Franz Roh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Franz Roh

German art critic

Date of Birth: 21-Feb-1890

Place of Birth: Apolda, Thuringia, Germany

Date of Death: 30-Dec-1965

Profession: photographer, university teacher, art historian

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Franz Roh (21 February 1890 – 30 December 1965), was a German historian, photographer, and art critic.
Roh is perhaps best known for his 1925 book Nach Expressionismus: Magischer Realismus: Probleme der neuesten europäischen Malerei ("After expressionism: Magical Realism: Problems of the newest European painting") he coined the term magic realism. Roh was born in Apolda (in present-day Thuringia), Germany.
He studied at universities in Leipzig, Berlin, and Basel.
In 1920, he received his Ph.D.
in Munich for a work on Dutch paintings of the 17th century.
As a photographer and critic, he absolutely hated photographs that mimicked painting, charcoal, or drawings.
During the Nazi regime, he was isolated and briefly put in jail for his book Foto-Auge (Photo-Eye); he used his jail time he used to write the book Der Verkannte Künstler: Geschichte und Theorie des kulturellen Mißverstehens ("The unrecognized artist: history and theory of cultural misunderstanding").
After the war, in 1946, he married art historian Juliane Bartsch.
He died in Munich.