Frederick A. Bernett

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Frederick A. Bernett , born as Fritz Alexander Bernstein , (born June 15, 1906 in Charlottenburg , † June 8, 1993 in Larchmont (New York) ) was a German-American antiquarian .

Fritz Bernstein, son of the businessman Benno Bernstein (1872–1956), attended the Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium in Charlottenburg until he graduated from high school in 1924. He then studied law for one semester in Freiburg and then art history and classical archeology in Berlin . In 1931 he received his doctorate there under Leopold Giese . He then volunteered at the Berlin museums from 1931 to 1933. Due to a lack of career prospects for “racial reasons”, he emigrated to Paris in 1933, where he found a job at the Van Oest art publisher. In 1938 he married Ilse Blum (born June 23, 1910 in Berlin; † 2000), daughter of the banker Karl Blum, who had received her doctorate in art history from Hans Kauffmann in Berlin in 1934 . In spring 1941 the two emigrated to the USA. It was here in May 1944 that they founded the FA Bernett Books second-hand bookshop in New York , specializing in art, architecture, archeology and peripheral areas. In 1953 the company headquarters was relocated to Larchmont, New York. The son Peter Bernett joined the company in 1973. In 1996 the company's headquarters were relocated to Boston.

literature

  • Donald C. Dickinson: Dictionary of American Antiquarian Bookdealers . Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. 1998, ISBN 0-313-26675-1 , pp. 17-18 ( Google Books ).
  • Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 1: A – K. KG Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 46-47.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Dissertation The German Palace Construction in the Renaissance (1530-1618). Types and development of his layout . Heitz, Strasbourg 1933.
  2. ↑ Dissertation Andrea Mantegna and the ancient world . Heitz, Strasbourg 1936. See Ulrike Wendland: Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Art Historians in Exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 1: A – K. KG Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 47-48 with curriculum vitae.
personal data
SURNAME Bernett, Frederick A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bernstein, Fritz Alexander (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American antiquarian
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1993
Place of death Larchmont (New York)