Anton Springer
Anton Springer (born July 13, 1825 in Prague , † May 31, 1891 in Leipzig ; full name: Anton Heinrich Springer ) is one of the leading German art historians of the 19th century.
Life
Anton Springer studied philosophy and history in Prague , where he also received his doctorate , but after study trips that took him to Italy and Germany, and a little later to Belgium, France and England, devoted himself to art history from 1846 . In Tübingen he wrote a second dissertation on Hegel's conception of history in 1847 . In between he was also politically active and initiated a press campaign against the ban on theater performances in Tübingen. In 1848 he gave lectures on the “History of the Revolutionary Age” at Prague University , but had to leave Prague because of his radical political views. Then Springer was first a lecturer from 1852 to 1872, and from 1860 professor for art history at the University of Bonn .
After a brief teaching position in Strasbourg , in 1873 he filled the newly established chair for art history at the Philosophical Faculty of Leipzig University as a full professor for the history of Middle and Modern Art . The historian Heinrich Wuttke tried to prevent this, but was unsuccessful. Since 1875 he was a full member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences .
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Springer was one of the first to understand art history as a strictly scientific subject, which is why he sharply criticized the literary-romantic approach to art that was widespread at the time, as practiced by Herman Grimm , or the unreflected art-historical outpouring of Hermann Knackfuß . He wrote numerous treatises on Western art, such as a guide to the architecture of the Christian Middle Ages (1854), a handbook of art history (1855), a history of the visual arts in the 19th century (1858), published iconographic studies (1860) and a treatise on contemporary visual arts (1875) and authored books on Raffael and Michelangelo (1878). Springer provided the art-historical treatises for many Baedeker travel guides . A book about Albrecht Dürer (1892) was published posthumously . Finally, the fact that he introduced a chair for the subject of art history at three universities should be mentioned, with which he also created the institutional framework for the specialized art history.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Springer, Anton Heinrich . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 36th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1878, pp. 268–273 ( digitized version ).
- Johannes Rößler: Poetics of Art History: Anton Springer, Carl Justi and the Aesthetic Concept of German Art History, Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-050-044514 .
- Johannes Rößler: Springer, Anton. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 757-759 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Anton Springer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Overview of Anton Springer's courses at Leipzig University (summer semester 1873 to summer semester 1891)
- Anton Springer in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
- Works by Anton Springer in Project Gutenberg ( currently not usually available for users from Germany )
- Anton Springer at arthistoricum.net - the historical context and digitized works in the “History of Art History” portal
Individual evidence
- ^ Members of the SAW: Anton Springer. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed December 3, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Springer, Anton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Springer, Anton Heinrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 31, 1891 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |