Erna Mandowsky

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Erna Mandowsky (born November 19, 1906 in Hamburg ; died 2003 in Seattle ) was a German-British art historian.

Life

Erna Mandowsky was a daughter of the Hamburg pharmacist Max Mandowsky and Paula Wienskowitz. Her father died humiliated and disenfranchised in 1938. Her mother and sister Annelise were deported to occupied Riga in 1941, where they were victims of the Holocaust . Sister Charlotte worked as a doctor in Vienna when Austria was annexed in 1938 and died under the pressure of persecution in 1941. Her husband Simon Hochberger managed to escape to England.

Mandowsky attended the St. Johannis Abbey School and the Lichtwark School . From 1926 onwards she studied art history, archeology and historical auxiliary sciences in Hamburg, Munich and Paris. For her dissertation "Investigations into the Iconology of Cesare Ripa ", supervised by Fritz Saxl , she stayed in Italy in 1932/33. She had the Rigorosum in 1934 in Hamburg with the National Socialist Werner Burmeister, who was appointed director of the institute after the transfer of power to the National Socialists . As a non-Aryan she had no career prospects and emigrated to England.

In order to find a livelihood for immigrants despite the work ban, she continued her education in photography, but was unemployed for a long time and kept her head above water with private lessons The exchange of information between the Allies filmed, later at the CMLB, which filmed medical magazines. This work she carried out until 1948, when she received a scholarship from the American Association of University Women for a year-long research stay in the Fiorentine Medici Collection. She became a British citizen in 1948 and a US citizen in 1967.

From 1949 she gave courses in art history at the Universities of London and Oxford, and in 1953 she was invited to a visiting professorship at Swedish universities. Together with Charles Mitchell, she published the first major publication in 1963 on Pirro Ligorio , a collector of iconological images from antiquity and the Middle Ages. In 1967 she moved to the USA, where she worked as a visiting professor at Dickinson College in Carlisle in 1967/68 and as an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma in Norman from 1968 to 1972 . In 1973 she worked in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Mandowsky taught Italian Renaissance art, Mannerism and Baroque, but preferably European 20th century art. She stuck to the Pacific and from then on lived in Seattle .

Fonts (selection)

  • An iconographic contribution to Martino da Udine's copper engraving “Trinfo della Luna” . In: Festschrift for Walter Friedlaender on his 60th birthday March 10, 1933 . 1933 ms.
  • Studies on the iconology of Cesare Ripa . Dissertation. Private print, Hamburg, 1934.
  • The Origin of the Milky Way in the National Gallery . The Burlington Magazine, February 1938, pp. 88-93
  • Ricerche intorno all Iconologia di Cesare Ripa ' . La Bibliofilia, XLI, Volumes 1-2, 3, 5-6, 7-8, Florence, 1939
  • Reynolds' conceptions of Truth . The Burlington Magazine, December, 1940, pp. 195-201
  • Two Menelaos and Patroclus replicas in Florence and Joshua Reynolds 'contribution' . The Art Bulletin, June, 1946, pp. 115-118
  • The Bust of the 'Dying Alexander' . The Burlington Magazine, August, 1950, pp. 231-232
  • Review: H. Gernsheim, 'Focus in Architecture and Sculpture' . The Burlington Magazine, December, 1950
  • Some notes on the early history of the Medicean Niobides . Gazette des Beaux-Arts, April 41, 1953, pp. 251-264
  • Review: V. Fürst and LD'Arcy, “Versailles” . The Burlington Magazine, May, 1953
  • Some observations on Pyrrho Liogorio's drawings of Roman Monuments in Cod. B. XIII. 7 at Naples . Rendiconti della Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archaelogia, XXVIII, 1952-54, pp. 335-358 ZDB -ID 203801-8
  • An unknown drawing for Cavalieri's Antiquarum Statuarum Urbis Romae . Gazette des Beaux-Arts, No. 45, 1955, pp. 313-320
  • Mangudens triumphant . Symbolister, I, Tidskrift för konstvetenskap, XXX, Alhems Förlag, Malmö, 1957
  • Pirro Ligorio's illustrations to Aesop's Fables . Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, XXIV, 3-4, 1961, pp. 327-331
  • with Charles Mitchell (ed.): Pirro Ligorio's Roman Antiquities. The Drawings in MS XIII. B. 7 in the National Library in Naples . Warburg Institute, London 1963
  • (Ed.): Introduction to Re-Print of Cesare Ripa's Iconologia, Roma, 1603 . Georg Olms, Hildesheim, 1970
  • Old Master Drawings . Seattle Art Museum Collection Guide. The Seattle Art Museum. 1980

literature

  • Mandowsky, Erna , 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. 420f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frauke stone houses: Paula Mandowsky (born Vienna Kowitz) * 1880 , with stumbling blocks in Hamburg
  2. ^ Charles Mitchell , at DNB
personal data
SURNAME Mandowsky, Erna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British art historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 2003
Place of death Seattle