Elisabeth Maria Hajós
Elisabeth Maria Hajós (born January 15, 1900 in Nyíregyháza ; died 1982 ) was a Hungarian-American art historian .
Life
Elisabeth Maria Hajós was the daughter of the lawyer Alexander Hajós. She attended school in Budapest and studied art history, philosophy and literary history in Budapest, Freiburg im Breisgau and Berlin. She received her doctorate in 1924 with Hans Jantzen in Freiburg with the dissertation The Passion Sequence of the Master of Playing Cards in the Kupferstichkabinett in Dresden (Ms.).
Hajós then worked from 1925 to 1928 as an assistant at the graphic collection of the Albertina in Vienna and wrote art reviews. She made research trips in Europe. In 1936 she had a scholarship at the Hungarian Historical Institute in Vienna. In Budapest she worked as a lecturer at the Adult Education Center. Because of anti-Semitism in Hungary and Austria, Hajós emigrated to the USA in 1938.
In 1940/41 she held a visiting professorship at Georgian Court College in the USA, but did not find permanent employment and worked as a freelance art historian and art critic.
Fonts (selection)
- with Leopold Zahn : Berlin architecture of the post-war period . Introduction Edwin Redslob . Berlin: Albertus, 1928
- The painting collection Josef Cremer , Dortmund , in: Belvedere, 1929, p. 154f.
- Hungarian art in Nuremberg , in: Der Kunstwanderer: magazine for old and new art, for the art market and collecting. 1928/29
- The painter Josef Batò , in: Der Kunstwanderer: magazine for old and new art, for art market and collecting. 1931/32
- Budapest private collections , in: Der Kunstwanderer: A magazine for old and new art, for the art market and collecting. 1931/32
- Paintings by old masters . Exhibition at Acquavella Galleries , New York, 1945
- Sigmund Jakob Apin's handbook for the collector of portrait engravings , in: Philobiblon, 1969, no. 1, pp. 3–26
literature
- Hajós, Elisabeth Maria , 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, p. 260f.
- Hajós, Elisabeth Maria , Handbook of Austrian Authors of Jewish Origin, 18th to 20th Century , p. 496
Web links
- Literature by and about Elisabeth Maria Hajós in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Elisabeth Maria Hajós in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Burke's year of death : Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge, 1500-2000 . Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University Press, 2017 ISBN 9781512600384 , p. 195
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hajós, Elisabeth Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian-American art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nyíregyháza |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1982 |