Berthold Haendcke

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Berthold Haendcke (born July 2, 1862 in Altona , † April 11, 1951 in Meiningen ) was a German art historian .

Life

The son of the Altona publisher Heinrich Friedrich Samuel Haendcke and his wife (one née Lehmkuhl) grew up in a family home with an upscale lifestyle and had experienced his youth in Hamburg. He had studied with Heinrich von Brunn (1822–1894) and Berthold Riehl (1858–1911) at the University of Munich , with Jacob Burckhardt at the University of Basel and with Herman Grimm at the University of Berlin . At the age of 23 he received his doctorate in philosophy with the distinction summa cum laude . He then went on art history journeys that took him through Central Europe, Italy and Spain. In 1888 he qualified as a professor at the University of Bern with a paper on the depictions of Mary, which is no longer preserved .

After some time as a private lecturer in art history, he accepted an appointment in the same function at the University of Jena in 1894 . Here he became an associate professor of art history in 1895 and a full professor of art history at the University of Königsberg in 1899 . Associated with it, he was director of the Art History Institute in Königsberg. Haendcke also took part in the organizational tasks of the Königsberg University. He was dean of the philosophical faculty several times and was the rector's office of the university in 1909/10 . After he had been appointed a secret councilor, he retired on October 1, 1927. The events of the Second World War took him to Thuringia, where he died of pleurisy in the Meiningen hospital.

Haendcke was an art historian who had dealt a lot with the works of Albrecht Dürer and his relations with Italy. Comparative analyzes of the Gothic and its further development up to the Renaissance in different European countries formed the focus of his work. In addition, he had also analyzed and evaluated other art epochs, especially in relation to his own work in Königsberg. His work was also always focused on making scientific research accessible to the general public and thus becoming a universal good of human consciousness.

Publications (selection)

Haendcke had left a large number of specialist articles in various specialist journals and magazines of his time. Independent publications have also appeared in print.

  • Berthold Furtmeyr, his life and works . Hamburg 1885
  • Nikolaus Manuel Deutsch as an artist . Frauenfeld, 1889
  • Daniel Lindtmayer, based on the hand drawings in the Royal Museum of Applied Arts and the Royal Kupferstichkabinett . In: Yearbook of the Royal Prussian Art Collections Vol. 10, 1889
  • Arnold Böcklin in his historical and artistic development . Hamburg 1890
  • Bibliography of Swiss cultural studies, architecture, sculpture, painting . Bern 1892
  • Hans Sterr, the glass painter from Bern . 1892
  • Swiss painting in the 16th century, on this side of the Alps, taking into account glass painting, topiary and copper engraving . Aarau 1893
  • The puncture carriers of the thirteen old towns after the woodcuts by Urs Graf . Aarau and Basel 1893
  • History of Swiss painting in the 16th century . 1893
  • Urs Graf and his pannier carrier . 1893
  • with August Müller: The cathedral in Bern . Basel 1894
  • Dürer's relations with Jacopo de Barbari, Pollaiuolo and Bellini . In: Yearbook of the Royal Prussian Art Collections, Vol. 19, 1898, pp. 161–170
  • The chronology of the landscapes of Albrecht Dürer . Strasbourg 1899
  • Max Klinger as an artist (= On Modern Art, Issue 2). Strasbourg 1899
  • Studies on the history of Spanish sculpture. Juan Martinez, Alonso Cano, Pedro de Mena, Fracisco Zarcillo (= foreign art history . Issue 1). Strasbourg 1900
  • Studies on the history of Saxon sculpture in the late Renaissance and Baroque periods . Dresden 1903
  • Child and art . Leipzig 1906
  • German Culture in the Age of the Thirty Years War . Leipzig 1906
  • German art and the natural environment (= lecture material for folk and family evenings, series 1, issue 28). Leipzig 1908 (cover 1907)
  • German art in daily life until the end of the 18th century . Leipzig 1907
  • The role of the hand in a painted portrait In: Westermanns Monatsheften, vol. 1907, pp. 663–676
  • Nineteen Centuries of Art Analyzes, A Handbook for Viewing Works of Art . Brunswick 1908.
  • The undressed man in Christian art for nineteen centuries. An art and cultural historical investigation . Strasbourg 1910
  • Martin Luther's Reformation and Art . 1917
  • Development history of styles . Bielefeld 1913, Bielefeld 1924
  • The French-German-Dutch influence on Italian art from around 1200 to around 1650 . Strasbourg 1925
  • Did women create German culture? Graz and Salzburg 1933
  • Germania and the Orient from the beginning to the present, an art-historical-commercial-historical investigation . Leipzig 1942

literature

  • Hermann A. Ludwig Degner: Who is it. Our contemporaries, contemporaries lexicon containing biographies and bibliographies, information about origin, family, curriculum vitae, works, favorite occupations, party membership, membership in societies, address. Other communications of general interest. 2nd year, Verlag Degner, Leipzig, 1906, p. 419.
  • Wolfgang Engelhardt: Berthold Haendecke, July 2, 1862 - April 11, 1951. In: Yearbook of the Albertus University of Königsberg / Pr. Holzner-Verlag, Kitzingen / Main 1954, pp. 5–22 (with list of publications).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Piltz: Lecturer album of the University of Jena, 1858 to 1908 . Neuenhahn Verlag, Jena 1908, p. 30.
  2. ↑ Die Umschau 1927, p. 825.

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personal data
SURNAME Haendcke, Berthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1951
Place of death Meiningen