Oskar Bie (9 February 1864 – 21 April 1938) was a German art historian and author of Jewish origin.
Life
Born in
Breslau, Bie studied philosophy, art and music history at the universities of
Breslau,
Leipzig
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and
Berlin
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. In 1886, he achieved his doctorate and
habilitated in 1890 at the
Technical University of Berlin
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in art history.
From 1894 1922, he was the chief editor of the literary magazine
Die neue Rundschau and made it one of the leading cultural monthly magazines in Germany.
As a critic of opera, music and art, he worked for the papers ''
Berliner Börsen-Courier
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'' and ''
Die Weltbühne
''Die Weltbühne'' (‘The World Stage’) was a German weekly magazine for politics, art and the economy. It was founded in Berlin in 1905 as (‘The Theater’) by Siegfried Jacobsohn and was originally a theater magazine only. In 1913 it beg ...
''.
In 1901, Bie was appointed professor. He taught aesthetics at the
Musikhochschule Berlin from 1921. No reprints of his books were allowed after 1933.
He died in Berlin.
Selected publications
*''Zwischen den Künsten. Beiträge zur modernen Ästhetik'' (1895)
*''Die Musen in der antiken Kunst'' (1887)
*''Das Klavier und seine Meister'' (1898)
*''Der Tanz als Kunstwerk'' (1905)
*''Die moderne Musik und
Richard Strauss
Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wag ...
'' (1906)
*''
Constantin Somoff'' (1907)
*''Reise um die Kunst'' (1910)
*''Die Oper'' (1913)
*''Das Deutsche Lied (1926)
Notes
Further reading
* ''Lexikon deutsch-jüdischer Autoren'', vol 1, München 1992
* ''Oscar Bie'', in: Richard Drews /
Alfred Kantorowicz (ed.), ''verboten und verbrannt. Deutsche Literatur - 12 Jahre unterdrückt'', Berlin und München: Heinz Ullstein - Helmut Kindler Verlag, 1947, ps. 21f
* Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, AG (ed.): Reichshandbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft, vol 1, Berlin, 1931
External links
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German people of Jewish descent
German art historians
German male journalists
German journalists
1864 births
1938 deaths
Writers from Wrocław
People from the Province of Silesia
German male writers
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