Alfred Peltzer

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Alfred Peltzer (born August 16, 1875 in Krefeld , † December 31, 1914 in Pützchen ) was a German art historian .

Life

The Krefeld velvet manufacturer Gustav Peltzer (1844–1897) married Laura ter Meer (* 1850) from Krefeld on July 19, 1871. The couple had children Alfred, Klara (* 1877) and Walther (* 1880).

Alfred Peltzer made at the Krefeld secondary schools graduated from high school and worked a year later in his father's business. After he had acquired the missing Greek , he studied philosophy , history , art history , literary history and classical archeology in Heidelberg and Vienna . During the semester break he went on art history study trips to Italy. When Henry Thode Peltzer was in 1899 at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on German mysticism and German art Dr. phil. PhD . In 1902 followed - also in Heidelberg - the habilitation with the treatise on painting style and style in Dutch art . On November 8, 1902, after a public trial lecture - entitled The Aesthetic Meaning of Goethe's Theory of Colors - he received the Venia legendi and worked in Heidelberg as a private lecturer. On December 25, 1909, he was appointed associate professor of art history. After Thode resigned his professorship in 1911, Peltzer also left Heidelberg University in December 1912 and moved to Weimar to study .

Scientifically, Peltzer mainly deals with topics related to the history of art in Heidelberg, as well as with Goethe and his relationships with art and artists. In Thieme-Becker he wrote about Anthoni ( master employed at the Ottheinrichsbau of Heidelberg Castle ) and about Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann .

Fonts (selection)

  • German mysticism and German art (Studies on German Art History, Issue 21) . JH Ed. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel), Strasbourg 1899 ( archive.org ). (Dissertation, p. 91 CV).
  • The aesthetic meaning of Gœthes color theory . C. Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, Heidelberg 1903 ( archive.org ).
  • About painting style and style in Dutch art . C. Winter's University Bookstore, Heidelberg 1903.
  • Anthoni, the master of the Ottheinrichsbau in Heidelberg . C. Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, Heidelberg 1905 ( archive.org ).
  • Albrecht Dürer and Friedrich II of the Palatinate . JH Ed. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel), Strasbourg 1905 ( archive.org ).
  • Christoph Heinrich Kniep . In: Goethe-Jahrbuch 26, 1905, pp. 225-258 ( digitized version ).
  • Heidelberg in the art history of the 19th century . C. Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, Heidelberg 1906 ( archive.org ).
  • Goethe and the origins of more recent German landscape painting . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1907 ( archive.org ).
  • Albrecht Dürer: Albrecht Dürer's instruction of the measurement . Süddeutsche Monatshefte, Munich 1908 ( archive.org ).
  • On the subject: "Goethe and the fine arts" . In: Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft 32, 1909, pp. 172–181 ( digitized version ).
  • About portrait painting . Paul Neff, Esslingen 1910.

literature

  • Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803-1932 . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 3-540-15856-1 , p. 202.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav Peltzer in heidermanns.net; Laura ter Meer in heidermanns.net
personal data
SURNAME Peltzer, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1914
Place of death Putz