Erwin Kluckhohn

Erwin Kluckhohn (born December 31, 1914 in Göttingen ; † February 6, 1945 in East Prussia ) was a German art historian .

Life

Kluckhohn was the son of Wilhelm Kluckhohn (born 1884) and Elisabeth (Ella) Kluckhohn, born. Blanck (1886–1956) and a grandson of the historian August von Kluckhohn and a nephew of the literary scholar Paul Kluckhohn . He received his doctorate in 1938 at the University of Göttingen under Georg Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt . Kluckhohn had already completed essential parts of his later habilitation thesis during a two-year study visit to Italy, which was initially interrupted by being drafted into the Wehrmacht, but was completed in 1943 after being wounded and taking a one-year hospital or convalescent leave. Kluckhohn had to break off the teaching activity at the University of Göttingen following his habilitation because he was called up for military service as a company commander. Kluckhohn fell in East Prussia in February 1945.

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Kluckhohn's importance lies in the fundamental clarification of the art-historical dependence of Lower Saxon architecture of the 12th century on Northern Italy, based on closer observation of the architectural and capital sculpture, on which all further research on this topic could be based. In particular, the distinction between the two “school-building” key buildings for Lower Saxony - the collegiate church of St. Servatius in Quedlinburg and the imperial cathedral in Königslutter - and the determination of the different origins of their architectural sculptures from specifications in Milan (S.Ambrogio), Como (S.Abbondio ) or Pavia (S.Michele) or Verona (S.Zeno) is his merit.

Fonts

• Tintoretto and Mannerism (academic trial lecture). In: German quarterly journal for literary studies and intellectual history, vol. 23, issue 1, Göttingen 1949, pp. 126–132 ( full text )
• The capital ornamentation of the collegiate church of Königslutter: studies of origin, shape and spread. In: Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft, Vol. 11/12 (1938/39), pp. 527–578, Taf. 1–8, (print version of the Göttingen dissertation 1938) ( full text )
• Shape and history of the Ambrosius Church in Milan (Count Vitzthum on his 60th birthday) . In: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz , Vol. 6, Issue 1/2 (December 1940), pp. 73–97
• Reviews by: Wart Arselan: L'architettura veronese (Verona 1939) . In: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 9, 1940, pp. 112–114 ( full text )
• Reviews of: Paolo Verzone: L'architettura romanica nel Novarese (1935/36) and Paolo Verzone: L'architettura romanica nel Vercellese (1934) . In: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 9, 1940, pp. 115–117 ( full text )
• Una scultura senese inedita. In: L'arte. Rivista di storia dell'arte medievale e moderna, Ser. NS, vol. 12 (1941) pp. 206-216
• The importance of Italy for Romanesque architecture and architectural ornamentation in Germany. (with an afterword by Walter Paatz ) In: Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft, Vol. 16 (1955), pp. 1–120 (part of illustrations - p. 145). Epilogue u. Summary from p. 85. (Print version of the habilitation thesis Göttingen 1943) ( full text ) Online also via Jstor.org .

The Kluckhohn family estate has been part of the “Foundation of the Georg-August University of Göttingen” since 1985.

Individual evidence

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Web links

• Ella Kluckhohn and Walther Blanck donate an estate: promoting art history (PDF file)