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Professor Gisbert Kapp (1852–1922), Professor of Electrical Engineering

Bernard Munns (1869–1942)

University of Birmingham

Professor Gisbert Kapp (1852–1922), Professor of Electrical Engineering

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Gisbert Johann Eduard Kapp was born in Austria in 1852 and became the first professor of electrical engineering at the University of Birmingham in 1905. Eric Ives explains in his book 'The First Civic University; Birmingham 1880–1980' that Kapp faced some adversity during the years of the First World War due to his German associations, along with other German-speaking members of staff. Today he is remembered through the Gisbert Kapp Building, which is now the home of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering.

University of Birmingham

Birmingham

Title

Professor Gisbert Kapp (1852–1922), Professor of Electrical Engineering

Date

1928

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 143.5 x W 133.4 cm

Accession number

A0318

Acquisition method

commissioned by the University of Birmingham, 1928

Work type

Painting

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Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands B15 2TT England

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Bernard Munns

1869–1942

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