Andreas Tönnesmann, born in 1953, studied Art History and Literature at German and Italian universities. He became a professor of architectural history first at the University of Bonn in 1991, then later at the University of Augsburg. In 2001 he was awarded a chair at the renowned Institute of Art and Architectural History at the Swiss Technical University (ETH Zurich). He died in 2014 in Munich.
(Updated: 2020)
