Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz

In addition to numerous individual research projects, those funded by third parties and numerous collaborations with international universities, museums and research institutes, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz provides a platform for larger long and medium term projects whose subject matter ranges from Late Antiquity to the Modern Age.

The idea of creating an art historical research institute in Florence was first discussed within a circle of academics, connoisseurs and artists gathered around the collector Baron Karl Eduard von Liphart.

[4] In the winter semester of 1888/89, August Schmarsow, professor of art history at Breslau, taught courses at various locations in Florence.

After the war, many of the major collections looted from Italy were identified by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives service of the American military government and returned to their owners.

The Collegio Rabbinico Italiano, the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, and the Deutsche Historische Bibliothek Rom were all returned, although not all were intact, to their owners in Italy.