Julius Baum

Julius Baum (born 9 April 1882 in Wiesbaden; died 27 October 1959 in Stuttgart) was a German art historian, teacher and museum director.

From 1918 to 1933, he taught as associate professor of medieval art history at the Technical University of Stuttgart.

[4] After the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, Baum was temporarily interned in the Welzheim protective custody camp and emigrated to Bern, Switzerland in 1939.

Theodor Heuss, the then Minister of Culture in Württemberg-Baden, called him back to Stuttgart soon after the end of the war, so that Baum returned home to Germany in October 1946.

He died on October 27, 1959 and was laid to rest in his wife's family grave in Esslingen am Neckar.

Museum Ulm ( Ulmer Museum). Julius Baum was director between 1924 und 1933.
Landesmuseum Württemberg in Stuttgart. Julius Baum was director from 1947 to 1952. In 1947, it was called Württembergisches Landesmuseum .