Friedrich Haack (art historian)

Friedrich Ludwig Albert Haack (born October 5, 1868 in Berlin , † January 28, 1935 in Erlangen ) was a German art historian .

Friedrich Haack was the son of the lawyer and Berlin city councilor Albert Haack (1832–1906). He studied art history in Munich from 1890 and received his doctorate in 1894. In 1900 he completed his habilitation and became a private lecturer in modern art history at the University of Erlangen , which is where the history of art history began. In 1914 a seminar for modern art history was established there, Haack as associate professor head of the same.

In addition to the Franconian and southern German art of the late Middle Ages and Albrecht Dürer , contemporary art was at the center of his research. By the time he died, he had obtained around 50 doctorates.

Publications (selection)

• The Gothic architecture and sculpture of the city of Landshut . Munich 1894 (dissertation).
• Friedrich Herlin, his life and works (= studies on German art history 26). Heitz, Strasbourg 1900 (habilitation thesis).
• Finds and assumptions about Dürer and the sculpture of his time (= contributions to Franconian art history 6). Blaesing, Erlangen 1916.
• Adam Kraft and Dehiosche art history (= contributions to Franconian art history 9). L. Spindler, Nuremberg 1924.
• Albrecht Dürer, Germany's greatest artist (= science and education 250). Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1928.

literature

• Alfred Wendehorst: The representation of the subject Middle and Modern Art History at the University of Erlangen . In: Musis et litteris. Festschrift for Bernhard Rupprecht on his 65th birthday . Fink, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7705-2859-X , pp. 11-31.