Emil Kaufmann

Emil Kaufmann (born March 28, 1891 in Vienna , † 1953 in Cheyenne, Wyoming ) was an Austrian art and architecture historian.

Life

Emil Kaufmann, son of the businessman Max Kaufmann († 1902), attended the Maximiliansgymnasium in the IX. District up to the Abitur in 1909, when Fritz Saxl was his classmate. From 1909 to 1911 he attended the Export Academy in Vienna. From 1913 to 1920 he studied art history, classical archeology and philosophy in Vienna and Innsbruck, interrupted by illness and participation in the First World War. In 1920 he received his doctorate in Vienna under Max Dvořák . From 1920 to 1938 he earned his living as a bank clerk, but was also active in research, published articles and gave lectures. Due to racial persecution as a Jew, he emigrated to the USA in 1940, with Meyer Schapiro supporting him. First he went to relatives in California, in 1942 he moved to the east coast. He gave lectures at various universities, but could not find a permanent position.

Since his dissertation, his research area has been " revolutionary architecture", a term that he coined.

Publications (selection)

• The designs of the architect Ledoux and the aesthetics of classicism . Dissertation Vienna 1920, partly published as:
  • The architectural theory of French classicism and classicism . In: Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft 44, 1924
  • Architectural designs from the time of the French Revolution . In: Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 64, 1929
  • The city of the architect Ledoux: on the realization of autonomous architecture. In: Kunstwissenschaftlichen Forschungen 2, 1933
• The art of the city of Baden . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1925.
• From Ledoux to Le Corbusier. Origin and Development of Autonomous Architecture . Passer, Vienna 1933.
• Three Revolutionary Architects Boullée, Ledoux and Lequeu . In Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 42, 3, 1952; Pp. 431-564.
• Architecture in the Age of Reason. Baroque and Post-Baroque in England, Italy, and France . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 1955.

literature

• Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 1: A – K. KG Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 360-362.
• Johannes Feichtinger: Science between cultures. Austrian university professors in emigration 1933–1945 . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2001, pp. 408–409. 431.

Web links

• Emil Kaufmann in the Dictionary of Art Historians