Arthur Galliner

Arthur Galliner (born October 9, 1878 in Zinten / East Prussia , † December 12, 1961 in London ) was a German painter, art historian and lecturer.

Live and act

Galliner was born on October 9, 1878 in Zinten, East Prussia. His parents were the teacher and cantor Jonas Galliner and Lina Galliner, b. Pianikowski. He had a sister and six brothers, including Rabbis Julius and Siegfried Galliner . First, Galliner attended elementary school in Zinten. From 1893 to 1898 he completed training at the preparatory institute and the Jewish teacher training institute in Berlin. He then worked for two years as an assistant teacher at schools in the Berlin Jewish community and from 1900 at the Philanthropin in Frankfurt am Main. In the following years he trained as a drawing teacher for higher educational institutions and teacher training colleges and in 1903 became a secondary school teacher. In total, he taught art at Philanthropin for almost 40 years.

From 1900 Galliner attended the Royal Art School and Academy in Berlin as well as the Academy of Fine Arts and the Hermann Groeber Painting School in Munich. During stays in Italy, he continued his studies. In 1915 he obtained his Abitur at the Realgymnasium in Marburg and then studied art history, German literature and history at the University of Frankfurt am Main . In 1918 he received his doctorate there for Dr. phil. In 1920 he passed the examination for the higher teaching post. He worked in Frankfurt as a lecturer in art history at the Bund für Volksbildung and at the Jüdisches Lehrhaus . In 1922 he married the pharmacist Paula Ali Wiesenfelder (1896–1971) from Bamberg .

After the seizure of power , Galliner was subjected to massive persecution. He was released and briefly arrested in November 1938 because he had been temporarily president of the Frankfurt Lodge B'nai B'rith . In 1939 he emigrated from National Socialist Germany and went to England. First he worked until 1946 as an art teacher at the college in Ellesmere , a town in Shropshire . He was naturalized in 1947 and then lived in London, where he had his own gallery. From 1947 to 1950 he taught at the local Hammersmith School of Art and then until 1952 at the Borough Polytechnic .

Galliner mainly painted watercolors with landscape motifs and portraits of Jewish personalities such as Leo Baeck , Lazarus Goldschmidt and Martin Buber . He exhibited his pictures in various galleries in Germany and England, including the London galleries of the RI and the RBA . More than 50 Galliner exhibitions have taken place in England. He was a member of the B'nai B'rith Leo Baeck Lodge in London, where he exhibited pictures together with Leo Horovitz in 1948. The Danish Royal Library keeps some of his works.

He published several art historical writings, including on the painter Max Liebermann (1927). He also wrote articles for the Encyclopaedia Judaica and the German Association for Art History.

Galliner died on December 12, 1961, leaving behind his wife. The author and artist Gabriella Gros-Galliner (approx. 1923–1984), who was born in Frankfurt and lives in England, was his daughter.

Publications (selection)

• Max Liebermann, the artist and the leader. J. Kauffmann Verlag , Frankfurt a. M. 1927 ( online ).
• Sigismund Stern, the reformer and the educator. Englert & Schlosser, Frankfurt a. M. 1930.
• Medieval stained glass from Wimpfen. Urban-Verlag, Freiburg 1932.

literature

• Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Volume 1: A-K. Saur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 185 f.
• Peter Bloch : My teachers. Selbstverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008 (contains a portrait and an illustration of a self-portrait by Arthur Galliner).
• Galliner, Arthur . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 192 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Arthur Galliner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Arthur Galliner in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Brocke , Katrin Nele Jansen: Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Volume 2, Walter de Gruyter, 2004, p. 211
2. ↑ Franz Kössler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. Professional biographies from school annual reports and school programs. (PDF file; 5.39 MB) Giessen University Library, 2008.
3. ↑ The Philanthropin ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 3.60 MB) AJR Information, March 1955, p. 7. 
4. ^ Galliner, Arthur In: Paul Arnsberg : The history of the Frankfurt Jews since the French Revolution. Volume 3, Roether, Darmstadt 1983.
5. ^ ^{A b} Galliner, Arthur. In: 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. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 .
6. ↑ ^{a b} Dr. Arthur Galliner, 80 ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 5.80 MB) AJR Information, October 1958, p. 8. 
7. ^ ^{A b c} David Buckman: Galliner, Arthur In: Artists in Britain Since 1945. A - L. Art Dictionaries Ltd, Bristol 2006, ISBN 978-0-953-26095-9 .
8. ↑ Exhibition Galliner-Horovitz ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 2.97 MB) AJR Information, February 1948, p. 7. 
9. ↑ Arthur Galliner ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 4.32 MB) AJR Information, January 1962, p. 9. According to other sources, Galliner died on December 13, 1961, cf. Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Saur, 1998. 
10. ↑ Mrs. Gabriella Gros-Galliner. ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 3.94 MB) AJR Information, December 1984, p. 9.