The New International Encyclopædia/Wurzbach, Alfred, von Tannenberg

WURZBACH, vōōrts'bäK, Alfred, von Tannenberg (1846—). An Austrian art-critic, born at Lemberg, son of the following. He studied jurisprudence in Vienna and entered the civil service, but resigned in 1876 and devoted himself entirely to the study of art-history. In 1881-86 he was art-critic for the Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung. Under the title Zeitgenossen he published a series of biographical sketches (1871-72), and afterwards the monograph Martin Schongauer (1881), a Geschichte der holländischen Malerei (1885), besides biographies of Dutch and Flemish painters in Dohme's Kunst und Künstler (1876). He also edited the éditions de luxe of Die französischen Maler des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts (1879-80), Die goldene Bibel (1880), and Rembrandt-Galerie (1885), and translated Houbraken's Groote schouburgh der nederlandsche konstschilders (1879).