Franz Voigt

This article deals with the art historian Franz Voigt. For the painter see Franz Wilhelm Voigt .

Franz Voigt (born April 27, 1876 in Weimar ; † March 26, 1940 in Kassel ) was a German art historian .

Life

Franz Voigt was the son of the publisher Paul Voigt and his friend Agnes, geb. Handle. After his parents moved, he attended school in Kassel, where he passed the school leaving examination in 1897. For economic reasons, he did not start studying, but instead joined the administration of the Reichsbahn . On February 1, 1926, he was given permanent retirement for health reasons.

He then studied art history in Jena , Munich and Berlin and received his doctorate in Jena in 1930 with Wilhelm Koehler with a dissertation on baroque hunting locks in Thuringia . In 1931 he became the librarian of the state art library and the copper engraving cabinet of the Kassel museums . In the Kupferstichkabinett he succeeded in discovering previously unknown drawings. He wrote articles on Hessian artists for volumes 29 to 32 of the Thieme-Becker artist lexicon . He died of a serious heart condition.

Publications

• The development of the hunting lodge and summer palace of Duke Ernst August von Sachsen-Weimar. A style-critical consideration . Heitz, Strasbourg 1930 (dissertation, with curriculum vitae).
• The Mengeringhäuser Altar . In: Heimat-Schollen 14, 1934, pp. 9-10.
• The development of the hunting and pleasure palace buildings of Duke Ernst August von Sachsen-Weimar. A contribution to the history of Thuringian baroque architecture (= special publications of the Academy of Non-Profit Sciences in Erfurt, issue 12). Stenger, Erfurt 1938.
• The picture gallery Kassel. Guide through the Kassel gallery . Augustin, Kassel 1938.
• A Titian drawing found . In: Die graphischen Künste NF 3, 1938, pp. 17-19 ( digitized version ).
• An unknown drawing by Hans Baldung Grien . In: Die graphischen Künste NF 4, 1939, pp. 1–2 ( digitized version ).
• On Hans Ankwicz-Kleehoven's remarks on Grünewald's age portrait . In: Die graphischen Künste NF 4, 1939, p. 3 ( digitized version ).

literature

• Kurt Luthmer : In memoriam Johannes Boehlau, Eberhard Preime, Franz Voigt . Kassel 1941, pp. 15-16.