Anna Maria Cetto

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Anna Maria Cetto (born September 27, 1898 in Stromberg ; † June 24, 1991 in Bern ) was a German art historian and author .

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Anna Maria Cetto was born as the daughter of the engineer Carl Cetto. The architect Max Cetto was her brother. After graduating from high school in Trier, she studied art history, classical archeology and philosophy in Frankfurt am Main, Munich and at the University of Cologne , where she received her doctorate in 1924 under Albert Erich Brinckmann . After her doctorate, she worked as an editor at Prestel Verlag , which her husband Hermann Loeb had founded in Frankfurt am Main shortly before . Loeb, who was of Jewish origin, left Germany after the National Socialists came to power in 1935 and moved to Switzerland. She continued to work for the Prestel publishing house in Frankfurt, but soon there were constant conflicts with the Reichsschrifttumskammer . In 1938 Cetto was arrested for two weeks. In 1939 she emigrated to Switzerland.

In her most widespread writings she deals with paintings by Albrecht Dürer , mosaics from Ravenna , art in Switzerland, animal paintings and pictorial representations of the anatomical section .

Cetto's estate is in the Bern Burger Library .

literature

  • Cetto Anna Maria. In: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 1: A – K. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 87 ff. ( Limited preview in the Google book search).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ StABS, PD-REG 3a 21798 Loeb, Hermann Wolfgang, Dr. phil. (1936) , personal dossier of the Aliens Police, Basel-Stadt State Archives , accessed on March 30, 2016.
  2. ↑ Literature by and about Anna Maria Cetto in the bibliographic database WorldCat
  3. ^ Anna Maria Cetto in the catalog of the Burgerbibliothek Bern
personal data
SURNAME Cetto, Anna Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Stromberg
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1991
Place of death Bern