Franz Landsberger

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Franz Landsberger (born June 14, 1883 in Katowice ; died March 17, 1964 in Cincinnati , Ohio) was a German-American art historian .

Life

The father, Adolf Landsberger, was a banker and city ​​councilor in Katowice, Upper Silesia . Franz Landsberger passed his matriculation examination at the Maria Magdalenen Gymnasium in Breslau in 1903 (together with the later historian Richard Koebner ) and then studied art history , philosophy and literature at the universities of Berlin , Geneva , Munich and Breslau , where he also received his doctorate in 1907 . After a long stay in Italy and trips through Germany, England and France and after further studies with Heinrich Wölfflin in Berlin , Landsberger completed his habilitation in 1912 in Breslau. In 1910 he married. From this marriage a daughter was born. After his habilitation, Landsberger taught as an associate professor at the University of Breslau until 1933 . During this time, many of his German-language works were published, which show that he has worked in almost all areas of art. Early publications were Wilhelm Tischbein (1908), the St. Gallen Folchart Psalter (1912), Impressionism and Expressionism , already in the 6th edition in 1921, and Vom Wesen der Plastik (1924). After the venia legendi had been withdrawn from him by the National Socialists , he took over the management of the Jewish Museum in Berlin in 1935 . Landsberger was particularly connected to Max Liebermann , whom he honored with the first memorial exhibition in 1936. In addition to the catalog for this exhibition, he also published a selection of Liebermann's letters in 1937. As head of the Jewish Museum, he was in the 1938 Sachsenhausen concentration camp brought, but could leave for Oxford, as he by the local after a few weeks University had received an invitation. In 1939 he was appointed to the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. From then on, he devoted all of his labor to researching Jewish art. With his book History of Jewish Art , which appeared in 1946, and other specialist articles on this subject, he became a recognized authority in this field. After the death of his first wife, he entered into a second marriage there in 1946.

Landsberger was on friendly terms with Rabbi Leo Baeck , the writer Emil Ludwig , the writer Mechtilde Lichnowsky and, until the last years of his life, also with the Jewish painter Ludwig Meidner , who came from Silesia .

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SURNAME Landsberger, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Katowice
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1964
Place of death Cincinnati , Ohio