Biographical dates - Period of existence1848 – 1904
Other InformationHans Grisebach was a German architecht. During the final ten or so years of his life he devoted more and more time to his book collection, which he had been gathering since he was a young man. In 1906, backed by finance from various printers and publishers, around 2,000 books from his library were acquired for the library of the Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts) in Berlin. The focus of the collection is on European arts from the earliest times till the beginning of the nineteenth century. It includes numerous incunabula and abundant source material on architecture history and theory. While many of Grisebach's most important architectural work - especially in the Berlin area - were damaged or destroyed during the Second World War, the core of his book collection, held at what is now the Berlin Arts Museum, has survived largely intact. [source: Irmgard Wirth, "Grisebach, Hans" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 7 (1966), S. 99-100 [Online-Version]; URL: <https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd124637817.html#ndbcontent>]
Biographical dates - Period of existence1848 – 1904
Other InformationHans Grisebach was a German architecht. During the final ten or so years of his life he devoted more and more time to his book collection, which he had been gathering since he was a young man. In 1906, backed by finance from various printers and publishers, around 2,000 books from his library were acquired for the library of the Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts) in Berlin. The focus of the collection is on European arts from the earliest times till the beginning of the nineteenth century. It includes numerous incunabula and abundant source material on architecture history and theory. While many of Grisebach's most important architectural work - especially in the Berlin area - were damaged or destroyed during the Second World War, the core of his book collection, held at what is now the Berlin Arts Museum, has survived largely intact. [source: Irmgard Wirth, "Grisebach, Hans" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 7 (1966), S. 99-100 [Online-Version]; URL: <https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd124637817.html#ndbcontent>]