What is "gurlitt"

Gurlitt is a German family. Notable people with the surname include:

1. Johann August Wilhelm Gurlitt (1774–1855), fabricant. Son of Gottlieb Wilhelm Gurlitt and Katharina Ester Gurlitt. His wife was Helene Eberstein. They had 16 children.
   1. Cornelius Gurlitt (composer) (1820–1901) – composer, conductor.
   2. Louis Gurlitt (1812–1879) – Danish-German landscape painter. His uncle was the painter Eugen Krüger. His third wife was Elisabeth, née Lewalds ( Fanny Lewald's sister). Her Jewish background caused problems for their issue during the Nazi era. He had 7 children.
      1. Wilhelm Gurlitt (1844–1905) - archaeologist.
      2. Cornelius Gurlitt (art historian) (1850–1938) – art historian.
         1. Wilibald Gurlitt (1889–1963) – musicologist.
         2. Cornelia Gurlitt (1890–1919) – expressionist painter.
         3. Hildebrand Gurlitt (1895–1956) – art dealer and historian, owner of looted art.
            1. Cornelius Gurlitt (art collector) (1932–2014) – discovered to have extensive holdings of looted art in 2012.
      3. Fritz Gurlitt (1854–1893) – art collector.
         1. Wolfgang Gurlitt (1888–1965) – art dealer and collector, publisher. Son of Fritz and Annarella Gurlitt (sculptor Heinrich Max Imhof's daughter).
         2. Manfred Gurlitt (1890–1972) – opera composer and conductor, long active in Japan. Son of Annarella and either Fritz or her second husband Willi Waldecker.
      4. Ludwig Gurlitt (1855–1931) – progressive pedagogue, patron of the back-to-nature youth organization Wandervogel.

Category:German families