#ottolehman

Otto Lehmann-Brockhaus (1909–1999) studied art history, philosophy and history at the universities of Marburg, Innsbruck, Rostock and Göttingen from 1928 to 1934.Otto received his doctorate from Count Vitzhum in 1934. After years of research at the Bibliotheca Hertziana from 1937 to 1945, he headed the library of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich from 1948 and later also as a techer at Munich University.In 1962 he became senior librarian at the Bibliotheca Hertziana and later headed the institute alongside Wolfgang Lotz as director until 1977.Until his death he was an emeritus academic member of the Bibliotheca Hertziana. In 1971, 1978 and 1991, Otto Lehmann-Brockhaus donated a total of 3,500 black-and-white photographs and negatives of architecture and sculpture, mainly from Italy, but also from Yugoslavia and Spain, to the library, which the researcher made between 1967 and 1975.