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Ernst Gall
Ernst Emil Max Gall (17 February 1888 – 5 August 1958) was a German art historian and historic preservationist. Life Born in Danzig, Gall attended the Fürst-Otto-Gymnasium in Wernigerode and from 1907 initially studied two semesters of jurisprudence, law at the Grenoble Alpes University and the University of Paris, Sorbonne. From 1908, he studied art history at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His teachers included Heinrich Wölfflin and Adolph Goldschmidt. In 1915, he was awarded a Dr. phil. by Goldschmidt at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. After participating in the First World War in France, Gall got a job at the in Halle (Saale), Halle. In 1920, he became a consultant at the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg in Berlin, responsible for eastern issues, modern art, monument conservation and palaces. In November 1929, he became director of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg as successor to the Oberfin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Gall
Ernst Emil Max Gall (17 February 1888 – 5 August 1958) was a German art historian and historic preservationist. Life Born in Danzig, Gall attended the Fürst-Otto-Gymnasium in Wernigerode and from 1907 initially studied two semesters of jurisprudence, law at the Grenoble Alpes University and the University of Paris, Sorbonne. From 1908, he studied art history at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His teachers included Heinrich Wölfflin and Adolph Goldschmidt. In 1915, he was awarded a Dr. phil. by Goldschmidt at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. After participating in the First World War in France, Gall got a job at the in Halle (Saale), Halle. In 1920, he became a consultant at the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg in Berlin, responsible for eastern issues, modern art, monument conservation and palaces. In November 1929, he became director of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg as successor to the Oberfin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Günter Gall
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Peter Betthausen
Peter Betthausen (born 27 June 1941) is a German art historian. Life Born in Harzgerode, Betthausen studied history of art, history and aesthetic at the Humboldt University of Berlin. From 1966 to 1986 he worked there and at the Leipzig University. In 1971 he received his doctorate at the University of Berlin with a thesis on ''Hypothesen zu einer kunstwissenschaftlichen Stiltheorie'' (Hypotheses on a theory of style in art studies) and in 1986 he habilitated on ''Künstlergemeinschaften der deutschen Romantik'' (Artist communities of German Romanticism). From 1974 to 1986 he was also a member of staff at the Institute for Aesthetics and Art Studies at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. From 1986 he was director of the National Gallery of the GDR. During his term of office, which lasted until January 1991, he showed a series of exhibitions on artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Wolfgang Mattheuer, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Werner Tübke, and Bernhard Heisig. In addit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Grodecki
Louis Grodecki (18 July 1910, Warsaw – 28 March 1982, Paris) was a French art historian. A disciple of Henri Focillon since 1929, shortly after his arrival in France, and naturalized French in 1935, he met art historian Erwin Panofsky in 1949 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Grodecki is famous for his work on romanesque stained glass, of Paris, Picardy and the Nord-Pas de Calais region. His most notable works are about the stained glasses of Chartres Cathedral Chartres Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres (french: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres), is a Roman Catholic church in Chartres, France, about southwest of Paris, and is the seat of the Bishop of Chartres. Mostly con ..., in particular a complete catalogue which he never finished. He was a reviewer for the doctoral dissertation of E. Wayne Craven. Bibliography * Au Seuil de l'Art Roman. L'architecture Ottonienne, Paris 1958. Armand Colin * Le Maître de saint Eusta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarethe Kühn
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Margarete Kühn
Margarete Kühn (4 February 1902 – 12 September 1995) was a German author and art historian. She was the first director of the State Palaces and Gardens Administration in Berlin. She made significant efforts for the preservation of the Berlin Palace and the reconstruction of the Charlottenburg Palace during the post-war period. In 1948, she helped the transfer of a medieval manuscript, '' Riesencodex'', the complete compilation of works of St. Hildegard of Bingen from Dresden to Hildegard Abbey through an unofficial channel. Biography Margarete Kühn was born on 4 February 1902 in , Germany. She studied natural sciences in Munich, but later changed to art history. She also studied in Vienna and Leipzig. In 1928 she received her doctorate in Munich. She joined as an assistant at the Prussian Palace Administration in 1929 and later she became a research assistant at the same institute. Since 1935 she started working with Ernst Gall Ernst Emil Max Gall (17 February 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Günther Grundmann
Günther Grundmann (10 April 1892 – 19 June 1976) was a German art historian, museum curator and monument preservator. Life Born in Jelenia Góra, Krkonoše Mountains, Province of Silesia, after Abitur in his hometown in 1912, Grundmann studied art history at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich among others with Heinrich Wölfflin and Paul Frankl. In addition to his studies, he learned painting at the Walter Thor painting school and attended the Königliche Kunstgewerbeschule München from 1913 onwards, where he took, among other things, the typeface class with Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke and the furniture design class with Richard Riemerschmid. When war broke out in 1914, he first returned to Hirschberg and then continued his art history studies at the University of Breslau, which he completed in 1916 with a doctorate (Dr. phil.) under the conduct of . From 1919 to 1932, Grundmann was a teacher of art history at the and an honorary administrator of the "Hausfleißverein", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archive
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Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich
Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich (born 23 March 1903 in Leipzig; died 14 September 1978 in Munich) was a German art historian specialized in Italian Renaissance art. From 1947 to 1970, he served as director of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich. Life and work The son of a German officer, Heydenreich grew up in Dresden. He first studied art history at the University of Berlin, but moved to Hamburg in 1919 in order to study under Erwin Panofsky. In 1929, he wrote a PhD thesis entitled, "Die Sakralbau-Studien Leonardo da Vincis". In Hamburg he also wrote his ''Habilitationschrift'', which was completed in 1934. From 1934 to 1938, he taught art history at the University of Hamburg. In 1941, he took up a chair in art history at the University of Berlin. In 1943 he became director of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence. After the war, he helped found the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, a research center for art historians situate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutscher Kunstverlag
The Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV) is an educational publishing house with offices in Berlin and Munich. The publisher specializes in books about art, cultural history, architecture, and historic preservation. History Deutscher Kunstverlag was founded in 1921 in Berlin. Founders were the publishing companies Insel Verlag, E. A. Seemann, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Julius Hoffmann, G. Grote, Julius Bard, and Walter de Gruyter, as well as the bank . Some book series appeared already in 1925, which to this day still partially determine the publishing profile. In addition to scientific publications, the Deutscher Kunstverlag publishes art books and exhibition catalogs. After the Second World War, the publisher moved its headquarters to Munich. Since the 1990s, the owners have frequently changed. In early 2007, Gabriele Miller purchased the Deutscher Kunstverlag and was the sole shareholder. The head office of the publishing house was then moved back to Berlin. In October 2010, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Schmitt (art Historian)
Otto Herbert Schmitt (April 6, 1913 – January 6, 1998) was an American inventor, engineer, and biophysicist known for his scientific contributions to biophysics and for establishing the field of biomedical engineering. Schmitt also coined the term biomimetics and invented or co-invented the Schmitt trigger, the differential amplifier, and the chopper-stabilized amplifier. He was elected in 1953 a Fellow of the American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k .... (search on year=1953 and institution=University of Minnesota) He was awarded the John Price Wetherill Medal in 1972. References *“Biomimetic.” Merriam-Webster.com. 2013. Web. April 15, 2013. *Geddes, Leslie A. "Personal Recollections Of Otto Schmitt. Otto Knew How To Get People's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Dehio
Georg Gottfried Julius Dehio (22 November 1850 in Reval (now Tallinn), Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire – 21 March 1932 in Tübingen), was a Baltic German art historian. In 1900, Dehio started the "''Handbuch der deutschen Kunstgeschichte''" (Handbook of German Art History), published by Ernst Wasmuth. The project is ongoing and managed by the 'Dehio-Vereinigung', Munich. He is the namesake of the Georg Dehio Prize (Georg Dehio Book Prize). He was laureate of the Pour le Mérite order ( "Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste"), the Eagle Shield of the German Empire (Adlerschild des Deutschen Reiches) and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. He held honorary doctor titles in Göttingen, Tübingen, Frankfurt (Main) and Darmstadt. The minor planet 48415 Dehio discovered circa 1987, is named after him. See also * Karl Gottfried Konstantin Dehio (27 May 1851, Reval (Tallinn) – 26 February 1927, Dorpat (Tartu)), internist, cousin * Ludwi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
