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Gurlitt was born in Nischwitz in Thallwitz, Saxony, the son of the landscape painter Louis Gurlitt and nephew of his namesake, the composer Cornelius Gurlitt.
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Gurlitt was born in Nischwitz in Thallwitz, Saxony, the son of the landscape painter Louis Gurlitt and nephew of his namesake, the composer Cornelius Gurlitt.
Foreign Gurlitt"s grandson, the art collector of the same name, see Cornelius Gurlitt (art collector)
Cornelius Gustav Gurlitt (1 January 1850 – 25 March 1938) was a German architect and art historian. He left the gymnasium of Gotha before graduation and became a carpenter"s apprentice. After studying in Stuttgart and Vienna he worked as an architect, then obtained a position at the Arts and Crafts Museum in Dresden.
They had three children, the musicologist Wilibald Gurlitt, expressionist painter Cornelia Gurlitt (1890-1919) and the art dealer and historian Hildebrand Gurlitt.
Gurlitt died in Dresden in 1938 and is buried in the Johannisfriedhof. While an assistant at the Arts and Crafts Museum in Dresden, Gurlitt wrote a pioneering work on baroque art
This led to a doctorate and a professorship at the Technische Universität Dresden, where he worked until his emeritat in 1920. He often worked as a consultant with the architects Schilling & Graebner.
From 1894 he continued the Saxon inventory work of the art historian Franz Richard Steche.
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