Eckart von Sydow

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Eckart von Sydow (born September 5, 1885 in Dobberphul , Königsberg Nm district ; † July 1, 1942 in Berlin ) was a German art historian and ethnologist .

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Eckhart von Sydow was the fourth child of Hans Kurt von Sydow (1852-1904) and his wife Elfriede Margarete von Wedel (* 1856). He received his doctorate in Halle in 1912 and was director of the Kestner Society from 1923 . Between 1933 and 1942 he worked as a lecturer at the Berlin Institute for Art and Visual History at the Humboldt University in Berlin in the art history department, where Adolph Goldschmidt and Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich also taught. Among his students were Hans Himmelträger and Werner Muensterberger . Von Sydow died in 1942. The ethnologist Martin Heydrich wrote his necrology .

Publications (selection)

  • The development of the figural decoration of the Christian altar-antependia and -retabula up to the 14th century. JH Ed. Heitz, Strasbourg 1912, Text Archive - Internet Archive
  • Cuno Amiet . An introduction to his painterly work. With 11 collotype plates. On the history of art abroad, issue 106. JH Ed. Heitz, Strasbourg 1913, Text Archive - Internet Archive
  • Critical commentary on Kant . Compiled from the reviews of Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel and provided with an introduction. Max Niemeyer publisher, Halle a. S. 1913, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
  • The idea of ​​the ideal kingdom in idealistic philosophy from Kant to Hegel in the context of historical-philosophical development. Published by Felix Meiner, Leipzig 1914, Wisconsin-USA *
  • The styles of architecture, sculpture and painting . In: What one must know , No. 13, Volume IV, No. 1 (April 1920), pp. 1–9, Wikimedia Commons
  • German expressionist culture and painting . With 14 picture supplements. Furrow art gifts: Second publication. Furche-Verlag, Berlin 1920, Textarchiv - Internet Archive , Textarchiv - Internet Archive
  • Exotic art . Africa and Oceania. With 45 illustrations and a plate. Leipzig: Verlag von Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1921 Princeton-USA
  • The culture of decadence . Sibyllen-Verlag. Second edition, Dresden 1922 Online
  • The art of primitive peoples and the prehistoric times Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin, 1923, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
  • Art and religion of primitive peoples . Gerhard Stalling Verlag, Oldenburg 1926, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
  • Primitive Art and Psychoanalysis . A Study of the Sexual Basis of the Fine Arts of Primitive Peoples. Imago-Bücherei X. Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 1927, Internet Archive
  • Handbook of African Sculpture: Volume One: The West African Sculpture. D. Reimer / E. Vohsen, Berlin 1930. Text archive - Internet Archive
  • The Religious Consciousness of Expressionism. New sheets for art and poetry , 1 (1918/19), January, pp. 193–194, 199. literaturkritik.de

Web links

Commons : Eckart von Sydow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Employee information : Eckart von Sydow: literaturkritik.de. Retrieved May 10, 2019 .
  2. ^ Entry Sydow in Gotha, p. 782
  3. ↑ Eckhart von Sydow: The development of the figural decoration of the Christian altar antependia and retabula up to the 14th century . Preface  - Internet Archive
  4. ↑ 1923. The portfolios of the Kestner Society. In: sprengel-museum.de. May 16, 2008, accessed May 10, 2019 .
  5. ↑ KIT - IKB - Berlin. August 10, 2012, accessed May 10, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Foundation. Institute for Art and Visual History, HU Berlin, accessed on May 10, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Hans and Ulrike Himmelträger: Stations of Life - About Africa. Retrieved May 10, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Ethnologischer Anzeiger , IV, 505–508, Stuttgart 1944
personal data
SURNAME Sydow, Eckart von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Dobberphul , Königsberg district Nm.
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1942
Place of death Berlin