Fritz Saxl
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Friedrich "Fritz" Saxl was the art historian who was the guiding light of the Warburg Institute, especially during the long mental breakdown of its founder, Aby Warburg, whom he succeeded as director.
"Fritz" Saxl
Julius von Schlosser
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Julius Alwin Franz Georg Andreas Ritter von Schlosser was an Austrian art historian and an important member of the Vienna School of Art History. According to Ernst Gombrich, he was "One of the most di
Fritz Saxl
…during the long mental breakdown of its founder, Aby Warburg, whom he succeeded as director. Saxl studied in his native Vienna under Franz Wickhoff, Julius von Schlosser and Max Dvořák, who oversaw his dissertation on Rembrandt. Then in Berlin Saxl studied under Heinrich Wölfflin, and spent 1912–13 researching in Italy…
Bust of Julius von Schlosser at the Arkadenhof of the University of Vienna