Adolf Rosenberg

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Adolf Rosenberg

Carl Adolf Rosenberg (born January 30, 1850 in Bromberg ; † February 26, 1906 in Berlin ) was a German art historian and publicist .

Life

Adolf Rosenberg, son of a businessman, came to Berlin as a high school student. At the Köllnisches Gymnasium he graduated from high school with distinction at Easter 1869. He then studied classical philology and archeology at the Berlin University . In May 1872 he completed his studies with the dissertation De Erinyum religione cultu imaginibus , in which he treated the Erinyes in poetry and fine arts as well as their cult. After receiving his doctorate , he went on numerous study trips to Germany , Austria , Italy , France , Belgium and the Netherlands .

Rosenberg wrote articles on art and art history as well as some theater reviews for various magazines. In the period from 1873 to 1899, for example for the magazine for visual arts with its supplement art chronicle , where he rose from employee to co- editor in 1892 . From 1875 to 1897 he worked from 1875 to 1897 as a feature editor for the political daily newspaper Die Post in Berlin , which is closely related to the Free Conservative Party and where he started as an art reporter in 1874 . He edited the Berlin architecture world from the first year in 1899 to the third issue in 1902.

Another aspect of his work are contributions to collective works such as Robert Dohme's Art and Artists of the Middle Ages and Modern Times , where he contributed to Lucas van Leyden , Lorenzo Ghiberti , Donatello and Eugène Delacroix , or Hugo Licht's architecture in Berlin and contemporary architecture. Overview of the most outstanding constructions of modern times . From 1881 until his death he also wrote articles in Meyer's Konversations-Lexikon .

He has also written numerous books, including 19 artist monographs by artists from bygone eras such as Lorenzo Ghiberti , but also on contemporaries such as the sculptor Gustav Eberlein or the painters Emil Hünten and Anton von Werner . In the autumn of 1901 he moved to Stuttgart to take up the post of editor-in-chief of the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt . Within the publishing series Klassiker der Kunst he wrote the volumes on Raffael , Rembrandt and Peter Paul Rubens . After two years he returned to Berlin in autumn 1903, where he died in 1906.

His grave is in the Schöneberg III cemetery in Berlin-Friedenau .

Works

  • Professor Boetticher as an archaeologist: A contribution to the history of Berlin archeology. Berlin 1873
  • The Erinyes. A contribution to the religion and art of the Greeks. Borntraeger Eggers, Berlin 1874
  • Sebald and Barthel Beham, two painters of the German Renaissance. Seemann, Leipzig 1875
  • Hugo Licht (Hrsg.): The architecture of Berlin: Collection of excellent construction works of the last few years. Wasmuth, Berlin 1877
  • The Berlin School of Painting 1819–1879: Studies and Reviews. Wasmuth, Berlin 1879
  • Rubens letters. Collected and explained by Adolf Rosenberg. Leipzig 1881 Digitized edition of the Heidelberg University Library
  • History of modern art. 3 volumes, Grunow, Leipzig 1884–89
  • Adolf Rosenberg, Heinrich Mosler: Classics of Architecture. Lemme, Leipzig 1885
  • The development of the Munich School of Painting since 1871. Seemann, Leipzig 1887
  • From the Düsseldorf School of Painting: Studies and Sketches. Leipzig: Seemann 1890. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Hugo Licht (Hrsg.): Architecture of the present: overview of the most outstanding building designs of the modern age. 5 volumes, Wasmuth, Berlin 1892–1898
  • A. von Werner. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1895
  • Teniers the Younger; with 63 illustrations of paintings and drawings. Artist monographs 8, Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1895
  • Antoine Watteau . Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1896
  • Thorwaldsen. Artist monographs 16, Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1896
  • Defregger: with 96 illustrations after paintings and drawings. Artist monographs 18, Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1897
  • Terborch and Jan Steen: with 95 illustrations after paintings and drawings. Artist monographs 19, Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1897
  • Vautier: with 111 illustrations after paintings and drawings. Artist monographs 23, Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1897
  • Lenbach: with 101 illustrations after paintings and drawings. Artist monographs 34, Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1898
  • Leonardo da Vinci: with 128 illustrations after paintings a. Sign. Artist monographs 33, Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1898
  • E. von Gebhardt. Artist monographs 38, Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1899
  • Eberlein. Artist monographs 66, Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1899
  • Adriaen and Isack van Ostade . Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1900
  • Friedrich August von Kaulbach: with 107 illustrations after paintings and drawings. Artist monographs 48, Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1900
  • Prell: with 115 illustrations after paintings, drawings and sculptures. Artist monographs 53, Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1901
  • Handbook of Art History. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1902
  • Raffael: the master's painting in 202 illustrations. Classics of Art in Complete Editions 1, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1904
  • PP Rubens: the master's painting in 551 illustrations. Classics of art in total editions 5, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1905
  • Adolf Rosenberg, Eduard Heyck: History of the costume. 5 volumes, Wasmuth, Berlin 1905–1925
  • Rembrandt: the master's painting in 643 illustrations. Classics of Art in Complete Editions 2, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1906

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Adolf Rosenberg  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spenersche Verlagbuchhandlung , Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-7759-0476-X , p. 334.
personal data
SURNAME Rosenberg, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenberg, Carl Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromberg
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1906
Place of death Berlin