Lottlisa Behling
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Lottlisa Behling | |
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| Born | 15 July 1909 |
| Died | 9 January 1989 (aged 79) |
| Occupations | Botanist, Art historian, University professor |
| Notable work | Research in iconography |
Lottlisa Behling (15 July 1909 – 9 January 1989)[1] was a German art historian and botanist.
Lottlisa Behling was born on 15 July 1909 in Neustettin, Pomerania. She was a double major in art history and botany at the universities of Greifswald, Halle and Berlin. She received her doctorate degree 1937 in Berlin. Her doctoral thesis was titled Das ungegenständliche Bauornament der Gotik. Versuch einer Geschichte des Maßwerks.
After graduation she worked at the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin and became a professor for medieval art and ornaments at the University of Jena in 1953. Two years later she received her habilitation at the Humboldt-University Berlin and became associate director of the institute of art history at the university of Jena. In 1958, she left East Germany, and taught at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Since 1960 she taught art history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.[1][2]
Her research focus were the iconography of plants in medieval art and late medieval drawing. Her publications Die Pflanzen in der mittelalterlichen Tafelmalerei and Die Pflanzenwelt der mittelalterlichen Kathedralen are considered reference books.[1] and have been reviewed in the Theologische Literaturzeitung,[3]
