Klara Steinweg (1903–1972) was a German art historian, specializing in the

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. She was a collaborator with

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on the ''Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting'', from 1930 to 1965.

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Klara Steinweg was born on 18 May 1903 in

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. She started her studies in 1922 under

Heinrich Wölfflin Heinrich Wölfflin (; 21 June 1864 – 19 July 1945) was a Swiss art historian, esthetician and educator, whose objective classifying principles (" painterly" vs. "linear" and the like) were influential in the development of formal analysis in ...

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, and later with

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at the

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. By 1925, she was in

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working on writing her dissertation on

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under , which was published in 1929. In 1930, she became an assistant to Richard Offner and moved to Berlin. She started her work on volume 4 of the book series ''Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting''. In 1935, she moved to Florence to continue her work with Offner. With the outbreak of

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(in 1939), where she remained until the end of the war, and she continued to work almost exclusively on the Offner project until 1965. She lived in Florence until her death in 1972. Richard Offner died on 26 August 1965 in Florence, aged 76. His project then moved to the

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, where Steinweg was appointed a co-author of the work.

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and Mina Gregori continued the project work. Steinweg died on 10 June 1972, aged 69, in Meerbusch, Rhein-Kreis Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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