Albert Boeckler

Albert Boeckler (born January 23, 1892 in Konstanz , † July 5, 1957 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German art historian .

Life

After studying art history with Adolph Goldschmidt , whose friend Boeckler remained until the end of his life, at the University of Berlin , which he completed in 1921 with the dissertation Das Stuttgarter Passionale , Boeckler worked in the manuscript department of the Prussian State Library in Berlin from 1923 , where he worked closely with well-known researchers such as Hans Wegener . There he was also appointed as editor of a work on the Codex Wittekindeus , which led him to an in-depth examination of pre-Romanesque art and theology . During this time Boeckler produced numerous works, in particular on bronze sculptures - here above all door designs - as well as the influence of Byzantine on Western art of the Middle Ages. He advanced to become a scientist who was technically equal to the library director at the time, Hermann Degering . From 1942 to 1946 he was director of the art library . In 1943 he became an honorary professor at the University of Berlin.

In 1946 he moved to the Bavarian State Library in Munich, where he succeeded the late Georg Leidinger as head of the manuscript department. Boeckler was able to build up his reputation particularly through the two exhibitions Art of the Early Middle Ages , Bern 1949 in cooperation with Otto Homburger , and one year later Ars Sacra in Munich. In 1947 he became a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , in 1948 honorary professor at the University of Munich. In 1956 he retired.

Boeckler's written estate was managed by Hans Jantzen , who in 1961 posthumously published the work Iconographic Studies on the Miraculous Scenes in Ottonian Painting in Reichenau . But Boeckler's research on the Reichenau School and its relationship to Eastern art remained incomplete.

research

His life's work pervades the publication of medieval manuscripts in the form of facsimiles and smaller publications. Most of his works deal with the collection of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, medieval facsimiles and comparatively shorter texts such as the contributions to the series Die Blauen Bücher . His work Occidental Miniatures up to the End of the Romanesque Period , published in 1930, remained decisive for the study of Carolingian and Romanesque book illumination (Rosy Schilling) for the next 25 years . Albert Boeckler's research focus was on the development of Byzantine, Alexandrian, Roman and northern Italian sources on medieval book art .

Fonts (selection)

• The Stuttgart Passionale. Filser, Augsburg 1923 (= dissertation)
• The Regensburg -prüfungingen illumination of the XII. and XIII. Century. A. Reusch, Munich 1924
• Western miniatures up to the end of the Romanesque period. W. de Gruyter, Berlin - Leipzig 1930
• with Hans Wegener: Beautiful manuscripts from the possession of the Prussian State Library. Reichsdruckerei, Berlin 1931
• The bronze door of Verona. Publishing house of the art history seminar of the University of Marburg, Marburg 1931
• The bronze door of San Zeno. Art history seminar at the University of Marburg, Marburg 1931
• German book illumination in pre-Gothic times. , Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1951

literature

• Wolfgang Hörmann: Albert Boeckler . In: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie 6, 1959, pp. 87–91.
• Hans Jantzen : Albert Boeckler. January 23, 1892–5. July 1957 : In: Yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences 1957, pp. 176–179.
• Wilhelm Koehler : Albert Boeckler. In: Kunstchronik 12, 1959, pp. 169–170.
• Rosy Schilling : Albert Boeckler. In: The Burlington Magazine . No. 99, issue 657, December 1957, pp. 420-421.

Web links

• Albert Boeckler in Dictionary of Art Historians (English)
• Literature by and about Albert Boeckler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications in the OPAC of the Regesta Imperii