Mary Born (Mercer)

Mary Mercer was an art student at Chicago Art Institute when she met Wolfgang Born. and they married in 1946. Wolfgang was a Byzantine and Russian art specialist, later historian of 19th- and 20th-century painting. They moved to New York in 1948 as professor of art history at Hunter College (City University of New York)

Shortly before the annexation of Austria by the Third Reich, Born had emigrated to the United States in 1937 to avoid persecution.

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