Ernst Wilhelm Bredt

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Ernst Wilhelm Bredt (born May 4, 1869 in Leipzig , † December 2, 1938 in Percha near Starnberg ) was a German art historian .

Life

Ernst Wilhelm Bredt was a son of the Leipzig book dealer and publisher Ernst Bredt (1829–1882) and his wife Lydia, nee. Wetschky (1824-1877). His older brothers were the oriental painter Ferdinand Max Bredt (1860–1921) and the bookseller and publisher Wilhelm Heinrich Bredt (1861–1933). On his father's side, he came from the Carnap family , a merchant and councilor family in Barmen and Elberfeld, and was a great-grandson of Elberfeld's mayor Peter Wilhelm von Carnap .

After attending secondary school, he learned his father's profession and then spent a few years in Switzerland, London, New York and Paris for further training. Back in Germany he took a humanistic grammar school course and in 1896 received the final examination at the Kreuzgymnasium in Dresden. He then studied philology for two semesters at the University of Munich, first in Freiburg and then switched to art history with Wilhelm Heinrich von Riehl , Berthold Riehl and Adolf Furtwängler, among others . In 1900 he was with Berthold Riehl with the dissertation The handwriting jewelry Augsburg in the XV. PhD in the 19th century .

Bredt initially volunteered at the graphic collection in Munich in 1899/1900 , then from 1901 to 1904 as a scientific assistant, later as an assistant at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg . B. the "Catalog of the medieval miniatures of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum". From the end of 1904 he worked at the graphic collection in Munich as a scientific assistant, from 1912 as a conservator , from 1914 with the title of royal Bavarian professor and in recent years as chief conservator . In 1934 he retired. He was also a lecturer in art history at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich from 1906 to 1917 . Bredt was a member of the German Museum Association .

Bredt was the author of numerous art history books. In addition, he wrote several articles for art magazines such as Die Kunst für alle and German art and decoration . He was the author and editor of a series of books on world literature published by Hugo Schmidt Verlag in Munich . Special series of art courses . He was also the editor of a series of booklets published by Otto Maier in Ravensburg in 1913/14: The World of Artists - Groups of Artistic Representation .

Fonts (selection)

author

editor

  • The world of artists - groups of artistic representation . Issue series published by Otto Maier, Ravensburg 1913/14:
    Volume 1: The Madonna with angels making music ; Volume 2: Albrecht Dürer ; Volume 3: Hercules ( archive.org ); Volume 4: Cupids and Putti .
  • Quevedo's Whimsical Dreams. Changes made by Curt Moreck with the 61 drawings by Leonard Bramer . Based on the originals in the graphic collection of the Bavarian State, Munich 1919.
  • Adolf Menzel : hiking book. with 60 illustrations and a selection of letters and stories; elected and provided with an introduction by EW Bredt. Hugo Schmidt, Munich 1920.
  • Life and Adventure of Lazarillo of Tormes . With the previously unpublished 73 drawings by Leonard Bramer, Munich 1920.
  • Ovid - "The gods metamorphoses". (= Picture treasure for world literature, Volume 3), Hugo Schmidt, Munich 1920.
  • Alfred Kubin (= picture treasure for world literature. Volume 1), Hugo Schmidt, Munich 1922.
  • Rembrandt Bible. Four volumes with 270 illustrations. (= Picture treasure for world literature. Volumes 4–7), Hugo Schmidt, Munich 1921
    (Volume 1 archive.org ); (Volume 2 archive.org ); (Volume 3 archive.org ); (Volume 4 archive.org ).
  • Faust and Goethe. Two parts in one volume with 120 illustrations by older and new masters (= picture treasure for world literature volume 8), Hugo Schmidt, Munich 1923 ( digitized HAAB Weimar ).
  • Leonard Bramer's drawings for Tyl Ulenspiegel. Hiersemann, Leipzig 1924.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogy of the Carnap and Bredt families in: Langenberger Kulturlexikon. P. 1003 (PDF).
  2. ↑ The title of professor was awarded: In: Kunst für alle , 29, 1913/14, p. 240 ( digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library ).
  3. ^ Deutscher Museumsbund: ( Memento from March 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Directory of members 1920.
  4. ^ Ernst Wilhelm Bredt: The desire for pictures (pp. 99-107); Is stagnation an ideal? (Pp. 239-243); Old or new collecting? (P. 372–376) In: German art and decoration. Vol. 30, 1912 (cited as examples; digitized version of Heidelberg University Library ).
  5. ↑ ZDB -ID 25144406
  6. ↑ Proof in the GBV
personal data
SURNAME Bredt, Ernst Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bredt, Ernst Willy; Bredt, E. Wilhelm; Bredt, EW
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1938
Place of death Percha near Starnberg