Niebelschütz, Wolf von (Berlin, 1913-60, Düsseldorf), originally an art critic in Magdeburg, then Essen, served throughout the 1939-45 War, and afterwards settled as an author near Düsseldorf. His principal work is Der blaue Kammerherr (2 vols., 1949), a novel impregnated with baroque fantasy. Baroque inspiration underlies his other works, of which the most notable are the novel Die Kinder der Finsternis (1959), the story Verschneite Tiefen (1940), the Festspiel Eulenspiegel in Mölln (1950), and the volumes of verse Preis der Gnaden (1939) and Die Musik macht Gott allein (1942). A posthumous collection, Gedichte und Dramen, appeared in 1962. His essays include Goethe in dieser Zeit and Jacob Burkhardt (see Burkhardt, J., both 1946). Posthumous papers,
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