Ernst Strauss

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Ernst Strauss (born June 30, 1901 in Mannheim ; died September 27, 1981 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German art historian and piano teacher .

Life

Ernst Strauss was a son of the Mannheim lawyer Sigmund Strauss and Olga Simon. His mother died in 1940, his father was murdered in the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1942 . His younger brother Herbert Stroui was able to flee to England. Strauss attended grammar school in Mannheim and studied art history and classical archeology in Berlin , Freiburg and Munich . In 1927 he was at Wilhelm Pinder in Munich with a dissertation on the late Gothic painting doctorate . He also studied piano with Willy Rehberg in Mannheim.

Strauss volunteered at the Munich museums. He qualified as a professor at Pinder in 1932 on the subject of “Munich architecture and decoration around 1600”. The writing remained unprinted and was lost. Strauss taught as a private lecturer at the University of Munich. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Strauss was stripped of his teaching qualification for racist reasons. He continued his music studies with August Schmid-Lindner in Munich and after his emigration in 1935 with Alfredo Casella at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome . In view of the anti-Semitic race laws in Italy and his imprisonment on the occasion of Hitler's visit to Rome, he emigrated to the USA in 1938 . In 1939 he married the photographer Elisabeth Uhde, who also emigrated; they had a son.

In the USA he made his way as a piano teacher in San Francisco and Burlingame . In 1944 he received US citizenship. In 1949 he returned to Germany and received a teaching position for piano at the Freiburg Music Academy , from 1954 a professorship. The University of Munich did not appoint him again until 1952 as a private lecturer and only in 1954 as an adjunct professor for art history. He resigned teaching at the music academy in 1957 and concentrated on his activities in Munich and his research on art history.

Fonts (selection)

  • Investigations into the coloring in late Gothic German painting (approx. 1460 to approx. 1510) using examples from the Swabian, Franconian and Bavarian schools . Munich 1928. Dissertation Munich 1927
  • Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) . Munich 1954
  • Giotto's thoughts on color . Munich 1972
  • Color history studies of painting since Giotto and other studies . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1972 ISBN 978-3-422-00654-6
    • Lorenz Dittmann (Ed.): Color history studies on painting since Giotto and other studies . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1983

literature

  • Ernst Strauss on his 80th birthday . Catalog for the exhibition of the drawings and temperas by Ernst Strauss. Arnoldi-Livie Gallery, Munich 1981
  • Lorenz Dittmann: Obituary Ernst Strauss (died on Sept. 27, 1981) , in: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 45, 1982, pp. 87-95 ( digitized version ).
  • Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 2: L – Z. KG Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 669-671.
  • Christian Fuhrmeister: Continuity and Blockade , in: Nikola Doll, Ruth Heftrig, Olaf Peters , Ulrich Rehm (eds.): Art history after 1945. Continuity and a new beginning in Germany . Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-412-00406-5 , pp. 21-38.

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personal data
SURNAME Strauss, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strauss, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and piano teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1981
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau