Oskar Schürer

Born in Augsburg on October 22, 1892, he studied art history, philosophy, and architecture in Munich, Berlin, Marburg, and Freiburg. His education was interrupted by the First World War, but he returned to his studies afterward and earned his doctorate in 1920 under the art historian Richard Hamann in Marburg.

From the 1920s onward, he wrote art criticism and later lived in Prague as a writer. Prague became especially important to him, both as a city he admired and as a subject for his work. He also taught at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, later at the University of Munich, and from 1942 held an associate professorship in art history at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

Remembered as a German art historian, writer, and university teacher, he died in Heidelberg on April 29, 1949. The sources found here confirm his scholarly and literary career, but they did not provide a clear, usable portrait image from a reliable page.