Carl Georg Heise

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Carl Georg Heise (born June 28, 1890 in Hamburg ; † August 11, 1979 there ) was a German art historian . From 1945 to 1955 he headed the Hamburger Kunsthalle .

Career

Heise grew up in a Hamburg merchant family interested in art. Around 1906 Aby Warburg became his mentor, who recommended that he study art history with Wilhelm Vöge in Freiburg. Then he went to Adolph Goldschmidt in Halle and, against Warburg's advice, to Heinrich Wölfflin in Munich. In 1910 he undertook a trip to Italy with Wilhelm Waetzoldt and Warburg, which took him to Venice and finally to Ferrara, where Warburg was doing research on the frescoes in the Palazzo Schifanoia . In 1912 Warburg traveled with him to the art historians' congress in Rome. In 1914 he was turned away as a war volunteer and studied in Berlin and Kiel. There he received his doctorate on October 28, 1916 under Graf Vitzthum with a thesis on North German painting of the Middle Ages, which he dedicated to Warburg. In 1916 Heise worked at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, where he compiled an inventory catalog of the museum's older paintings on behalf of Gustav Pauli . From 1919 to 1921 he published the magazine Genius together with Giovanni Mardersteig and initially also Kurt Pinthus . Magazine for emerging and ancient art .

Act

St. Anne's Monastery in Lübeck
Kunsthalle Hamburg, old building

On May 1, 1920, he began his work as museum director of the St. Anne's Museum in Lübeck , succeeding Karl Schaefer . He was a sponsor of the Lübeck painter Erich Dummer , organized, among other things, his exhibition in the autumn of 1929 and wrote his obituary in the Lübeckische Blätter . In 1926 Heise developed the Jubelkugel as a lottery for private financing of the 700th anniversary of the city of Lübeck, which with an exhibition of Lübeck art outside of Lübeck also became a major representation of Lübeck's importance for art throughout Northern Europe. Carl Georg Heise initiated one of the first exhibitions for photographers in 1929. Pictures by Albert Renger-Patzsch , Emil Otto Hoppé , Hugo Erfurth and Wilhelm Castelli , a young Lübeck photographer, were shown. In 1931 he organized an exhibition in the Overbeck Society on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Katharineum together with the drawing teacher Hans Peters with works by the students.

Through his vehement defense of the modern German art, he was in the course of Gleichschaltung relieved from office on 29 September 1933 that he knew not until January 1, 1934th Until his successor Hans Schröder took office in June 1934, his office was temporarily held by his deputy, Theodor Riewerts . From 1928 to 1933 he lived in Lübeck's customs office at the Burgtor, which had previously been the honorary residence of the writer Ida Boy-Ed . During his time in Lübeck, Heise acquired works by expressionists such as Ernst Barlach (for the Katharinenkirche ), Franz Marc and especially Edvard Munch, as well as photographs of New Objectivity from Albert Renger-Patzsch . On his initiative, the building known today as Behnhaus was purchased for the city in 1921 and expanded as a museum. He is also the pioneer of the St. Katharinen Museum Church , which he saw in a visionary way as the Lübeck Art Sculpture Hall in the Baltic Sea region, which the plaster cast of the St. Jürgen Group by Bernt Notke is still a reminder today. Many of his acquisitions were later shown as part of the “ Degenerate Art ” exhibition.

After the war, from 1945 to 1955 he headed the Hamburger Kunsthalle , the Hamburger Kunstverein and held a professorship at the University of Hamburg . The Heise art history collection with 9,000 titles is now housed in the Bremen State and University Library . He is considered an important promoter of German classical modernism . The Senate awarded him for his work in 1960 with the Medal for Art and Science of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg .

Heise was married to Hildegard Heise since 1922 .

Fonts

  • As editor, conversation with Frederick the Great. Diaries of Henri de Catt 1758–1760. Translated by Clara Hertz. Kiepenheuer, Weimar 1916.
  • North German painting. Studies on their development history in the 15th century from Cologne to Hamburg. Wolff, Leipzig 1918.
  • Giovanni Mardersteig (Ed.): Genius. Pictures and essays on old and new art. Wolff, Munich 1920.
  • Lübeck plastic. Cohen, Bonn 1926.
  • Lübeck art preservation 1920–1933. On behalf of the head of the Museum für Kunst- u. Cultural history published. Lübeck 1934.
  • Mythical world of the Middle Ages. Fantasy and ornamental pieces by Lübeck workers from three centuries. 120 recordings by W. Castelli. Rembrandt, Berlin 1936.
  • German carvers of the Dürer period. Günther and Co., Berlin around 1940.
  • Personal memories of Aby Warburg. New York 1947.
  • The Lübeck Passion Altar by Hans Memling. Ellermann, Hamburg 1950.
  • Guide through the Hamburger Kunsthalle. Christians, Hamburg 1955.
  • (Ed.): Rembrandt von Rijn, Die Nachtwache 1642. Reclam, Stuttgart 1957.
  • Lovis Corinth. Portraits of his wife. Reclam, Stuttgart 1958.
  • The present moment. Speeches and essays from four decades. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1960.
  • The museum in the present and future. Lecture on the centenary of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. Cologne 1961.
  • Great draftsmen of the XIX. Century. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1959.
    • New edition: Gutenberg Book Guild, Frankfurt am Main 1960.

literature

  • Carl Georg Heise: Personal memories of Aby Warburg (= Gratia 43). Edited and commented by Björn Biester and Hans-Michael Schäfer. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz 2005, ISBN 3-447-05215-5 .
  • Peter Betthausen , Peter H. Feist , Christiane Fork: Metzler-Kunsthistoriker-Lexikon . Two hundred portraits of German-speaking authors from four centuries. Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 1999, ISBN 3-476-01535-1 , pp. 166-169.
  • Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 1: A – K. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , p. 278 ff.
  • Hamburger Kunsthalle and Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (ed.): The new view of things: Carl Georg Heises Lübeck photo collection from the 1920s . Exhibition catalog, Verlag Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 1995, ISBN 978-3-9229-0915-6 .
  • Jörg Traeger : Genius. Remembering Carl Georg Heise on his 100th birthday. In: Idea. Works, theories, documents (Yearbook of the Hamburger Kunsthalle) 9 (1990), pp. 13–36.
  • Jörg Traeger: Carl Georg Heise (died August 11, 1979). In: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 43 (1980), pp. 113–115; also reprinted in: Memorial words for Carl Georg Heise and Hildegard Heise, geb. Neumann, Verona 1980 (Stamperia Valdonega), pp. 31-36.
  • Abram B. Enns : Art and Bourgeoisie. The controversial twenties in Lübeck. Christians, Hamburg 1978, ISBN 3-7672-0571-8 .
  • Abram B. Enns: Carl Georg Heise and the Behn House Foundation. In: Der Wagen 1967. Max Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1967. pp. 29–37
  • Manfred F. Fischer : Heise, Carl Georg . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 178-179 .
  • Albert Renger-Patzsch : Lübeck. With an introduction by Carl Georg Heise. Published by Ernst Timm on behalf of the Nordic Society. Wasmuth, Berlin 1928, cover design by Alfred Mahlau .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation , accessed on January 9, 2014
  2. ^ Peter Betthausen, Peter H. Feist and Christiane Fork: Metzler-Kunsthistoriker-Lexikon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01535-1 , p. 167
personal data
SURNAME Heise, Carl Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1979
Place of death Hamburg