Albert Dresdner

Albert Dresdner (born June 1, 1866 in Breslau , † December 22, 1934 in Berlin ) was a German historian, art critic and art historian.

As the son of a Chasan , he attended the Elisabethanum in Breslau until he graduated from high school in 1884. He then studied history, philosophy and art history in Breslau and Berlin . On January 25, 1890, he received his doctorate at the University of Berlin ; his doctoral supervisor was the historian Harry Bresslau . He then worked on behalf of the Historical Commission for the History of Jews in Germany on the regests on the history of German Jews in the Middle Ages. In 1895 he resigned from the Jewish community. After training as a director in 1893 at the Royal Court Theater in Stuttgart , he then worked as a director and since 1894 as an acting teacher. He also worked as an art critic. In 1915 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg . Here he worked from 1915 to 1933 as a non-official adjunct professor for art history. In 1933 he was forced to retire as a non-Aryan according to Section 3 of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service .

Dresdner wrote one of the first systematic accounts of the emergence of art criticism as an independent literary genre in France in the 18th century (1915), which has been reprinted several times since then.

Works (selection)

The emergence of art criticism (1915)

• The Italian clergy of the 10th and 11th centuries in their relationship to the Church, with special reference to the development of simony; a contribution to their cultural and moral history. Koebner, Breslau 1890 (= dissertation).
• Regesta on the history of the Jews in the Franconian and German Empire up to 1273. Edited by Julius Aronius with the participation of Albert Dresdner and Ludwig Lewinski . Simion, Berlin 1887-1902.
• The way of art. Diederichs, Jena 1904. 2nd edition 1909.
• Ibsen as a Norwegian and a European. Diederichs, Jena 1907.
• Art criticism, its history and theory. Volume I: The emergence of art criticism in the context of the history of European art life. Bruckmann, Munich 1915.
  • The emergence of art criticism in the context of the history of European art life. New edition. Bruckmann, Munich 1968 (with a foreword by Peter M. Bode).
  • The emergence of art criticism in the context of the history of European art life. License issue. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 2001 (with an afterword by Lothar Müller).
• Swedish and Norwegian art since the Renaissance. Shepherd, Breslau 1924.

literature

• Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 1: A – K. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 127-129 (with list of publications).
• Dresdner, Albert. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 6: Dore – Fein. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-598-22686-1 , pp. 9-12.