Berthold Riehl

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Berthold Riehl (born June 10, 1858 in Munich ; † April 5, 1911 there ) was a German art historian .

Life

Berthold Moritz Riehl, who graduated from the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich in 1878 , was the son of the cultural historian, sociologist and novelist Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl (from 1883 by Riehl), Privy Councilor and Professor in Munich, and his first wife, the singer Bertha, née. von Knoll (1824-1894). He studied art history at the Universities of Vienna and Munich , and obtained his doctorate in 1883. phil. with the dissertation St. Michael and St. Georg in the fine arts and habilitation in 1884. From 1887 Riehl held lectures on art history and aesthetics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, from 1890 he taught as an associate professor and from 1898 as a full professor Art history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From 1898 he was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

In 1884 he married Marie Anna Margaretha Petri from Kassel (* 1861). The two sons of this marriage, Wilhelm and Berthold, died in childhood.

Having already scholars like Ludwig Schorn , Andreas Florian Meilinger and Moritz Carrière lectures in art history at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich were held, Riehl was in 1890 the first professor of art history at the university and founded under the name of Art History and print collection of Art History Institute. Under his direction, his work focused on studies of regional Bavarian art history; under his successors Heinrich Wölfflin , Wilhelm Pinder and Hans Jantzen , the field of work was extended to the entire German-speaking area.

As early as 1888, Aby Warburg heard Riehl's lectures, and Paul Frankl was one of his students. In 1888 his book Kunsthistorische Wandereung durch Bayern was published , 1893 German and Italian art characters , 1898 The art on Brennerstrasse , 1912 Bavaria's Danube Valley. A thousand years of German art .

Fonts (selection)

  • Sanct Michael and Sanct Georg in the fine arts . Diss. Univ. Munich. Hübschmann, Munich 1883
  • History of the moral image in German art up to the death of Pieter Breughel the Elder : Spemann; Berlin u. Stuttgart 1884
  • On Bavarian art history / 1: The oldest monuments of Bavarian painting . Spemann; Berlin [u. a.] 1885
  • Monuments of early medieval architecture in Bavaria, Bavarian Swabia, Franconia and the Palatinate . Hirth, Munich [u. a.] 1888
  • German and Italian art characters . Keller, Frankfurt a. M. 1893
  • The small Bavarian sculpture of the early Romanesque period . G. Franz, Munich a. Lpz. 1894
  • Studies on the history of Bavarian painting in the 15th century . Franz, Munich 1895
  • The art on the Brennerstrasse . Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1898
  • From Dürer to Rubens: a historical study of German and Dutch painting in the 16th century . Publishing house of the K. Academy, Munich 1900
  • History of stone and wood sculpture in Upper Bavaria: from the 12th to the middle of the 15th century : Franz, Munich 1902
  • Augsburg . Seemann, Leipzig 1903
  • Munich sculpture at the turn of the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . Publishing house of the K. Academy, Munich 1904
  • International and national traits in the development of German art . Publishing house of the K. Akademie, Munich 1906
  • Studies of miniatures of Dutch prayer books from the 15th and 16th centuries in the Bavarian National Museum and in the Court and State Library in Munich : Verlag der K. Akademie, Munich 1907
  • Bavaria's Danube Valley: a thousand years of German art . Müller, Munich [u. a.] 1912

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1877/78

literature

  • Hermann Degener (Ed.): Who is it? , 4th edition, Leipzig 1909
  • Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog , Vol. 16, 1911. Reimer, Berlin 1914
  • Rudolf Vierhaus : German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition. Volume 8: Poethes - Schlueter . Saur, Munich 2007, p. 401
  • Antje Schneider: Berthold Riehl (1858–1911) , in: The Institute for Art History in Munich 1909-2009 [Art History Seminar] . Inst. For Art History, [Munich 2010]; Pp. 18-25

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personal data
SURNAME Riehl, Berthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1911
Place of death Munich