Carl Maria Cornelius

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Carl Maria Cornelius (born July 21, 1868 in Munich ; † 1945 ) was a German art historian .

Life

Carl Cornelius was the son of the composer Peter Cornelius (1824–1874). He studied art history at the Universities of Jena , Munich , Strasbourg and Basel and received his doctorate from the University of Basel with a dissertation on Jacopo della Quercia in 1896 under Heinrich Wölfflin (1864–1945), with whom he was lifelong friend . In 1898 he completed his habilitation at the University of Freiburg , where he then worked as a private lecturer. In early 1905, he succeeded Heinrich Alfred Schmid as full professor of art history at the University of Basel. In 1909, however, he left Basel again and settled in Munich as a private scholar . He had his summer residence on the Sonnenköpfl on Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden , which he sold in 1935 for financial reasons.

On January 14, 1929, he married the ten years younger painter Therese Luise Schneegans (1878–1971), a daughter of the writer Ludwig Schneegans (1842–1922), in Munich .

Cornelius owned the estate of his father Peter Cornelius, which he increased. In 1925 he published a two-volume biography of his father. In 1950, the city of Mainz acquired the estate from the widow, which today forms the core of the Peter Cornelius archive in the Mainz city library .

Fonts (selection)

  • Jacopo della Quercia. An art historical study . Halle 1896 (dissertation).
  • Portrait art. Part II. The Middle Ages . Freiburg 1901 (habilitation thesis).
  • (Ed.): Peter Cornelius: Literary Works. Selected letters along with diary sheets and occasional poems . 2 volumes. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1904–05.
  • Peter Cornelius. The word and sound poet (= German Music Library. Vol. 46–47). 2 volumes. G. Bosse, Regensburg 1925.

literature

  • Wilhelm Kosch u. a. (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon . Biographical-bibliographical manual . Volume 2, Francke, Bern 1969, p. 766.
  • Mosaic image of a friendship. Ricarda Huch's correspondence with Elisabeth and Heinrich Wölfflin. Edited and commented by Heidy Margrit Müller. Iudicium, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-89129-089-6 , p. 163. 210 Fig. 4 (seated in the foreground).

Web links

  • Estate in the German Literature Archive in Marburg

Remarks

  1. ↑ Margit Anna Fladenhofer: Therese Cornelius Snow Goose 1878-1971 . Diploma thesis at the University of Vienna 2008 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Cornelius, Carl Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cornelius, Karl Maria; Cornelius, Carl; Cornelius, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 1945