Wilhelm Boeck
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Wilhelm Boeck (21 May 1908 - 6 July 1998) was a German art historian.[1]
He was born in Giessen and from 1926 to 1931 studied classical archaeology and art history there and in Munich, Vienna and Berlin. He was a pupil of Edmund Hildebrandt[2] and in 1929 won the Grimm Foundation Prize from the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Career
He taught as a lecturer (from 1941) and an unscheduled professor (from 1948) at the University of Tübingen.[3] After the Second World War he was "one of the first German art historians to engage successfully with Cézanne's art and Picasso's work", though he was marginalised by Tübingen professor Hubert Schrade.[4]
His main area of expertise was Gothic sculpture, the early Renaissance in Italy, Baroque Germany and 20th century art.[3] As well as Cézanne and Picasso, his work particularly focussed on the art of HAP Grieshaber,[4] publishing the first ever monograph on Grieshaber in 1959,[5] the same year as Boeck won the Bodensee-Literaturpreis.[6]
Honors and awards
In 1989, he was awarded the Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg.[7]
