Alma Wittlin
Austrian-American art historian, writer, museologist and pedagogue (1899-1992)
Alma Stephanie Wittlin, Alma S. Wittlin, (March 23, 1899 Lemberg – December 31, 1991 Palo Alto) was an Austrian writer art historian, writer, educational theorist, émigré to Britain and the United States, and a museologist and heritologist. Her surname also appears as Wittlin-Frischauer.
Life
Born in or near Lviv, Austro-Hungarian Empire, she was educated in Vienna, receiving a doctorate in art history from the University of Vienna in 1925, and came to England in 1937. She carried out educational research at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. In 1952, she came to the United States and was naturalized in 1959.
In 1921, she married Paul Max Frischauer.
While in Austria, she wrote a number of successful historical novels.
Wittlin spent her youth in Vienna, where she attended Eugenie Schwarzwald’s famous reform-oriented secondary school, which helped her overcome the narrow-mindedness passed down in her family. She completed her school-leaving exams in 1918 and studied art history, anthropology, and philosophy in Vienna. In 1921 she married Paul Max Frischauer (1898-1977) - the marriage lasted until 1932).
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