Friedrich Kriegbaum
Friedrich Kriegbaum (born May 15, 1901 in Nuremberg , † September 21, 1943 in Florence ) was a German art historian and expert on the Italian Renaissance . He was the director of the German Art History Institute in Florence.
Life
Kriegbaum studied between 1920 and 1926 in Würzburg , Munich and Berlin , where he received his doctorate under Adolph Goldschmidt in 1926 and habilitated there in 1931 . His other teachers include above all Wilhelm Pinder and Heinrich Wölfflin . From 1935 he was director of the Art History Institute in Florence , where he had previously carried out research on the sculptural successor to Michelangelo by artists such as Bartolomeo Ammanati , Benvenuto Cellini , Vincenzo Danti , Giovanni Bologna (Giambologna) and other sculptors as a scholarship holder . During the war years and from the German occupation of the city of Florence in mid-September 1943 until his death on September 21, 1943, Kriegbaum worked with the German consul Gerhard Wolf to protect the city's works of art. When Adolf Hitler visited in 1941, Kriegbaum led him and Benito Mussolini through the Palazzo Vecchio , the Uffizi and the Vasari Corridor . He enjoyed a great reputation among his Italian colleagues and the population.
On September 21, 1943, when he was visiting his friend, art historian Leo Planiscig , in Via Masaccio 183, Kriegbaum was killed in an Allied bombing raid. He was made an honorary citizen of the city of Florence post mortem.
literature
- Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich : In memoriam Friedrich Kriegbaum , In: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz , 7, 1953/56, pp. 145f.
- David Tutaev: The Consul of Florence. Saving a city. Düsseldorf 1967.
- Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich : Kriegbaum, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 217 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Manfred H. Grieb: Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon p. 184 ( Google Books )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max Planck Institute: History of the Institute ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kriegbaum, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 21, 1943 |
| Place of death | Florence |