Bernhard Degenhart

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Bernhard Degenhart (born May 4, 1907 in Munich ; † September 3, 1999 there ) was a German art historian .

Life

Degenhart studied art history in Munich and in 1931 began a dissertation on Lorenzo di Credi's students with August Liebmann Mayer . After Mayer resigned because of anti-Semitic resentment, Degenhart finished his doctorate with Wilhelm Pinder . He then worked as a research assistant at the State Painting Collections in Munich . In 1932/33 he received a scholarship for the Art History Institute in Florence and then from October 1933 to August 1939 an assistant position at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome . At the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Degenhart met his first wife, the photographer and art historian Hilde Lotz-Bauer , in 1935 , but the marriage only lasted until 1939.

Degenhart subsequently specialized in the artists of the Quattrocento . From 1941 Degenhart devoted himself intensively to Pisanello. Between 1939 and 1945 he was registrar at the Albertina in Vienna . In Vienna he met the converted Jew Adelgunde Krippel, whom he married in 1943. Through her he got to know important personalities of the Austrian art scene, including Kajetan Mühlmann , one of the most important art thieves of the National Socialists . In 1940/41 Degenhart was a member of a group of art historians led by Mühlmann ("Dienststelle Mühlmann" in The Hague) who were involved in the confiscation and exploitation of works of art from Jewish property in the Netherlands. From 1943 he was deployed to the Armistice Commission in Turin. In April 1945 he worked for the German art protection in Italy.

In December 1949 Degenhart became a curator at the State Graphic Collection in Munich . On December 1, 1965, he became the director of the collection. In the 1950s Degenhart began the corpus of Italian drawings from 1300 to 1450 . With Annegrit Schmitt , whom he later married, Degenhart published several volumes on Italian drawings between 1300 and 1450. On December 31, 1970, Degenhart retired.

Degenhart's specialty was the drawings of the Italian early Renaissance , especially Antonio Pisanello .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Antonio Pisanello . A. Schroll & Co., Vienna 1940
  • European hand drawings: from 5 centuries . Atlantis-Verlag, Berlin, Zurich 1943
  • Italian drawings of the early 15th century . Amerbach-Verlag, Basel 1949
  • Furtwängler: Working sketches by a sculptor . Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1954
  • Contemporary Italian draftsman . Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1956
  • Marcello Mascherini . Municipal Gallery, Munich 1957
  • with Peter Halm , Wolfgang Wegner : Hundred master drawings from the State Graphic Collection in Munich . Prestel, Munich 1958
  • with Theodor Heuss: Hans von Marées: The frescos in Naples . Prestel, Munich 1958
  • with Karl-Heinz Hering and Ewald Rathke: Italian watercolors and drawings of the present . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1960
  • Emilio Greco : Kupferberg, Berlin / Mainz 1960
  • with Annegrit Schmitt : Jacopo Bellini: The drawings . Prestel, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7913-0669-3 .
  • with Annegrit Schmitt: Pisanello and Bono da Ferrara . Hirmer, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7774-6580-1 .
  • with Annegrit Schmitt: Corpus of Italian drawings 1300-1450 . Biering & Brinkmann, Munich

literature

  • Christian Fuhrmeister , Susanne Kienlechner: Nice crime scene: Art history between art trade, art theft and persecution. On the vita of August Liebmann Mayer, with an excursus on Bernhard Degenhart and remarks on Erhard Göpel and Lohse. In: Ruth Heftrig, Olaf Peters , Barbara Schellewald (eds.): Art history in the “Third Reich”. Theories, methods, practices. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004448-4 , pp. 405-429, esp. Pp. 422ff. ( Digitized version ).
  • Sabine Wölfel: Biographies . In: Michael Semff , Kurt Zeitler (Hrsg.): Artists draw - collectors donate. 250 years of the State Graphic Collection in Munich . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2179-0 , Vol. 3, 142-143.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry by Bernhard Degenhart (with a link to an obituary) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 24, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Degenhart, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1999
Place of death Munich