Fedja Anzelewsky

Fedja Erik Allan Anzelewsky (17 March 1919, Nordhausen – 18 May 2010, Berlin) was a German art historian, best known for his internationally recognised monographs on Albrecht Dürer.

[1][2] Born in Nordhausen, he gained his doctorate at the Freien Universität Berlin in 1954 with a thesis on Motif and Exemplum in Durer's early woodcuts.

Dürer remained a keen interest throughout his career and he published internationally-recognised works on him.

From 1954 he worked at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in Berlin-Dahlem, from 1957 as an assistant in its prints and drawings department, from 1960 its custodian and from 1977 to 1984 its director.

He also taught as an honorary professor at the Free University of Berlin's Art Historical Institute.