Bruno Grimschitz (23 April 1892 – 13 June 1964) was an Austrian art historian and museum director who belonged to the Nazi Party.
He studied art history from 1910 at the University of Vienna[1] under Max Dvořák and attended the Institute for Austrian Historical Research.
In 1918 he completed his studies with a dissertation on the subject of the artistic development of the architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt.
[6][7] The journalist Hubertus Czernin described his role in the Nazi regime as one of the main actors in the aryanization of Vienna's private art collections.
After the end of the Second World War, the State Office for Public Enlightenment, Education and Cultural Affairs removed Grimschitz from his post as director of the Belvedere Gallery by decree of 6 October 1945, due to his former NSDAP membership and put him into permanent retirement on 31 October 1947, as a "minor burden".