Felix Becker (art historian)


Karl Günther Ernst Felix Becker was a German art historian, best known today for the project Thieme-Becker.

Life

He was the son of the glassmaker Johann Albert Adolph Becker and Johanna Wilhelmine Christiane nee Kumst. He studied art history at Bonn University and Leipzig University, acted as assistant to August Schmarsow and gained his doctorate in 1897 with a thesis on Early Netherlandish painting. He travelled widely before settling in Leipzig as a private scholar - there he and Ulrich Thieme edited the first four volumes of the Allgemeinen Lexikons der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart until he resigned in 1910 due to ill health.

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