Robert Bruck

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Robert David Bruck (born September 16, 1863 in Offenbach am Main , † January 29, 1942 in Dresden ) was a German art historian .

Life

Robert Bruck's grave in the Tolkewitz urn grove

Bruck attended the high school in Bensheim and passed the Abitur in 1882. From 1897 he studied art history and philosophy in Leipzig , Dresden and Heidelberg . He completed his doctorate at the University of Heidelberg in 1901 and from 1902 worked as an assistant for art history at the TH Dresden . After his habilitation in 1903, Bruck taught as a private assistant in Dresden and became an assistant for the history of the arts at the Dresden TH. First from 1906 extraordinary professor for art history he took over the professorship for middle and modern art history at the TH Dresden in 1912. He became director of the Art History Institute and was the rector of the TH Dresden from 1927 to 1928.

Bruck's wife Martha, née Brieger, died on November 22, 1930. In the following year, Bruck retired. Bruck was Jewish and suffered increasing repression during the Nazi era . In 1941, his pension was finally withheld. Bruck probably took his own life on January 29, 1942, "because he no longer wanted to walk the street with the star ." He was buried in the Tolkewitz urn grove in Dresden . An open book adorns his grave.

Works (selection)

  • 1902: Alsatian stained glass
  • 1903: Friedrich the Wise as a patron of art
  • 1904: Arwed Roßbach and his buildings
  • 1905: Albrecht Dürer's sketchbook
  • 1906: The paintings in the manuscripts of the Kingdom of Saxony
  • 1910: The preservation of monuments in the Kingdom of Saxony
  • 1912: The Sophienkirche in Dresden. Their history and their art treasures
  • 1913: Saxon palaces and castles
  • 1917: Ernst zu Schaumburg: an art-promoting prince of the seventeenth century
  • 1924: Dresden. An art viewing hike

literature

  • Bruck, Robert David . In: Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation (Hrsg.): Book of memory. Jews in Dresden - deported, murdered, missing 1933–1945 . web, Dresden 2006, ISBN 3-939888-14-1 , p. 60.
  • Bruck, Robert. In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 127.

Web links

Wikisource: Robert Bruck  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Memory, p. 60.
personal data
SURNAME Bruck, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bruck, Robert David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1942
Place of death Dresden