author
Hans Mackowsky
1871–1938
A Berlin-born art historian with a deep love of sculpture and the cultural history of his city, this writer helped bring major German artists and monuments to life for a wider public. His books on figures like Schadow and Schinkel reflect a careful, passionate eye for art and history.
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Verrocchio
by Hans Mackowsky
About the author
Born in Berlin on November 19, 1871, Hans Mackowsky studied art history in Berlin and Freiburg and earned his doctorate in 1893. He went on to work with the Berlin museums, including the Gemäldegalerie and the sculpture collections, building a career as a respected scholar of German art.
He became especially known for writing about artists and sculptors such as Andrea del Verrocchio, Johann Gottfried Schadow, and Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Alongside his museum work, he also taught as a lecturer in Berlin, and his writing was valued for making art history vivid and accessible.
Mackowsky died in Potsdam on July 18, 1938. Remembered as an important German art historian, he left behind a body of work closely tied to Berlin's artistic heritage and to the study of sculpture, architecture, and artists of the eighteenth through twentieth centuries.