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Creator
Edwin Carter Rae, Professor of Art History
Title
“Irish Sepulchral Monuments of the Later Middle Ages,” The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Vol. 100, Np. 1 (1970): 1-38
Description
After earning a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, Edwim Carter Rae began teaching at the University of Illinois in 1939. After a long stay abroad, he received his doctorate in 1943 on "Gothic Architecture in Ireland."
On August 22, 1945, Rae became the head of the department for the protection of cultural property in the American military government in Bavaria. Rae stood up for the Bavarian branch museums, the state and municipal collections in Augsburg, Nuremberg and Munich as well the German Museum, the Bavarian National Museum, the Bavarian State Library , the State Archives and the Germanic Museum. “Captain Rae” supported modern art, which was ostracized during the Nazi era, so that exhibitions by Xaver Fuhr , Max Beckmann , Ernst Wilhelm Nay , Franz Marc and Oskar Schlemmer could be shown in the Haus der Kunst. As "First Officer for Art Questions in Bavaria" he promoted the establishment of the Central Institute for Art History.
Rae became professor of art history at the University of Illinois in 1947 and set up a picture archive of Gothic sculpture and architecture in Ireland.
(adapted from https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_C._Rae)
On August 22, 1945, Rae became the head of the department for the protection of cultural property in the American military government in Bavaria. Rae stood up for the Bavarian branch museums, the state and municipal collections in Augsburg, Nuremberg and Munich as well the German Museum, the Bavarian National Museum, the Bavarian State Library , the State Archives and the Germanic Museum. “Captain Rae” supported modern art, which was ostracized during the Nazi era, so that exhibitions by Xaver Fuhr , Max Beckmann , Ernst Wilhelm Nay , Franz Marc and Oskar Schlemmer could be shown in the Haus der Kunst. As "First Officer for Art Questions in Bavaria" he promoted the establishment of the Central Institute for Art History.
Rae became professor of art history at the University of Illinois in 1947 and set up a picture archive of Gothic sculpture and architecture in Ireland.
(adapted from https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_C._Rae)
Date
1939-1942; 1947-1979