Ernst Scheyer

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Ernst Scheyer (born July 3, 1900 in Breslau , Province of Silesia ; died December 4, 1985 in Detroit ) was a German-American art historian.

Life

Ernst Scheyer was a son of the wood wholesaler Norbert Scheyer and Martha Beuthner. His father died in 1932, three of his sisters were able to save themselves from the German persecution of Jews to Palestine and the USA, and his mother was a victim of the Holocaust in 1943 .

He attended the Elisabet-Gymnasium in Breslau and was allowed to give the high school speech in Latin. From 1919 he studied philosophy and economics in Breslau and Freiburg im Breisgau and received his doctorate in Freiburg in 1922 with the dissertation National Income and Individual Income in The Career of Theoretical Economics. Alongside and afterwards he studied art history, ethnology and sociology in Heidelberg and Cologne from 1924 to 1926 and received his doctorate in Cologne in 1926 under Albert Erich Brinckmann . In Cologne he was friends with Louise Straus-Ernst . There he worked as a research assistant at the city ​​museum until 1929 .

From 1930 Scheyer worked in Breslau with Erwin Hintze at the Silesian Museum of Applied Arts and Antiquities . He published on the city's art monuments, gave lectures at the State Art Academy and worked on the representative Gerhart Hauptmann exhibition on his 70th birthday in 1932 . He wrote an essay in the magazine "Schlesien" under the title Gerhart Hauptmann and the fine arts as well as captain of the sculptors in the Neue Rundschau .

From 1931 until it was closed in 1932, he had a teaching position at the State Academy for Arts and Crafts in Breslau and was co-editor of the Silesian monthly magazine. After the handover of power to the National Socialists , Scheyer was removed from his position at the Museum of Applied Arts on April 28, 1933 for racist reasons.

Scheyer emigrated to the Netherlands and had occasional art-historical commissions from the art dealer Jacques Goudstikker in Amsterdam . In 1934/35 he stayed in England and in 1936 moved with the concert pianist Evelyne Rodrigues Pereira (1911–2006), who was married that year, to the USA, where he received a position as a research fellow at the Detroit Institute of Arts . From 1938, from 1956 on as a professor, until his retirement in 1971, he taught art history and comparative cultural history at Wayne State University in Detroit. Since 1950 has been the assistant editor of Art Criticism magazine . From 1968 he was an honorary curator at the art institute. Scheyer was the Silesian sign of Landsmannschaft Silesia .

Fonts (selection)

  • Chinoiseries in the silk fabrics of the XVII. and XVIII. Century . Oldenburg i. O., 1928 Cologne, Phil. Diss., 1928
  • with Peter Epstein : Silesian Museum of Applied Arts and Antiquities: Guide and catalog for the collection of old musical instruments . Breslau: Verl. D. Museum, 1932
  • The Cologne braid weaving mill of the Middle Ages . Augsburg: Filser, 1932
  • Baroque painting . Detroit, Mich .: Detroit Inst. Of Arts, 1937
  • Contributions in: Dagobert D. Runes , Harry G. Schrickel (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Arts . New York, NY: Philosophical Library, 1946 http://d-nb.info/99317678X
  • with Robert William Eugen Weil: A Book of German Idioms . London: Methuen, 1957
  • Christoph Nathe and the landscape art of the late 18th century . Würzburg: Verl. Kulturwerk Schlesien, 1958
  • The Breslau Art Academy and Oskar Moll . Würzburg: Holzner, 1961
  • Lyonel Feiniger; Caricature and Fantasy . Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1964
  • Silesian painting of the Biedermeier period . Frankfurt a. M .: Weidlich, 1965
  • Wroclaw - as it was . Foreword by Günther Grundmann . Düsseldorf: Droste, 1969
  • The Shapes of Space: The Art of Mary Wigman and Oskar Schlemmer . New York: Dance Perspectives Foundation, 1970
  • Eugen Spiro, Clara Sachs. Contributions to more recent Silesian art history . Munich: Delp, 1977 ISBN 3-7689-0148-3 .

literature

  • Scheyer, Ernst , 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, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 605-610

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personal data
SURNAME Scheyer, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sceyer, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1985
Place of death Detroit