Berta Segall

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Berta Segall (born May 15, 1902 in Kirchenjahn , Marienwerder district , German Empire ; died July 4, 1976 in Basel ) was a German art historian and archaeologist.

Life

Berta Segall was a daughter of the factory owner Leo Segall (1864–1932) and Ida Kutzwor, she had four siblings. One uncle was the chemical entrepreneur Sali Segall (1866–1925). Segall attended the secondary school for girls in Allenstein , a college in Königsberg in Prussia and graduated from high school in Allenstein in 1921. Segall studied art history and classical archeology in Berlin, Freiburg im Breisgau, Leipzig, at the Hertziana in Rome, in Hamburg and Vienna. She received her doctorate in Vienna in 1928 with the dissertation On Hand Drawing of the Middle Ages by Julius von Schlosser .

Segall then worked in Berlin as an unpaid research assistant and with contracts for work at the State Museums and created a directory of all objects in the collection of the antiquarian museum in the Altes Museum . After power was handed over to the National Socialists in 1933, their contract was no longer renewed for racist reasons.

Segall then emigrated to England. She went to the British School at Athens in Athens and found employment in the Benaki Museum in 1934 , where she cataloged the goldsmith's work. Due to the increasing anti-Semitism in Greece, she emigrated to the USA in 1938. In Baltimore, she cataloged antique jewelry at the Walters Art Gallery , in 1942 she worked at the Bliss collection in Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, and then received a two-year Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars scholarship for her work on antique jewelry to finish. Segall then worked at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and at Johns Hopkins University . In 1956, Erich Meyer brought her to Hamburg as a curator at the Museum of Art and Industry . Segall gave up work in Hamburg in 1959 and moved to Basel , where she lived as a private scholar.

Fonts (selection)

  • Catalog of goldsmithing works Museum Benaki. Pyrsos printing house, Athens 1938
  • Ernst Homann-Wedeking , Berta Segall (ed.): Festschrift Eugen v. Mercklin . Stiftland-Verlag, Waldsassen 1964
  • Tradition and New Creation in Early Exandrinian Cabaret . Berlin: de Gruyter, Berlin 1966
  • On the Greek goldsmith's art of the fourth century BC Chr. F. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1966

literature

  • Segall, Berta , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Art Historians in Exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 639-641
  • Alexandra Kankeleit: Athens, Greece. "As always, Copenhagen is enjoying itself on the edge of the abyss." Two German archaeologists in exile: Berta Segall and Willy Schwabacher in May 1939 . In: e-research reports of the DAI Fasc. 2, 2019, pp. 84-96 ( digitized version ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The statements about the years after 1956 are contradictory, here based on Alexandra Kankeleit, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Segall, Berta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchenjahn , Marienwerder district
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1976
Place of death Basel