Paul Ortwin Rave

Paul Ortwin Rave (10 July 1893, Elberfeld – 16 May 1962, Idar-Oberstein), was a German art historian and director of the Berlin National Gallery.

From 1918, after participating in the First World War, he studied history of art, classical archaeology and history of literature at the University of Bonn, from where he received doctorate in 1922 with a thesis on the church of St Severus in Boppard and its Romanesque construction.

On the recommendation of his teacher Paul Clemen, he then joined the administration of the National Gallery in Berlin, where he was later appointed curator, and also became director of the museum of the Friedrichswerder Church.

Justi was dismissed by the National Socialists in 1933 and replaced by the art historian Alois Schardt (1889–1955).

[1] In this capacity he wanted to acquire works owned by Marie Busch, a collector who had emigrated to England.