Erik Forssman

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Erik Forssman

Erik Forssman (born December 27, 1915 in Berlin ; † June 17, 2011 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a Swedish art historian who spent most of his life in Germany.

Life

Forssman was born as the son of the Swedish engineer and aircraft designer Villehad Forssman in Berlin and grew up in Kassel . He worked for the Leipzig art publisher EA Seemann and, in addition to his work, began in Leipzig in 1942 to study art history, German and philosophy. After the war he continued his studies in Sweden. In the first few years he worked as a proofreader at Bermann-Fischer-Verlag in Stockholm . In 1956 he received his doctorate in Stockholm with a dissertation entitled Column and Ornament .

In 1957 Forssman became director of the Anders Zorn Museum in Mora , Sweden. From 1971 to 1984 he was professor for art history at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . In 1972 he was accepted as a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Forssman emerged in science through his research on Andrea Palladio and Palladianism in Europe, on Karl Friedrich Schinkel and on the architectural theories of the Renaissance and Mannerism .

Honors

Works (selection)

  • Dissertation: Column and ornament: Studies on the problem of mannerism in the Nordic column books and master sheets of the 16th and 17th centuries. Almkvist and Wiksell, Stockholm 1956.
  • Anders Zorn : 1860–1920 , catalog for the exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf , 1958.
  • Venice in Art and Art Judgment of the 19th Century. (Acta Univers. Stockholmiensis = Stockholm Studies in History of Art 22). Stockholm 1971.
  • The history of art and trivial art , lecture given on April 27, 1974. Winter, Heidelberg 1975, ISBN 3-533-02405-9 .
  • Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Buildings and building ideas. Schnell & Steiner, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-7954-0824-5 . |
  • Doric, Jonian, Corinthian. Studies on the use of the column orders in architecture from the 16th to 18th centuries. 1961. (Reprint: Vieweg-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1984, ISBN 3-528-08699-8 )
  • Karl Friedrich Schinkel. His buildings today. Photo book with photos by P. Iwers, Harenberg, Dortmund 1990, ISBN 3-88379-597-6 .
  • as editor: Palladio. Work and effect. Rombach Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1997, ISBN 3-7930-0691-3 .
  • Goethe time: About the emergence of the bourgeois understanding of art . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-06249-1 .
  • The Doric style in German architecture. Rombach Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2001, ISBN 3-7930-9296-8 .
  • Simple imitation of nature, manner, style: Goethe's basic concepts of art history. Rombach Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2005, ISBN 3-7930-9424-3 .
  • Art and Architecture in Modern Europe: Selected Articles , edited by Hermann Reidle. Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2005, ISBN 3-487-12804-7 .
  • Noble simplicity, quiet grandeur: Winckelmann's thoughts on the imitation of Greek works in painting and sculpture from 1755. Rombach Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2011, ISBN 978-3-7930-9631-3 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Erik Forssman. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on July 9, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Laudation to Prof. Forssman on the occasion of his 90th birthday , given by Hans W. Hubert on January 13, 2006. Website of the Art History Institute of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. Retrieved July 3, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Forssman, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish art historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 2011
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau