Dora Fanny Rittmeyer

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Dora Fanny Rittmeyer (born June 16, 1892 in St. Gallen ; † March 1, 1966 there ) was a Swiss art historian . Research into secular and sacred gold and silversmithing is associated with her name.

life and work

Dora Rittmeyer's great uncle was Emil Rittmeyer , her great cousin was the painter Susanne Rittmeyer (1871–1948) and her uncle Robert Rittmeyer . Since Rittmeyer's father died when she was five years old, she grew up with her younger brother Ludwig (1897–1963) with her mother and grandmother. After finishing school in St. Gallen and Geneva , she attended the arts and crafts school and then in Munich the “Debschitz School” of Wilhelm von Debschitz .

When the First World War broke out, Rittmeyer returned to St. Gallen where she worked as an assistant teacher. At the commercial college, Rittmeyer attended art history lectures with Adolf Fäh . In 1923, he arranged for her to work in a workshop for silversmiths and church goldsmiths , where she was able to work as a designer and chaser . The transition from two-dimensional to three-dimensional creation demanded practice in modeling from Rittmeyer, which she acquired above all in the production of portrait heads.

In 1928 Adolf Fäh suggested to Rittmeyer that the church treasure of St. Gallen Cathedral and the St. Gallen goldsmith's trade be the subject of their studies. This resulted in the two extensive St. Gallen New Year's sheets on the history of goldsmithing in the city of St. Gallen and then the goldsmiths in St. Gallen Cathedral .

Rittmeyer achieved the most important specialist achievement in the context of the Swiss art monuments inventory. In 1943 Dora Fanny Rittmeyer was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern .

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SURNAME Rittmeyer, Dora Fanny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss art historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1966
Place of death St. Gallen