Die karolingischen Maler in Tours und die Bauhausmaler in Weimar. Wilhelm Koehler und Paul Klee
Tilmann Buddensieg
A biography of German art historian Wilhelm Koehler (1884–1959). Trained at various European institutions, worked as the museum director Weimarer Kunstsammlungen, Weimar. Here, he soon established a relationship with Bauhaus, befriended Paul Klee and Lyonel Feininger, rich exhibition practice in field modern despite financial difficulties. After his doctorate 1923, an art-history professor, first Germany then colleges universities United States, where lectured on wrote book about friend 1950. He secured high scholarly status magnum opus Carolingian manuscript illumination Marmoutier Abbey Tours, France, which was published two volumes in, respectively, 1930 1933. This article is based lecture delivered Zentralinstitut fur Kunstgeschichte Munich, Germany, December 2006 Universitat Wien, Vienna, November 2007.
Zeitschrift Fur Kunstgeschichte