Edmund Hildebrandt

Edmund Hildebrandt (born April 29, 1872 in Berlin ; died January 13, 1939 ) was a German art historian .

Life

Edmund Hildebrandt attended the Fridericianum high school. He studied art history and German philology in Berlin and was introduced to Friedrich Tieck in 1898 . A contribution to the history of German sculpture in the age of Goethe and the Romantic era with Herman Grimm and in 1908 with Heinrich Wölfflin on the life, works and writings of the sculptor E.-R. Palconet 1716-1791 qualified as a professor.

From 1908 he was a private lecturer at the Berlin Institute and in 1921 received a teaching position for modern art history.

He was mainly concerned with the Italian Renaissance , the Baroque and the connection between theater and visual arts. On June 26, 1937, for racist reasons, he lost his license to teach, which Wilhelm Pinder had extended over the age of 65 in the spring .

Hildebrandt is the father of the theologian Franz Hildebrandt .

Fonts

• Leonardo da Vinci , The artist and his work, Berlin 1927
• Eighteenth-century painting and sculpture in France, Germany and England , 1924
• Antoine Watteau , 1922, 2nd edition 1923

literature

• Irmtraud Thierse: Exclusion, persecution and expulsion of scholars at the Art History Institute of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin in the time of National Socialism , in: Horst Bredekamp (Ed.): In der Mitte Berlins - 200 years art history at the Humboldt University ( Humboldt-Schriften zur Kunst- und Bildgeschichte 12), Berlin 2010, pp. 327–338, here p. 335
• Hildebrandt, Edmund , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Art Historians in Exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , p. 299