Conrad von Mandach

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Conrad von Mandach (born May 15, 1870 in Schaffhausen , † May 23, 1951 in Habstetten ) was a Swiss art historian .

Life

Conrad von Mandach, son of the businessman Johann Conrad von Mandach and his wife Julie Madeleine von Mandach, née von Wattenwyl, studied art history in Basel , Rome and Paris . In 1899 he received his doctorate in Paris and worked from 1903 to 1906 as a private lecturer at the University of Geneva . He then went to Paris as a private scholar and then taught at the Sorbonne .

In 1919 Conrad von Mandach became an employee of the Kunstmuseum Bern , where he worked as a curator from 1920 to 1943 . In this function he rearranged the collection and endeavored to expand it. In 1919 he completed his habilitation at the University of Bern , where he taught until 1940, initially as a private lecturer, and from 1936 as an honorary professor . From 1927 to 1931 he was a member of the Federal Art Commission and from 1929 to 1930 a member and from 1931 to 1948 President of the Federal Commission of the Gottfried Keller Foundation .

Carl von Mandach's specialty was the history of art in Switzerland, especially painting; he wrote entries on Swiss artists for Thieme-Becker .

Conrad von Mandach married the writer Marie Laure von Wattenwyl (1884–1964) in 1906. André von Mandach (1918–1998), the couple's son, became a Romanist .

Publications (selection)

  • Saint Antoine de Padoue et l'art italy. Étude iconographique . Librairie Renouard, H. Laurens, Paris 1898.
  • Exhibition of old Bernese masters from the Dr. Engelmann . Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern 1920.
  • Exhibition S. Freudenberger . Bern Art Museum. Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern 1923.
  • Exhibition Karl Stauffer-Bern in the Bern Art Museum . Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern 1925.
  • Albert Anker , 1831-1910. Bern Art Museum. Berner Kunstverein, Bern 1931.
  • Niklaus Manuel German . The Antoniustafel in the Kunstmuseum Bern. Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern 1935.
  • Guide through the Béatrice-von-Wattenwyl-Haus at Junkerngasse 59 in Bern. Directorate of Federal Buildings, Bern 1935.
  • Swiss country a hundred years ago. Gabriel Lory father and son . Iris-Verlag, Bern 1936.
  • Ferdinand Hodler memorial exhibition. Art Museum Bern. Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, 1938.
  • Cuno Amiet . Complete inventory of the artist's prints. Swiss Graphic Society, Thun 1939.
  • Oskar Reinhart Collection Winterthur . Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern 1940.
  • 450 years of Bernese art . Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern 1941.

literature

  • Prof. Dr. Conrad von Mandach died . In: Report on the activities of the Federal Commission of the Gottfried Keller Foundation 1951, pp. 7-10.
  • Max Huggler : Prof. Conrad von Mandach † . In: The work. Architektur und Kunst 38, 1951, issue 7, p. 99 ( digitized version ).
  • Michael Stettler : Three profiles. A reminder letter . In: Journal for Swiss Archeology and Art History 47, 1990, pp. 101-105 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank-Rutger Hausmann : André von Mandach in the Romanistenlexikon.
personal data
SURNAME Mandach, Conrad von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mandach, Johann Conrad von (full name); Mandach, Konrad von; Mandach, Conrad de; Mandach, C. von; Mandach, C. de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaffhausen
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1951
Place of death Habstetten