Ernst Cohn-Wiener
Ernst Cohn-Wiener (born Ernst Cohn December 25, 1882 in Tilsit ; died April 13, 1941 in New York ) was a German art historian.
Life
Ernst Cohn went to school in Bromberg and graduated from high school there in 1902. He studied art history in Berlin and Heidelberg. Cohn-Wiener received his doctorate in 1907 at the University of Heidelberg and then taught until 1933 as a lecturer in adult education at the Humboldt Academy , the largest adult education center in Berlin. In 1921 he married Eva Margarete Brasch (* 1891).
Due to his Jewish descent, he was dismissed from his position after the Nazis took power in 1933 and emigrated with his wife to England in 1933 and on to India in 1934, where he worked at the Art Museum in Vadodara and published a catalog of the European pictures available there. For health reasons, he moved to the United States in 1939. He died in New York in 1941 at the age of 59.
Cohn-Wiener's major works, which primarily focused on the arts of Central and East Asia, Islam and Judaism, were written between 1921 and 1930. His work on the history of the development of styles in the was of particular importance for the development of university art history fine arts , which saw several editions in the first quarter of the 20th century and was translated into several languages. Subsequently, the "Third Reich" and the further development of art history made the history of style obsolete as a central art-historical working method, which was mainly subject to iconology - in the eyes of its founder Erwin Panofsky a historical auxiliary science .
The collection of photographs of West Turkestan works of art compiled by Cohn-Wiener is now in the British Museum . His correspondence with Maurice Laserson is kept in the Vienna Library (London).
Fonts (selection)
- The history of the development of styles in the visual arts 2 volumes. Teubner, Leipzig 1910.
- Jewish art: its history from the beginning to the present. Wasservogel, Berlin 1929 (basic summary, especially for antiquity and the Middle Ages).
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. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 101-104 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- Cohn-Wiener, Ernst. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 5: Carmo – Donat. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-22685-3 , pp. 257-263.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ernst Cohn-Wiener in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homepage of the Brasch family
- ↑ http://www.aggarwaloverseas.com/booksDetail.aspx?productID=80981&catId=AGO009&detail=t ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ernst Cohn-Wiener | Archnet. Retrieved May 3, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/104/8472.htm
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cohn-Wiener, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian, publications on Islamic, Jewish and Asian art |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tilsit |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 1941 |
| Place of death | New York City |