Carl Frey

This article is about the art historian Carl Frey. For other people see Karl Frey .

Carl Frey , also Karl Frey , (born November 26, 1857 in Berlin ; † March 11, 1917 there ) was a German art historian .

Life

Carl Frey visited the Frederick High School in Berlin and then studied at the University of Berlin , where he 1881 in History of the Middle Ages with the work The fates of the royal good in Germany under the last Staufer doctorate was. With the support of Herman Grimm , he completed his habilitation there in 1883 in art history with a work on the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence. From autumn 1885 Frey temporarily taught art history at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , but in the spring of 1887 he returned to the Berlin University as an associate professor for art history, where he taught until his death.

Already in his habilitation, he showed his approach to dealing with Florentine Renaissance art : researching the sources. Subsequently, he dealt with the artists' works of Giorgio Vasari , Antonio Billi and Anonimo Magliabechiano , but also with the painterly work of Giotto di Bondone . Then he turned mainly to the work of Michelangelo .

His eldest son was the administrative lawyer Herman-Walther Frey (1888–1968).

Publications (selection)

• The fate of the royal property in Germany under the last Hohenstaufen since King Philip. Hertz, Berlin 1881.
• The Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence. A source-critical investigation. Hertz, Berlin 1885 ( digitized ).
• Collection of selected biographies by Vasari. For use during lectures. 4 volumes. Hertz, Berlin 1884-1887 ( digitized volume 1 ; volume 3 ).
• Il libro di Antonio Billi esistente in due copie nelle Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze. Berlin 1892 ( digitized ).
• Il Codice Magliabechiano cl. XVII. 17 contenente notizie sopra l'arte degli antichi e quella de 'Fiorentini da Cimabue a Michelangelo Buonarroti, step da Anonimo Fiorentino. Edited and provided with an outline on the Florentine art historiography except for G. Vasari. Grote, Berlin 1892 ( digitized version ).
• The seals of Michelagniolo Buonarroti. Grote, Berlin 1897 ( digitized version ).
• Michelagniolo's youth (= Michelagniolo Buonarroti. Sources and research on history and art, volume 1). K. Curtius, Berlin 1907 ( digitized version ).
• Edited by Herman-Walther Frey: The literary estate of Giorgio Vasaris. 2 volumes. Georg Müller, Munich 1923–1930.

literature

• Obituary. In: Art Chronicle. Weekly for arts and crafts NF 28, 1917, Sp. 279 ( digitized version ).
• Georg Gronau : About Carl Frey as a researcher. In: Art Chronicle. Weekly for arts and crafts. NF 28, 1917, Col. 305-308 ( digitized version ).
• Fabian Jonietz: Carl Frey (1857–1917) e il rapporto tra “style criticism” e “source criticism”. In: Francesco Caglioti, Andrea De Marchi, Alessandro Nova (eds.): I conoscitori tedeschi tra Otto e Novecento. Officina Libraria, Milan 2018, ISBN 978-88-97737-80-3 , pp. 139-160, 204-211.

Web links

Wikisource: Carl Frey  - Sources and full texts

• Dictionary of Art Historians