Anneliese Bulling

Anneliese Bulling (born April 21, 1900 in Ellwürden , Wesermarsch ; died February 9, 2004 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA ) was an art historian with a focus on Chinese art history.

Life

Anneliese Bulling came from a wealthy, long-established and well-educated family of landowners in Butjadingen. After a short marriage, which was declared invalid in 1927, she studied art history and sinology in Berlin with Otto Kümmel , Erich Haenisch and Albert Erich Brinckmann . In 1935 she received her doctorate on a topic on Chinese architecture. In the same year she emigrated to Great Britain with her partner, the Jewish architect Erwin Gutkind . In 1946 she found employment as a Research Scholar at the Universities China Committee, and in 1947 as a Research Scholar in Cambridge . When Gutkind received a call to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1956 , Bulling married him and moved with him to the United States. In 1966, Bulling worked as a Research Associate for Chinese Art and Archeology at Columbia University in New York. Her husband died in 1968.

Anneliese Bulling, who died in 2004 at the age of 103, left an extensive legacy of letters (over 4,000 letters) to the Oldenburg City Museum .

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Anneliese Bulling's main research focus was Chinese art history, particularly architecture and handicrafts. She developed a theory according to which the Chinese characters emerged from prehistoric (Neolithic) astronomical calendar symbols.

Fonts (selection)

• Chinese architecture from the Han period to the end of the T'ang period . Lyon 1935 (dissertation).
• Neolithic Symbols and the Purpose of art in China . In: The Burlington Magazine 82, 1943, pp. 91-101
• The Meaning of China's most ancient art . Leiden 1952
• The Decoration of Mirrors of the Han Period (= Artibus Asiae Supplementum 20). Ascona 1960
• Archaeological Excavations in China 1949-1966 . In: Expedition. The Magazine of Archeology / Anthropology 14, 1972, pp. 2–12 ( digitized version )

literature

• Andreas Vonderach : From Ellwürden to Hampstead: The letters of the Oldenburg emigrant Anneliese Bulling. A contribution to the mentality history of the Oldenburg bourgeoisie in the time of National Socialism (= Rüstringer library ) Edited by the Rüstringer Heimatbund, Nordenham 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-027620-0 .
• Martin Kern: The Emigration of Sinologists 1933–1945. The unwritten story of their losses . In: Helmut Martin, Christiane Hammer (Hrsg.): Chinawissenschaften - German-language developments. History, people, perspectives . Hamburg 1999, pp. 222-242
• Rudolf Hierl: Erwin Anton Gutkind . Dissertation Marburg 1989.
• 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. KG Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 76-78.

Web links

• Literature by and about Anneliese Bulling in the catalog of the German National Library