Johannes Wilde
Art Historian, Author
1891 – 1970
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Who was Johannes Wilde?
Johannes Wilde was a Hungarian art historian and teacher of art history. He later became an Austrian, and then a British, citizen. He was a noted expert on the drawings of Michelangelo. He was a pioneer of the use of X-rays as a tool for the study of both the creation and the state of conservation of paintings. From 1948 to 1958 he was deputy director of the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
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- Born
- Jul 2, 1891
Budapest - Also known as
- Janós Wilde
- Nationality
- Hungary
- Austria
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Died
- Sep 13, 1970
Dulwich
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on July 23, 2013
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