| LC control no. | nr 95022064 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cohn-Wiener, Ernst, 1882-1941 |
| Variant(s) | Wiener, Ernst Cohn-, 1882-1941 Kon-Viner, 1882-1941 Cohn, Ernst, 1882-1941 |
| Located | Great Britain India |
| Birth date | 1882-12-25 |
| Death date | 1941-04-13 |
| Place of birth | Tilsit (Germany) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Islamic art Jewish art |
| Affiliation | Jüdische Volkshochschule Berlin American Institute for Iranian Art and Archaeology |
| Profession or occupation | Art historians |
| Found in | Travelling report for the time of February-April 1936, 1937: t.p. (Ernst Cohn-Wiener) LC in RLIN, 6-9-95 (hdg.: Cohn-Wiener, Ernst, 1882-1941) Istorii︠a︡ stileĭ izobrazitelʹnykh iskusstv, 1998: t.p. (Kon-Viner) encyclopedia.com, April 4, 2022 (Cohn-Wiener, Ernst (1882-1941); German art historian; Cohn-Wiener was born in Tilsit; after studying the history of art, archaeology, and philosophy, Cohn-Wiener worked as an art historian at the Jüdische Volkshochschule and the Humboldt Academy in Berlin; initially a specialist in German gothic sculpture, his principal fields of interest became Islamic and Jewish art as well as study of the Near and Far East, which he visited during a research expeditions in Russia, Asia Minor, Turkestan, and China (1924-1925); his chief works are Die Juedische Kunst (1929) and Turan (1930); in 1933 he emigrated to Great Britain and in 1934 to India, where he was appointed as manager of the museums and art school in Baroda; in 1939 he settled in the United States and taught at the American Institute for Iranian Art and Archaeology until his death in New York in 1941) Wikipeida, German, April 4, 2022 (Ernst Cohn-Wiener; born Ernst Cohn on 25 December 1882 in Tilsit [now Sovetsk, Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia]; died 13 April 1941 in New York; German art historian;he studied art history in Berlin and Heidelberg; Cohn-Wiener received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg in 1907 and then taught adult education at the Humboldt Academy, the largest adult education center in Berlin, until 1933; in 1921 he married Eva Margarete Brasch; due to his Jewish descent, he was dismissed from his position after the Nazis came to power in 1933 and emigrated together with his wife to England in 1933 and then to India in 1934, where he worked at the art museum in Vadodara and published a catalog of the European paintings there; for health reasons he moved to the United States in 1939; he died in New York in 1941 at the age of 59) ancestry.com, April 4, 2022 (Ernst Cohn-Wiener; born 25 December 1882 in Tilsit, Königsberg, Russland; died 13 April 1941 in New York, New York) |
 |  |  |
View this record in: MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)
