Lottlisa Behling, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lottlisa Behling

botanist and art historian

Date of Birth: 15-Jul-1909

Place of Birth: Pomerania, Germany

Date of Death: 09-Jan-1989

Profession: university teacher, art historian, botanist, science writer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Lottlisa Behling (15.
July 1909 – 9 January 1989) was a German art historian and botanist. Behling was born in Neustettin, Pomerania.
She was a double major in art history and botany at the universities of Greifswald, Halle and Berlin.
She received her doctorate degree 1937 in Berlin.
Her doctoral thesis was titled Das ungegenständliche Bauornament der Gotik.
Versuch einer Geschichte des Maßwerks.
Afterwards she worked at the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin and became a professor for medieval art and ornaments at the University of Jena in 1953.
Two years later she received her habilitation at the Humboldt-University Berlin and became associate director of the institute of art history at the university of Jena.
In 1958, she left East Germany, and taught at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Since 1960 she taught art history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.Her research focus were the iconography of plants in medieval art and late mediaval drawing.
Her publications Die Pflanzen in der mittelalterlichen Tafelmalerei and Die Pflanzenwelt der mittelalterlichen Kathedralen are considered reference books.In Munich, the Lottlisa-Behling-Weg in Schwabing-Freimann is named after her.