Alfred Neumeyer (art historian)
Alfred Neumeyer (born January 7, 1901 in Munich ; died January 21, 1973 in Oakland , California ) was a German-American art historian and writer .
Life
Alfred Neumeyer was born in 1901 as the son of the legal scholar Karl Neumeyer (1869–1941) and his wife Anna. After the end of World War I and graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1919 , Neumeyer was a free corps fighter and member of the Epp free corps in the fight against the Munich Soviet Republic and in the Ruhr uprising . From 1920 he studied philosophy and art history in Munich and Berlin .
He received his doctorate under Adolph Goldschmidt in Berlin in 1925 and then became an assistant at the Art History Institute in Florence . Further training stations were 1926–1927 museums in Hamburg, Lübeck and Berlin, and 1928–1929 in Rome. From 1930 he was head of the press office of the State Museums and lecturer in Berlin and was dismissed in 1933 due to his Jewish origins. His parents were victims of the persecution of Jews in Germany in 1941. He emigrated to the USA in 1935 and became a professor at Mills College in Oakland. 1963–1964 he was visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin .
Works
Neumeyer wrote poetry, modern short stories, the play Die Herd sucht (1932) and the autobiographical work Lights and Shadows (Prestel, 1964), The View from the Picture , 1964, Essays , 1970. His book The Art in Our Time. He dedicated an attempt at an interpretation (1961) to the friend Carl Georg Heise .
literature
- Neumeyer, Alfred. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 17: Meid – Phil. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-22697-7 , pp. 339-344.
- Uwe Meier: Neumeyer, Alfred. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 173 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
- Neumeyer, Alfred , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical manual 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 , pp. 459-463
Individual evidence
- ^ According to the California death register. The NDB gives January 24th, probably by mistake.
- ^ Annual report on the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1919/20
- ^ Uwe Meier: Neumeyer, Alfred. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 173 f. ( Digitized version ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neumeyer, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-German art historian and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1973 |
| Place of death | Oakland , California |