Berthold Daun

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Berthold Otto Daun (born February 29, 1872 in Magdeburg , † after 1934) was a German art historian .

life and work

Daun studied at the University of Berlin and was there in 1896 when Karl Frey with a dissertation on Adam Krafft his time and the artists doctorate . From 1897 he taught as a lecturer at the Humboldt Academy , a private Berlin adult education center. In 1904 he came to Braunschweig from Berlin. He wrote a monograph on Peter Vischer and Adam Krafft, which was published in 1905 as issue 75 of the series Künstler-Monographien in Bielefeld. In 1904 he received his habilitation at the Herzoglich Technische Hochschule Carolo-Wilhelmina in Braunschweig and became a private lecturer in modern art history. In the directory of the employees of the General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present from 1905 he is named with the place Braunschweig, but wrote no article for the lexicon.

According to the entry in the Braunschweig address book, Daun lived at Roonstrasse 4 in 1909 and at Kastanienallee 34 in Braunschweig in 1911 and 1912.

He probably moved back to Berlin in 1914, where he was initially registered at Deidesheimer Strasse 12 in Wilmersdorf, later at Geisenheimer Strasse 26. In 1920 he was brought in by the Prussian Ministry of the Interior as a department head for art and theater affairs at the police headquarters in Berlin. Here he was appointed to the government council in 1929 and transferred to Schleswig-Holstein in 1932. From October 1933 he was back in Berlin and worked as a lecturer at the Humboldt Academy. From 1932 to 1934 he lived at Münchener Strasse 36 in Berlin-Schöneberg.

His better-known works include an artist's monograph on Rudolf Siemering , which was published in 1906. In other writings he dealt with Veit Stoss and his school in Germany, Poland, Hungary and Transylvania. He also gave lectures on famous artists such as Albrecht Dürer , Leonardo , Tizian , Correggio and French painting in the 19th century from David to Millet.

Fonts (selection)

  • Adam Krafft and the artists of his time. A contribution to the art history of Nuremberg . JF Starcke, Berlin 1896 ( archive.org - inaugural dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin).
  • French painting in the 19th century from David to Millet. E. Liesegang, Düsseldorf 1900, OCLC 253339355 .
  • Veit Stoss and his school in Germany, Poland, Hungary and Transylvania . Hiersemann, Leipzig 1903 ( archive.org - Second, completely redesigned and expanded edition. Leipzig 1916).
  • P. Vischer and A. Krafft (=  artist monographs. Volume 75 ). Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld 1905 ( sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de - digitized).
  • Siemering (=  artist monographs . Volume 80 ). Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld [u. a.] 1906 ( digitalesammlungen.uni-weimar.de - digitized version).
  • The art of the 19th century and the present. A plan of modern sculpture and painting . Neufeld & Henius, Berlin 1909, OCLC 916800672 .
  • The Glogau stone figures of Veit Stoss . In: monthly journals for art history . tape 7 , no. 3 , 1914, pp. 104-112 , JSTOR : 24493989 .
  • The founder of the Callimachus grave slab. In: The Christian Art. Volume 21, 1924/25, pp. 228-232.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The preface to Adam Krafft shows that he was already in Braunschweig on November 6, 1904, while the preface to Peter Vischer was written in Berlin on September 6, 1904. Berthold Daun: P. Vischer and A. Krafft (=  artist monographs . Volume 75 ). Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld 1905, foreword [to the monograph on Adam Krafft], p. 83 ( sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de - digitized version).
  2. ^ Supplement to the Allgemeine Zeitung. 1904, p. 384; Ducal Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina in Braunschweig. Program for the academic year 1904–1905. P. 14 ( publikationsserver.tu-braunschweig.de PDF).
  3. ↑ Directory of employees: Daun, Dr. B. Braunschweig . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Braunschweig address book for the year 1909 . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig, p. 74 ( publikationsserver.tu-braunschweig.de PDF).
  5. ↑ The German stage. 12, 1919, p. 720; The Cicerone. 12, 1920, p. 861; Art chronicle and art market. 1921, p. 174.
  6. ^ Address book of the German writers. 1933/1934.
  7. ^ Kaemmerer: Review: Berthold Daun: Veit Stoss and his school . In: monthly journals for art history . Issue 6. Leipzig Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1908, p. 175-177 ( archive.org ).
  8. ↑ Berthold Daun: Albrecht Dürer (=  projection lectures from art history . Issue 1). E. Liesegang, Düsseldorf 1899, OCLC 253339809 .
  9. ↑ Berthold Daun: Lionardo, Tizian, Correggio (=  projection lectures from art history . Issue 3). E. Liesegang, Düsseldorf 1900, OCLC 253339824 .
personal data
SURNAME Daun, Berthold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Daun, Berthold Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH after 1934