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Erica Tietze-conrat218 damaged his hearing, but now he was no longer proud of these duels although he was endeared to us as our pet. From the first day on we were fully aware of his scholarly talents and knowledge. A paper which he had worked for the seminar, the story of Michelangelo’s Cartoon of the Bat- tle,46 showed him on an incomparably higher level than anything we others could produce. Wickhoff opened up to him and we realized that the reserve which he had shown to us had been his healthy attitude towards our mediocrity. Koehler being the untouched child in many di- rections was precocious as a scholar. (We certain- ly were slow to develop. In some way Wickhoff and his assistant Dvořák, were to blame; Dehio and Clemen47 had been better teachers than the “Wiener Schule” at the late time). Up to Riegl’s death Schlosser was a museum man and his seminar was a causerie only held in his collection. It had the flavor of the impromp- tu48. The tall man, so tall and statuesque that his eye never stooped down to one of us, opened a showcase and usually picked out the tiniest of the objects so that it was hidden in his palm and we caught no more than a glimpse. Then he mum- bled its history, relation to, connection with, etc. etc., usually information which he had already published in […]. I never heard a real lecture by him but was well acquainted with his articles, since Wickhoff had assigned to us report on them in the semi- nar. His stylistic mannerisms became a never exhausted source of hilarity for us. The tenor of his footnotes in which he thanked a colleague for information […]. 46 Das Th ema war auch Wilhelm Köhlers Doktorarbeit: Michelangelos Schlachtenkarton. Ein Rekonstruktionsver- such, Wien 1906. 47 Der Mediävist Paul Clemen (1886–1947) war Ordinarius für Kunstgeschichte an der Universität Bonn. Bei seinen Wien-Besuchen logierte er öfters im Hause Tietze. 48 Hervorhebung durch die Verfasserin. Abbildungsnachweis: Abb. 1: Archiv des Instituts für Kunstgeschichte der Universität Wien.