Alfred Woltmann was a German

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 art historian. He was born at Charlottenburg

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, studied at Berlin

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 and Munich

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, and was appointed professor

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 of art history successively at the Polytechnicum in Karlsruhe

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 (1868) and at the universities of Prague

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 (1874) and Strasbourg

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 (1878). Conjointly with the author he adapted the fifth volume of Schnaase

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's Geschichte der bildenden Künste for the second edition (1872), and with Karl Woermann

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 began a Geschichte der Malerei (1878), completed after his death by his collaborator

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. Besides his principal work, Holbein und seine Zeit (second edition, 1873-76), he wrote:

• Die deutsche Kunst und Die Reformation (second edition, 1871)
• Die Baugeschichte Berlins (1872)
• Geschichte der deutschen Kunst in Elsass (1876)
• Die deutsche Kunst in Prag (1877)
• Aus vier Jahrhunderten niederländischdeutscher Kunstgeschichte (1878)