Ernst Dessauer

Ernst Dessauer is a German-language author remembered for Wackenroders »Herzensergießungen eines kunstliebenden Klosterbruders« in ihrem Verhältnis zu Vasari, a literary-historical study published in Berlin in 1907. The work also identifies him as Dr. Ernst Dessauer, showing that he wrote as a scholar rather than simply as a general essayist.

The book places him in Vienna at the time of publication, and his subject matter suggests a strong interest in German Romanticism, art history, and the way literature speaks to painting and artistic ideas. His criticism is focused and academic, but it is also clearly aimed at readers who care about the inner life of art.

Reliable biographical details about his life appear to be scarce in the sources I could confirm, so it is safest to remember him mainly through this substantial study and his contribution to literary scholarship.