Alfred Wurzbach Ritter von Tannenberg (born 22 July 1846 in Lemberg; died 18 May 1915 in Vienna

Vienna

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) was an Austria

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n art critic

Art critic

An art critic is a person who specializes in evaluating art. Their written critiques, or reviews, are published in newspapers, magazines, books and on web sites...

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Biography

He was the son of Constantin von Wurzbach

Constantin von Wurzbach

Constantin Wurzbach Ritter von Tannenberg was an Austrian biographer.-Biography:...

. He studied jurisprudence

Jurisprudence

Jurisprudence is the theory and philosophy of law. Scholars of jurisprudence, or legal theorists , hope to obtain a deeper understanding of the nature of law, of legal reasoning, legal systems and of legal institutions...

 in Vienna and entered the civil service

Civil service

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, but resigned in 1876 and devoted himself entirely to the study of art history

Art history

Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...

. He was art critic for the Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung from 1881 to 1886.

Works

Under the title Zeitgenossen he published a series of biographical sketches (1871-72), and afterwards the monograph Martin Schongauer

Martin Schongauer

Martin Schongauer was a German engraver and painter. He was the most important German printmaker before Albrecht Dürer....

(1881), a Geschichte der holländischen Malerei (History of Dutch painting, 1885), besides biographies of Dutch and Flemish painters in Dohme's Kunst und Künstler (Art and artists, 1876). He also edited the éditions de luxe of Die französischen Maler des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts (French painters of the 18th century, 1879-80), Die goldene Bibel (The golden Bible, 1880), and Rembrandt-Galerie (1885), and translated Houbraken

Arnold Houbraken

Arnold Houbraken was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of artists from the Dutch Golden Age. He had ten children. His son Jacobus Houbraken was an engraver of portraits and book illustrations, including books by his father...

's Groote schouburgh der nederlandsche konstschilders (The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters, 1879; original Dutch edition 1718).