Paul Hartwig (archaeologist)

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Paul Hartwig
Ex libris (Otto Greiner)

Paul Hartwig (born February 18, 1859 in Pirna , † August 3, 1919 in Gaschwitz near Leipzig ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Life

Paul Hartwig, the son of a lawyer, visited the prince school in Meissen and studied from 1879 Classical Archeology and Philology at the Universities of Heidelberg , Munich and Leipzig , where he in 1884 with a thesis Heracles with the cornucopia doctorate was. He then completed his probationary year at the Bautzen high school. For the year 1887/1888 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute , which enabled him to travel extensively to Italy, Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt and Tunis. During these trips Hartwig began his collection of vases, which formed the basis of his archaeological research.

After his return, Hartwig initially worked at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin , but gave up this position in 1889 and undertook further educational trips to England and France. He then stayed with his friend Friedrich Hauser in Stuttgart and devoted himself to archaeological studies. From this time the collection of master cups from the heyday of the strict red-figure style appeared (Stuttgart, Berlin 1893). From 1892 Hartwig lived as a collector and art dealer in Rome. Since he could not maintain his vase collection as a private person, he sold it to the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore . From 1893 to 1895 he took part in the excavations on the Acropolis in Athens . In 1903 the Austrian Archaeological Institute elected him a real member abroad.

In Rome, Hartwig associated with various artists, including the painter Hans von Marées , the matron Lucia Brunacci ( Anselm Feuerbach's long-standing model), Max Klinger (with whom he founded the Villa Romana Prize ) and Otto Greiner . When Italy declared war on the German Reich in 1915 during the First World War , Hartwig fled Rome. At first he lived with his brother in Dresden. He spent the last years of his life in the sanatorium in Gaschwitz near Leipzig. Here he died on August 3, 1919 after a long illness. He was buried in Rome in the Protestant cemetery .

literature

Web links

Commons : Paul Hartwig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Supplement to the ordinance sheet for the service area of ​​the Ministry of Culture and Education . Born 1903, Vienna 1903, Piece XIII, p. 167.
personal data
SURNAME Hartwig, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartwig, Reinhard Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Pirna
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1919
Place of death Gaschwitz