Dictionary of Art HistoriansFull Name
Vitzthum von Eckstädt, Georg, Graf
Gender
Date Born
1880
Date Died
1945
Place Born
Place Died
Home Country
Overview
Art historian at Göttingen. Vitzthum's students included Wolfgang Stechow and Herbert von Einem, Klara Steinweg and Horst Gerson. Gerson remarked that he was "supersensitive...one called on him above all for politeness' sake."
Sources
Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp 425-7; mentioned in Gerson, Horst. "Wolfgang Stechow" Print Review 5: 74.