Franz Wickhoff (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Franz Wickhoff (1853, Steyr, Austria - 1909, Venice, Italy) was an Austrian art historian, and is considered a member of the Vienna School of Art History. Wickhoff studied at the University of Vienna under Alexander Conze and Moritz Thausing. In 1879 he received a position at the k.k. Osterreichisches Museum fur Kunst und Industrie (today the Museum fur angewandte Kunst) in Vienna, where he met Giovanni Morelli and became interested in his theories of connoisseurship. In 1882 Wichoff began to teach at the University of Vienna.