Franz Adolf Philipp

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Franz Philipp (born March 29, 1914 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died May 30, 1970 in London ) was an Australian art historian.

Life

Franz Adolf Philipp was a son of the Viennese merchant Edmund Philipp and Karoline Selinko, who came from the Hungarian part of the empire, she was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp . He had two brothers and a sister who all attended the Döbling Federal High School. Philipp started studying art history at the University of Vienna in 1933 and studied with Julius von Schlosser , among others, and also heard from the anti-Semite Hans Sedlmayr . In 1937 he began work on his dissertation entitled The Mannerist Portrait in Northern Italy . After the annexation of Austria in March 1938, Philipp was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp on November 15, 1938 as part of the November pogroms . After his release he was able to escape to England in June 1939.

Philip worked in England as a farm laborer in Yorkshire and was interned as an Enemy Alien in 1940 and shipped to Australia. There he was detained in the Hay , New South Wales, and Tatura and Shepparton , Victoria internment camps. In Hay he gave lessons in art history for his fellow inmates.

After his release in February 1942, Philipp became a soldier of the Australian Military Forces and was stationed with the utilities in Melbourne.He was released in February 1946 and received British citizenship that year and Australian citizenship after 1949 .

Philipp was able to enroll as a student at the University of Melbourne in 1943 and did a BA Hons in 1946 . He then became a tutor at Max Crawford . In 1948 he married the teacher June Margaret Rowley (born 1926), they had two children. Philipp became a lecturer at the university's art institute in 1950, senior lecturer in 1954 and reader in 1964. In 1955/56 Philipp was a fellow at the Warburg Institute in London, and in 1963 he received a travel grant from the Carnegie Corporation for the USA.

Philip taught the art of the Renaissance and did research on the contemporary Australian painter Arthur Boyd . He has published in the journals Meanjin , Australian Historical Studies and in the Art Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria, edited by the German émigré Ursula Hoff . There Hoff wrote an obituary for Philipp in 1970. In 1964 he published a commemorative publication for Daryl Lindsay with June Stewart .

Philipp was on a sabbatical in London when he died of a heart attack in 1970.

Fonts (selection)

  • with June Stewart: In honor of Daryl Lindsay. Essays and studies . Melbourne: OUP, 1964
  • An afterthought to Blake's Antaeus , in: Annual bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne , 7, 1965, p. 25
  • Arthur Boyd . London: Thames & Hudson, 1967

literature

  • Franz Philipp , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical manual of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, p. 518f.
  • Ursula Hoff : In memory of Franz Adolf Philipp , in: Art Bulletin of Victoria , 12, 1970/71, p. 30 ( digitized version )
  • Patrick McCaughey : Franz Philipp - a tribute , in: Art and Australia , 8 1970, p. 218
  • Sheridan Palmer: Center of the Periphery: Three European Art Historians in Melbourne . Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz (Adolf) Philipp did not have his middle name, it hardly appears in the literature either, only in the ADB, it is mainly used here for lemma formation, as there are namesakes.
  2. ↑ on Australian citizenship law see for the time being: Australian nationality law in the English Wikipedia
  3. ^ Australian Historical Studies , website
personal data
SURNAME Philipp, Franz Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philipp, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian art historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1970
Place of death London