Karl neumann artist biography
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Full Name: Neumann, Carl
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Gender: male
Date Born: 1 July 1860
Date Died: 9 October 1934
Place Born: Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Place Died: Heidelberg, Saxony, Germany
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): Dutch (culture or style)
Career(s): educators
Overview
University of Heidelberg professor of art; wrote first full monograph on Rembrandt (1902).
Neumann was the son of a wealthy Jewish mercantile family. In 1878 he entered the university in Heidelberg to study history. By 1880 he had switched to Berlin, attending the lectures of Nitsch and the historian Heinrich von Treitschke (1834-1896).
Karl neumann artist biography
He returned to Heidelberg in 1882 to receive his Ph.D. with a dissertation topic on Bernhard von Clairvaux and the beginnings of the second crusade. Neumann went to Basel to hear the lectures Jacob Burckhardt, which turned his interest to art history.
At the end of the 1880 Neuman began displaying signs of mental illness, depression and