Agnes Waldstein

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Agnes Waldstein (born May 3, 1900 in Halle / Saale ; died August 18, 1961 in Möttlingen ) was a German art historian and Jewish Christian activist.

Life

Agnes Waldstein was a daughter of the teacher Paul Waldstein and Cora Wehl. She attended the Lyceum in Halle and graduated from high school in 1919. She studied art history, German literature and history in Halle, Freiburg, Munich and Heidelberg and received her doctorate in Heidelberg in 1928 with a dissertation on Albrecht Dürer under Carl Neumann . She had to interrupt her studies for economic reasons and worked in 1921/22 as an office clerk at the Baden Higher Council of Israelites in Karlsruhe. Waldstein was employed as a freelance research assistant at the Folkwang Museum in Essen until 1933 and worked on an inventory catalog. After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, her employment was terminated for racist reasons.

In 1999, Ulrike Wendland found her further life difficult to determine. Waldstein evidently emigrated to Great Britain, because in 1937 she found herself among the founders of a Judeo-Christian sect in London, which was brought into being by Abram Poljak , his wife Pauline Rose and Albert von Springer . This sect later became part of the Imperial Brotherhood of Jesus Christ . Waldstein stayed with the sect in Jerusalem in 1951. Between 1949 and 1957, Waldstein published articles in the yearbook The Jewish Christian Community and in 1958 the book Die Feste der Bibel in Patmos-Verlag Möttlingen .

She died of a serious illness in 1961. She is buried in the cemetery in Möttlingen.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Green Passion: A Contribution to Dürer's Style Development . Essen, 1928 Heidelberg, Phil. Diss., 1928
  • Folkwang Museum. Volume 1, Modern Art - Painting, Sculpture, Graphics , edited by Dr. Agnes Waldstein. Essen: Museum Folkwang, 1983 (1929)
  • The industrial image: the development of a new art . Berlin: Furche-Kunstverlag, 1929
  • Six modern English water-colourists . Manchester: University of Manchester, 1935
  • The feasts of the Bible . Möttlingen: Patmos, 1958

literature

  • Waldstein, Agnes , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Art Historians in Exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , p. 723

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federico Dal Bo: The Theological and Cultural Challenge of Messianic Jews. Towards a New Jewish Paradigm? , in: Nathanael Riemer, Avidov Lipsker, Michał Szulc (eds.): Jesus in the Jewish cultures of the 19th and 20th centuries . Potsdam: Universitätsverlag, 2015 ISBN 978-3-86956-331-2 , p. 45
  2. ↑ Hanna Rucksack: Messianic Jews: History and Theology of the Movement in Israel . Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Theologie, 2014 ISBN 978-3-7887-2879-3, p. 178
  3. ↑ Ludwig Schneider: Abram Poljak , NAI Israel-Jahrbuch 1994
personal data
SURNAME Waldstein, Agnes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and Jewish Christian activist
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle / Saale
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1961
Place of death Möttlingen