

. He was art critic for the ''Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung'' from 1881 to 1886.

Works

Under the title ''Zeitgenossen'' he published a series of biographical sketches (1871–72), and afterwards the monograph ''

Martin Schongauer Martin Schongauer (c. 1450–53, Colmar – 2 February 1491, Breisach), also known as Martin Schön ("Martin beautiful") or Hübsch Martin ("pretty Martin") by his contemporaries, was an Alsatian engraver and painter. He was the most important ...

'' (1881), a ''Geschichte der holländischen Malerei'' (History of Dutch painting, 1885), besides biographies of Dutch and Flemish painters in Dohme's ''Kunst und Künstler'' (Art and artists, 1876). He also edited dictionaries of artist biographies, and compiled ''Rembrandt-Galerie'' (1885), and translated Houbraken's ''

The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters ''The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters and Paintresses'', or ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'', as it was originally known in Dutch, is a series of artist biographies with engraved portraits written by the 1 ...

'' (original Dutch edition 1718). * ''Laura: Eine Novelle in Versen'', 1873 * ''Die französischen Maler des 18. Jahrhunderts'' (French painters of the 18th century), 1879 * ''Grosse Schouburgh der niederländischen Maler und Malerinnen'', 1879
Grosse Schouburgh der niederländischen Maler und Malerinnen
', 1880, online version on

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* ''Die goldene Bibel'' (The golden Bible), 1880 * ''Rembrandt-Galerie: Eine Auswahl von hundert Gemälden'', 1886 * ''Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon'', 3 Volumes, 1911

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