Tietze, Hans#
b. Prague (Czech Republic), March 1, 1880, d. New York (USA), April 11, 1954. Art historian. University professor in Vienna and New York with outstanding merits in aesthetics and art history, conservation of monuments and museology in Austria (restructured the Viennese museums after 1918); emigrated to the USA in 1938. He wrote many of his numerous publications with his wife, the art historian Erika T-Conrat (1883-1957).
Works#
12 Baende Oe. Kunsttopographie, 1907-1931; Die Methode der Kunstgeschichte, 1913; Krit. Verzeichnis der Werke A. Duerers, 2 vols., 1928-1938 (with E. T.-Conrat); Vienna, 1931; Tizian, 1936; Tintoretto, 1949.Literature#
E. Frodl-Kraft, H. T. 1880-1954, in: Oe. Ztschr. f. Kunst und Denkmalpflege 34, 1980.