Fred. C. Willis

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Fred. C. Willis , in full Frederick Charles Willis or Friedrich Carl Willis (born April 16, 1883 in Prague ; died 1967 ) was a German art historian and journalist .

Life

Willis was the son of the British Rittmeister John Robinson Willis and his wife Eleonore (née Schicho). He received private tuition up to the age of 10 and attended the boys' institution and the pedagogy in Niesky from 1893 to 1899 . He then attended the grammar school in Dresden-Neustadt until 1902, which he finished with the school- leaving certificate .

He first studied law at the universities of Freiburg , Berlin , Kiel and Leipzig . In 1902 and 1903 he was called up for military service in the 2nd Royal Saxon Hussar Regiment No. 19 in Grimma , which he left again in 1907 as a lieutenant in the reserve.

From 1907 to 1910 Willis studied art history at the Universities of Halle and Leipzig and attended lectures by Adolph Goldschmidt , Paul Menzer , Johannes Richter , Carl Robert , August Schmarsow , Franz Studniczka , Rudolf Wackernagel and Wilhelm Wundt , among others . He wrote a dissertation on Dutch marine painting in Halle . To research his dissertation, he visited numerous art collectors, museum directors and art historians such as Cornelis Hofstede de Groot in The Hague, who made the notes about his own research available to him. In 1910 he received his doctorate from Adolph Goldschmidt in Halle, and his dissertation was printed in 1911. At the University of Kiel he became an assistant to Georg Vitzthum von Eckstädt and on July 26, 1914 completed his habilitation and private lecturer , on November 15, 1918 he resigned from the teaching body. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War.

From July 1, 1921, he was co-editor with Ulrich Thieme of the biographical artist lexicon General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present , with the publication of Volume 15 in autumn 1922, he ended this activity.

From 1924 he worked in Rome as a foreign correspondent for the Hamburger Nachrichten and various other German right-wing conservative newspapers for the “Service of National Newspapers (Dinat)”. Here he was also a co-founder of the local group of the NSDAP in 1931 , whose local group leader he was until 1933. In 1931 he received the Order of the Crown of Italy .

In 1933 he became a consultant in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda in Berlin. In 1937 he published an illustrated book about Mussolini's visit to Germany. On the foreign-University at Berlin University he held the winter semester 1936/37 until the end of April 1938 exercises and lectures on Italy from. From 1938 to 1939, Willis succeeded Herbert Gericke as director of the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome. On April 30, 1938 he was appointed Sturmbannführer .

From 1943 he lived as a private scholar in Florence .

Publications (selection)

  • The Dutch marine painting. Dissertation Halle 1910.
    • Dissertation printing: Robert Noske, Borna-Leipzig 1910 ( archive.org ).
    • Book version: Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1911.
  • A picture of Jan Abrahamsz Beerstaten and his template . In: monthly journals for art history . tape 6 , no. 4 , 1913, ISSN  0863-5811 , p. 160-163 , JSTOR : 24493933 .
  • An unknown portrait of Tiepolo. In: The Cicerone. 5, Heft 4, 1913, pp. 139-140 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
  • To the knowledge of the Antwerp minor masters of the early 16th century. In: monthly journals for art history. 7, No. 2, 1914, JSTOR 24494002 , pp. 43-47.
  • Early romantic painting. In: Art Chronicle and Art Market. 56th year, issue No. 4/5 and 6, EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, pp. 70–75 and pp. 104–110 ( uni-heidelberg.de , uni-heidelberg.de ).
  • Introduction. In: Benito Mussolini: Speeches. A selection from the years 1914 to the end of August 1924. Edited by Max H. Meyer. KF Koehler, Leipzig 1925.
  • Rome today. Alster-Verlag, Hamburg 1930.
  • Men around Mussolini. Rather, Munich 1932.
  • Mussolini in Germany. A people's rally for peace in the days from September 25 to 29, 1937. Freiheitsverlag, Berlin 1937.
  • The colonial idea in Italy. In: Journal of Politics. 29, 1939, pp. 102-110.

Translations

  • Fortunato Bellonzi, Ennio Francia: Rome, Vatican City, environs of Rome. Art history guide. Florence 1953, DNB 450349381 .
  • Roberto Bartolino: Florence and its surroundings. Description of the monuments, galleries and museums. Florence 1955.

literature

  • Friedrich Volbehr, Richard Weyl: Professors and lecturers at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel 1665–1954. 4th edition. Hirt, Kiel 1956, p. 218 ( uni-kiel.de ).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ CV . In: The Dutch marine painting . Robert Noske, Borna-Leipzig 1910, p. 97 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ General encyclopedia of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Preface to Volume 14, p. V ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ) and Preface to Volume 15, p. VI ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ Wolfgang Schieder: Myth Mussolini: Germans in audience with the Duce . Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-71906-2 , pp. 168 ( books.google.de ).
  4. ^ Ludwig Volk: The Reich Concordat of July 20, 1933. Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, Mainz 1972, p. 66;
    Andrea Hoffend: Konrad Adenauer and Fascist Italy. In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries. 75, 1995, p. 486;
    Andrea Hoffend: Between the culture axis and the culture war. The relations between “Third Reich” and Fascist Italy in the areas of media, art, science and racial issues. Lang, Bern a. a. 1998, pp. 57, 108;
    Andreas Burtscheidt: Edmund Freiherr Raitz von Frentz. Rome correspondent for the German-speaking Catholic press 1924–1964. Schöningh, Paderborn 2008, p. 157. 208;
    Daniela Liebscher: Joy and work. On the international leisure and social policy of fascist Italy and the Nazi regime. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2009, pp. 199, 458.
  5. ↑ German press. 21, 1931, p. 231.
  6. ↑ Deutsche Presse 23, 1933, p. 227.
  7. ^ Mussolini in Germany 1937 - Nazi Photo Book. In: usmbooks.com. Retrieved September 15, 2017 .
  8. ^ Notices from the university abroad at the University of Berlin. 40, 1937, p. I and communications from the university abroad at the University of Berlin. 41, 1938, p. II.
  9. ↑ Federal archive inventory B 314 Villa Massimo .
  10. ↑ Friedrich Volbehr, Richard Weyl: Professors and lecturers at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1665-1954. 4th edition. Hirt, Kiel 1956, p. 218 ( uni-kiel.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Willis, Fred. C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Willis, Frederick Charles (full name); Willis, Friedrich Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH after 1955