Carl Linfert

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Carl Josef Linfert, also Karl Josef (* July 14, 1900 in Cologne ; † May 30, 1981 ibid) was a German art historian, journalist and radio editor.

Life

Carl Linfert received his doctorate in political science in 1924 and in art history in 1927. He volunteered at several Cologne museums. In the 1920s he began to write for the Frankfurter Zeitung , where he then worked as a correspondent and editor from 1930 . Until 1943 he was in the Berlin branch of the newspaper a. a. active as a film and theater critic. In 1939 he married the dancer and later dance teacher Katharina Elisabeth Simons (stage name: Araça Makarowa) (1905–1964) in Berlin.

Gravesite of Carl, Katharina and Andreas Linfert (2015)

After the war he founded the Kurier together with Paul Bourdin in Berlin, and he headed the culture department. In 1949, Linfert accepted an offer from what was then the NWDR in Cologne to set up the scientific night program. He headed this program until his retirement in 1966. From 1962 he was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

His son was the classical archaeologist Andreas Linfert (1942-1996).

The grave of the Linfert family is located in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 88).

Publications (selection)

  • The fantasy architecture drawing of the French from the end of Louis Quatorze to Louis Seize (Oppenort to Delafosse) . Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, Berlin 1931 (also: Cologne, Phil. Diss., 1927).
  • Albrecht Altdorfer: The Unveiling of the Landscape . Workshop f. Letterpress and Verl., Mainz 1938.
  • Former Cologne master . Bruckmann, Munich 1941.
  • The paintings / Hieronymus Bosch . Phaidon Verlag, Cologne 1959.
  • About the viewers of the painters: picture of a decade . Kiepenheuer u. Witsch, Cologne / Berlin 1966.
  • Hieronymus Bosch . DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1970, ISBN 3-7701-0519-2 .

literature

  • Carl Linfert - Congratulations from his friends on their 60th birthday . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne / Berlin 1960.
  • Ursula Heukenkamp (ed.): Under the emergency roof. Post-war literature in Berlin 1945–1949 . Schmidt, Berlin 1996, p. 546 (short biography).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Katharina E. Simons - death certificate no. 937 from June 4, 1964, registry office Cologne old town. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved May 25, 2018 .
  2. ^ Historical archive of the city of Cologne (ed.): Music. Theatre. Dance. Literature. Museums - art and culture in Cologne after 1945. Wienand Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-87909-455-1 , p. 143.
  3. ^ Carl Linfert , entry at the German Academy for Language and Poetry.
personal data
SURNAME Linfert, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linfert, Carl Josef (full name); Linfert, Karl Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, journalist and radio editor
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1981
Place of death Cologne