Keith Andrews

Keith Andrews FRSE FSA (Hamburg, 11 October 1920 – 4 April 1989 in Edinburgh, Scotland), born Kurt Aufrichtig, was a British art historian and museum curator of German extraction. Life Andrews' father was Breslau born Max Aufrichtig (1879–1950), a banker in Hamburg. His mother, Sabine Kalter (1889–1957), was a leading mezzo-soprano at the State Opera. The family fled Nazi Germany in 1934 and settled in London. Andrews was sent to the International Quaker School at Eerde in the Dutch province of Overijssel. He contracted Poliomyelitis at the age of 17 which, apart from preventing his attendance of a university, left him dependent on walking aids for the rest of his life. He took employment at Messrs. Seligman Brothers, an antiquarian bookseller in Cecil Court, and attended evening lectures at the Courtauld Institute, where he earned a diploma in 1953.