Adolf Jannasch

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Adolf Jannasch (born June 7, 1898 in Heidelberg , † April 23, 1984 in Berlin ) was a German art historian .

Life

Jannasch was born as the son of the chemist Paul Jannasch . He attended high school in Heidelberg and from 1918 studied art history, archeology and music history at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin , among others with Carl Neumann and Adolph Goldschmidt . After receiving his doctorate in 1923 with Neumann in Heidelberg, he was a research assistant at the State Museums in Berlin . Between 1927 and 1945 he wrote as an art history editor for Propylaen Verlag . From 1945 onwards he was head of the office for fine arts at the magistrate and senate of Berlin. In 1955 he was appointed director of the “Gallery of the 20th Century”. Their holdings have been in the Neue Nationalgalerie since 1968 .

From 1945 Adolf Jannasch was born with Alice. Breu married. Their son Alexander Jannasch became a lawyer and judge at the Federal Administrative Court.

Honors

Fonts

  • Ornament and line in Rembrandt. Typewritten dissertation, Heidelberg University, July 23, 1924.
  • The Dutch painters of the 17th century (= Propylaea art history. Vol. 12). 4th, revised edition. Propylaea, Berlin 1940 (previous editions by Max J. Friedländer ).
  • Hans Meid. Neff, Berlin 1943.
  • Carl Hofer. Key note, Potsdam 1946.
  • Renée Sintenis. Key note, Potsdam 1949.
  • Ed. By: Heinrich Zille : Heinrich is called he. Unpublished. Torchbearers, Hanover 1960.
  • The Gallery of the 20th Century Berlin, 1945–1968. Published by the Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz on the occasion of the opening of the New National Gallery Berlin on September 15, 1968. Hartmann, Berlin 1968.
  • Introduction to: Max Beckmann as an illustrator. Edited by Wolfgang Tiessen . Tiessen, Neu Isenburg, 1969.

literature

  • Who is who? 17th edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1971, p. 483.
  • Who's who in Art. 17th edition. Hilmarton Manor Press, Calne 1974, p. 237.
  • The 20th Century Gallery in Berlin 1945 - 1968, The Way to the New National Gallery, For the National Gallery and the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin edited by Christina Thomson and Petra Winter , Deutscher Kunstverlag Berlin 2015.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b note 640. In: Maike Steinkamp: The undesirable heritage: The reception of “degenerate” art in art criticism, exhibitions and museums of the Soviet occupation zone and early GDR. Akademie, Berlin 2008, p. 373 ( online ).
  2. ↑ In detail cf. Christina Thomson, New Building and Fusion, The Way to the New National Gallery and the United Art Collections 1961 to 1968 in: The Gallery of the 20th Century, p. 114ff.
  3. ↑ Annual directory of the publications published at German universities and colleges. Volume 40 (1924).
personal data
SURNAME Jannasch, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1984
Place of death Berlin