Biography
Exlibris , illustrations, publicity, later: art historian, editor, reviewer, collector. Born 17 November 1887 in Kaufbeuren. 1905-8: studied at the Munich Kunstgewerbeschule: a teacher was Julius Diez. From 1908: worked for the journal Jugend. 1930: Editor of the short-lived art journal Der Kunstsammler (The art collector), Munich: Schmidt. 1935: consultant to the journal Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten. Died 27 April 1953 in Munich.
Writings by
- Reviews of the Munich art market in Der Kunstsammler, 1930
- Alte Kunst, lebendig, Frankfurt a.M. : Bauer, 1942 (privately printed)
- Madonnen Engel Sterne, Vienna/Bad Bocklet/Zurich: Krieg, 1952 ( biblio of HW’s writings, p. 239).
Writings about
- Die Sammlung Hubert Wilm in München, Leipzig: Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1929 ,
- ‘Die Kunstsammlung im Schloss zu Berchjtesgaden’, in Alte Kunstschätze aus Bayern ( : ed.), Ulm: Höhn, 1934, pp. 67-83
- / (extensive list of German journals)
- 1961 ,
- Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie, Munich, London, New Providence: K.G. Saur 1995- (from 1997: Munich only)., 1999.