Franz Bock (art historian, 1876)

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Constans Franz Bock (born March 4, 1876 in Herford , † January 15, 1944 in Darmstadt ) was a German art historian .

Live and act

Franz Bock, son of the lawyer Adolf Bock, lived in Bielefeld from 1879 and attended the humanistic grammar school there from 1886 . At Easter 1895 he began studying architecture at the Munich Polytechnic , but in autumn 1895 he switched to studying art history at the University of Munich . He then studied art history at the universities of Heidelberg (summer semester 1896 to winter semester 1896/97), Berlin (summer semester 1897 to winter semester 1897/98) and Göttingen (summer semester 1898) and received his doctorate on November 30, 1899 at the University of Göttingen (date of PhD certificate May 18, 1900). On April 27, 1904, he qualified as a professor for modern art history at the University of Marburg . On June 24, 1909, he was awarded the title of professor, and from 1909 to 1913 he was acting director of the collection for modern art history (= seminar for art history) at the University of Marburg. On October 20, 1913, he became professor of art history at the Royal Academy in Poznan and was its rector from 1917 to 1919.

In 1919 he was expelled by the Poles when the academy was dissolved and on October 1, 1920, he became a lecturer in applied arts, decorative arts, style and cultural history at the Technical University of Berlin ; on April 1, 1921, he became a regular associate there . Professor appointed: In the winter semester of 1941/42 he retired and was honored with the dignity of honorary senator of the TH Berlin. His name appears for the last time in the course catalog for the winter semester of 1943/44.

Publications

  • Memling's youth works. Dissertation. University of Göttingen 1900. Schaub, Düsseldorf 1900.
    • extended print version: Memling studies. Schaub, Düsseldorf 1900
  • The works of Mathias Grünewald. Heitz, Strasbourg 1904.
  • Bismarck in the fine arts. Eulitz, Lissa i. P. 1915.
  • War and culture. East German printing and publishing house, Poznan 1917.
  • The Wiesenkirche in Soest. Lower Saxony Image Archive, Wiesenhausen 1929.
  • The Germanic Gothic. Lehmanns, Munich 1932.

literature

  • Inge Auerbach: Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. Second volume: From 1911 to 1971. Marburg 1979, p. 472.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Darmstadt registry office : death register . No. 104/1944.
personal data
SURNAME Bock, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bock, Constans Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1944
Place of death Darmstadt