Emil Schaeffer

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Emil Schaeffer (born September 30, 1874 in Bielitz , Austria-Hungary ; died 1944 ) was an Austrian art historian, publicist and playwright.

Life

Emil Schaeffer was the son of the cloth manufacturer Victor Schaeffer (1844-1919) and his wife Margarethe. He attended the KK Staats-Obergymnasium in Bielitz, which he left with the certificate of maturity in 1893. He then studied art history as well as history and classical archeology at the universities of Berlin , Vienna and Breslau . He received his doctorate in 1898 at the University of Breslau with his dissertation The Woman in Venetian Painting , and he dedicated the richly illustrated book edition to Richard Muther . In 1908 he married the singer Olga Mauksch (1887–1982), later married as Olga Eisner , they had two daughters, the marriage was divorced in 1922. Schaeffer was friends with André Jolles until the end of the 1920s , who then proved to be an anti-Semite during the Nazi era . Schaeffer was the editor and editor of a large number of art history books. He was the initiator and editor of the show books published by Orell Füssli Verlag in Switzerland from 1929 to 1932 , in which series, among other things, The male body, contemporary dancers, Goethe and Goethe sites and in 1931 a photo book about the Vilna ghetto appeared. Schaeffer took care of the selection of the 273 photographs when the Alfred Kröner Verlag published Jacob Burckhardt's Italian travel guide Der Cicerone in a pocket edition .

When Schaeffer was supposed to be deported as a Jew to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 , he committed suicide .

Fonts (selection)

Schaubücher 3 Technical Beauty (1929)
  • The woman in Venetian painting. One try. F. Bruckmann, Munich 1899 (dissertation, scan  - Internet Archive ).
  • The Florentine Portrait. F. Bruckmann, Munich 1904.
  • Van Dyck. The master's painting. German publishing company, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1909.
  • with Lothar Schmidt : Christiane: A game in 3 acts from the time of Goethe. G. Müller, Munich 1914.
  • (Ed.): Goethe's external appearance: literary and artistic documents of his contemporaries. Insel, Leipzig 1914.
  • About images and people of the Renaissance. Bard, Berlin 1914.
  • Machiavelli's thoughts. Selected and translated by Emil Schaeffer. Insel, Leipzig 1918.
  • Sandro Botticelli: A profile. With 80 plates based on paintings by Botticelli in high-speed copper printing and 8 plates based on his hand drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy in collotype. J. Bard, Berlin 1921.
  • (Ed.): Life of Benvenuto Cellini written by himself. Translation by Goethe. Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, Frankfurt a. M. 1924.
  • (Ed.): Alfred von Reumont : Frauenschicksale in der Renaissance. W. Jess, Dresden 1927.
  • Raphael's Sistine Madonna as an experience for posterity. W. Jess, Dresden 1927.
  • (Ed.): Johannes Voigt : German court life at the time of the Reformation. W. Jess, Dresden 1927.
  • Bismarck as a warner and prophet. A compilation by Emil Schaeffer. W. Jess, Dresden 1932.
  • Hermann Hubacher. 48 panels with an introduction by Emil Schaeffer. Schwabe, Basel 1935.
  • (Ed.): Schaubücher. Book series with approx. 40 individual volumes. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1929 to 1932.

literature

  • Roland Jaeger: In contrast to the reader. The “Schaubücher” series from Orell Füssli Verlag, Zurich. In: Manfred Heiting, Roland Jaeger (Hrsg.): Autopsy. German-language photo books 1918 to 1945. Volume 1. Steidl, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86930-412-0 , pp. 316–331.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dorfstrasse in Worpswede (1897) In: modersohn-museum.de, accessed on April 8, 2020 (on the provenance: The picture by Otto Modersohn was successively owned by Victor Schaeffer, Emil Schaeffer and Olga Eisner).
  2. ↑ Sara Janina Lengowski:  Olga Eisner in persecuted lexicon musicians of the Nazi period (LexM).
  3. ↑ Walter Thys (Ed.): André Jolles (1874-1946) - "Educated Vagant". Letters and documents. Amsterdam University Press / Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2001, ISBN 3-934565-11-5 , p. 315 Note 4.
personal data
SURNAME Schaeffer, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielitz , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 1944