Background
DEMUS, Otto was born on November 4, 1902 in. Harland. Son of Doctor Karl and Paula Demus.
DEMUS, Otto was born on November 4, 1902 in. Harland. Son of Doctor Karl and Paula Demus.
University of Vienna.
Assistant Institute for History of Art, University of Vienna 1928-1929. Keeper of monuments in Carinthia 1929-1936. Monuments officer in Federation Monuments Office 1936-1939.
Voluntary" emigration to England 1939.
Returned to Austria 1946. President Federation Monuments Office since 1946.
Lecturer on History of Art, University of Vienna 1937-1939, 1946-1951, Professor since 1951. Slade Professor Art, Cambridge 1968-1969.
Fellow, Society of Antiquaries 1960.
Commander Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana 1965, Grosses osterreichisches Verdienstzeiehen fur Kunst und Wissenschaft 1975, Mitchell.
Vienna Academy, of Science and Institute of Archaeology, Mainz Academy, of Sciences, Academy, des Inscriptions et BellesLettres, Academy Palermo, British Academy, Academy, of Athens, Academy, of Serbia. Ateneo Veneto.
Married Doctor Margarete Demus in 1953.