Fedja Anzelewski

Fedja Erik Allan Anzelewski (also Fedja Anzelewsky ; born March 17, 1919 in Nordhausen ; † May 18, 2010 in Berlin ) was a German art historian .

Life

Fedja Anzelewsky in 1954 at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis subject and Exemplum in the early woodcuts Dürer Dr. phil. PhD. From 1954 he worked for the State Museums in Berlin-Dahlem , where he was assistant at the Kupferstichkabinett from 1957 and curator from 1960. From 1977 to 1984 he was director of the Kupferstichkabinett. As an honorary professor, he taught at the Art History Institute of the Free University of Berlin.

Over the years, he remained loyal to his doctoral thesis, Albrecht Dürer , and published numerous internationally recognized works in the field of Dürer research.

tomb

He is buried in the Evangelical Churchyard Nikolassee .

Publications (selection)

• Miniatures from the Toggenburg Chronicle from 1411. Klein, Baden-Baden 1960.
• Miniatures from German manuscripts. Klein, Baden-Baden 1961.
• (as a new editor of the 7th edition) Friedrich Lippmann : The copper engraving. De Gruyter, Berlin 1963.
• Dürer and his time. Master drawings from the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett. Exhibition catalog. State Museums of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin (-West) 1967.
• Albrecht Dürer. The painterly work. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin (-West) 1971, ISBN 3-87157-040-0 . New edition: Albrecht Dürer. The painterly work. Volume 1: Tafelband. Volume 2: Text volume. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-87157-137-7 .
• Lotte Brand Philip , Fedja Anzelewski: The portrait diptych of Dürer's parents. In: Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, Volume 10, No. 1, 1978-1979, pp. 5-18.
• Dürer. Work and effect. Electa-Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-88448-007-3 .
• Grünewald . The complete work. Ullstein, Frankfurt 1980, ISBN 3-548-36021-1 (= series The great masters of painting ).
• Dürer's studies. Investigations into the iconographic and intellectual history foundations of his works between the two trips to Italy. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin (-West) 1983, ISBN 3-87157-104-0 .
• Dürer between symbolism and natural science. In: Hartmut Boockmann, Bernd Moeller , Karl Stackmann (eds.): Life lessons and world designs in the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern age. Politics - Education - Natural History - Theology. Report on colloquia of the commission to research the culture of the late Middle Ages 1983 to 1987 (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen: philological-historical class. Volume III, No. 179). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989, ISBN 3-525-82463-7 , pp. 267-281.

literature

• Bodo Brinkmann, Hartmut Krohm, Michael Roth (eds.): From Albrecht Dürer's world. Festschrift for Fedja Anzelewsky on his 80th birthday. Brepols, Turnhout 2001, ISBN 2-503-50903-7 .
• Michael Roth: Obituary for Fedja Anzelewsky. In: Journal of the German Association for Art Research , Volume 64, February 2012.
• U. Großmann: Obituary - Fedja Anzelewsky †. In: Circular letter from the Wartburg Society for Research into Castles and Palaces, No. 51, Issue 1, 2011, p. 11.