Andreas Aubert

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Andreas Aubert, around 1875
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Fredrik Ludvig Andreas Vibe Aubert (born January 28, 1851 in Christiania ; † May 10, 1913 ibid) was a Norwegian art historian and art critic. He is considered to be the rediscoverer of the work of Caspar David Friedrich in the 20th century.

Life

Andreas Aubert was born in Christiania as the son of the philologist Ludvig Cesar Martin Aubert (1807–1887) and his wife Ida Dorothea Maribo (1811–1900). He attended Statens håndverks-og kunstindustriskole from 1869 to 1871 before studying theology and graduating as cand.theol in 1877. attained. From 1878 to 1895, Aubert worked as a teacher at Aars and Voss . During the holidays he went on study trips to Paris, Germany and Italy. In 1886 he married Martha Johanne Védastine Moe (1855–1933). In 1895 he won an annual government grant with fundamental studies in the art of the painter Johan Christian Clausen Dahl , which allowed him to end his career as a teacher and to devote himself to art criticism and art historical research.

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Aubert wrote his first art reviews in 1878 and then regularly until 1882 for the Morgenbladet , later in Aftenposten . He earned a reputation as one of Norway's most important art critics. His inclination was naturalism with room for the subjective expression of poetry. Aubert was an advocate for a distinctive Norwegian feeling in the new open-air painting, especially the Fleskumsommeren artist group. He advised the art collector Olaf Schou and encouraged the Oslo National Gallery to buy Edvard Munch's paintings . In addition, he was in lively exchange with the Norwegian artist Gerhard Munthe .

The most extensive art-historical work of Aubert deals with the painter Johan Christian Clausen Dahl , on whose life and work he wrote his dissertation in 1896. Studies were also made on Edvard Munch, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes , Arnold Böcklin , Max Klinger , Gabriel von Max , Thomas Fearnley , Gerhard Munthe and Vilhelm Hammershøi . He described the artists of psychologically oriented painting as " neurasthenics ". A series of essays on French painting, impressionism, Claude Monet and Jean-François Millet was written on the occasion of the world exhibition in Paris in 1889 .

Aubert rediscovered the work of the painter Caspar David Friedrich at the beginning of the 20th century. He laid the first foundations for more recent Friedrich research. His fragmentary biography of the romantic was published posthumously in 1915 under the title Gott, Freiheit, Vaterland with a patriotically engaging foreword and used as an appeal to the Germans' perseverance during World War I. Aubert interpreted Friedrich's art as the embodiment of the Nordic-romantic feeling for nature . His interest also extended to other romantic painters such as Philipp Otto Runge . Aubert was a well-known figure among German art historians in the early 20th century. Among other things, he was in contact with Alfred Lichtwark , Julius Meier-Graefe and Bruno Cassirer .

Works (selection)

  • Thomas Fearnley. En biografisk skisse. Ved Kunstforeningens hundredeaars-utstilling av hans værker. Kristiania 1903.
  • The picturesque decoration of the San Francesco Church in Assisi. A contribution to solving the Cimabue question. Translated from the Norwegian by Clare Greverus. Hiersemann, Leipzig 1907.
  • Runge and romance. Cassirer, Berlin 1909.
  • Norwegian Painting in the XIXth Century, 1814 to 1900. Translated from the Norwegian by Walter Schmidt. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Munich 1910.
  • Caspar David Friedrich. God, freedom, fatherland. Edited from the estate of the author on behalf of the German Association for Art History by Guido Joseph Kern. Translation from Norwegian by Luise Wolf . Berlin 1915
  • Nordic landscape painting and Johan Christian Dahl. Safari-Verlag, Berlin 1947.

literature

  • Exhibition catalog Andreas Aubert about art, nature and nasjonalitet . National Museum Oslo, National Gallery, Oslo 1994

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Runge and Romanticism. Literaricon Verlag, accessed on March 22, 2020 .
  2. ^ Andreas Aubert: Caspar David Friedrich. God, freedom, fatherland. Edited by Guido Joseph Kern. Berlin 1915, p. 28 f.
personal data
SURNAME Aubert, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aubert, Fredrik Ludvig Andreas Vibe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian art historian and art critic
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Christiania
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1913
Place of death Christiania