Metadata: Kurz, Otto (1908-1975)
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- The Warburg Institute, University of London, School of Advanced Study
- Holding institution (official language):
- The Warburg Institute, University of London, School of Advanced Study
- Postal address:
- The Warburg Institute, University of LondonSchool of Advanced Study, Woburn SquareLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC1H 0AB
- Phone number:
- Telephone: 020 7862 8935/6
- Web address:
- https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
- Reference number:
- Otto Kurz
- Title:
- Kurz, Otto (1908-1975)
- Title (official language):
- Kurz, Otto (1908-1975)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kurz, Otto, 1908-1975, art historian and librarian
- Date(s):
- 1920/1975
- Language:
- English
- German
- Extent:
- 30 boxes
- Scope and content:
- Notes, working papers and correspondence of the art historian Otto Kurz, c 1930-1975. Topics covered include: the Baroque, notably the painters Guido Reni, Carracci; faked art; critical edition of Marco Polo's 'Description of the World'; Christian manuscripts; 'Die Legende vom Künstler' (Historiography); astrological manuscripts; Eastern astrology; cultural history of material goods; costume and Jewish Art.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Otto Kurz was born in Vienna, 1908 and studied Art History at the University there. He was a Research Assistant at the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg in Hamburg and the Warburg Institute in London (1933-1943), and subsequently Assistant Librarian (1943-1949) and Librarian (1949-1965) of the Institute, before becoming the Institute's Professor of the History of Classical Tradition (1966-1975). He was also a visting scholar at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1964) and Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University (1970-1971). He married Hilde Schüller in 1937. Died 1975.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Kurz, Otto
- Access, restrictions:
- Archive material is accessible for the purpose of private study and personal research and within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Archive reading room. Access is with permission from the Institute Director and by prior appointment only. Potential users are advised to browse the Institute website and contact the Archivist, Dr des Claudia Wedepohl, before planning a visit. Access to individual items in the Warburg Institute Archives may be restricted under the Data Protection Act or the Freedom of Information Act.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://archives.libraries.london.ac.uk/Details/archive/110030743
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
- Warburg Institute