Walter Hentschel

Walter August Wilhelm Hentschel (25 March 1899 – 22 December 1970) was a German art historian.

From 1948, Hentschel worked as a freelancer, and in 1950 he came to the Institute of Art History at the Technical University of Dresden as senior assistant to Eberhard Hempel (1886-1967) and initially became a professor with a teaching assignment there in 1953.

In 1950 he was a member of the managing committee of the building chamber of the regional church office, which included, in addition to him, O. Hempel, Hultsch, Müller, Nadler [de], Rietsche.

[2] In 1955, the Dresden University of Technology appointed him professor of art history and monument conservation.

Hentschel died in 1970 in Dresden at the age of 71 and was buried at the Waldfriedhof Weißer Hirsch [de].