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{{Short description|German art historian and museum director (1844–1933)}}
[[File:Karl Woermann.jpg|right|thumb|Grave relief of Woermann at the Urnenhain Tolkewitz in Dresden]]
'''Karl Woermann''' (4 July 1844 – 4 February 1933) was a [[Germans|German]] art historian and museum [[Managing director|director]].

== Biography ==
He was born in [[Hamburg]], studied at various universities (art history at [[Heidelberg]] and [[Munich]]), and traveled widely.  In 1871 Woermann participated in the so-called "[[Holbein convention]]" in [[Dresden]], at which a number of prominent art historians convened to determine which of two versions of [[Hans Holbein the Younger]]'s "[[Meyer Madonna]]" was the original work.
He was called to the academy at [[Düsseldorf]] in 1874 as [[professor]] of the history of art and literature.  In 1882 he became director of the picture gallery at [[Dresden]], of which he wrote the first [[Science|scientific]] [[Library catalogue|catalogue]] (1897). To the ''Geschichte der Malerei'', begun by [[Alfred Woltmann]], he contributed the part on antique painting, and after Woltmann's death completed the entire work. His work unites sound scholarship with sympathetic appreciation, and displays a generous attitude towards the research of others.

== Published works ==
He wrote, besides several series of [[poem]]s, works including:  
* ''Die Landschaft in der Kunst der alten Völker'' (1876)  
* ''Die antiken Odysseelandschaften vom Equilinischen Hügel in Rom'' (1877)  
* ''Kunst- und Naturskizzen aus Nord- und Südeuropa'' (1880)  
* ''Was uns die Kunstgeschichte lehrt'' (fourth edition, 1894)  
* ''Geschichte der Kunst aller Zeiten und Völker'' (three volumes, 1900–05)

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