Friedrich Rintelen (art historian)

Grave slab in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery , Basel

Friedrich Rintelen (born February 20, 1881 in Berlin , † May 4, 1926 in Catania ) was a German art historian .

Rintelen studied philosophy and received his doctorate in Munich in 1902 . He then became an assistant at the Art History Institute in Florence . In 1909 he completed his habilitation in Berlin and was appointed professor there in 1912. From 1914 he taught as a full professor for art history at the University of Basel . In the winter semester of 1914/15 Theodor Hetzer did his doctorate with him in Basel. In 1925 he also took over the management of the Kunstmuseum Basel .

His son was the ophthalmologist Friedrich Rintelen (1906–1991).

Publications (selection)

• Leibniz's Relationship to Scholasticism. Dissertation Munich 1902.
  • Print version in: Archive for the History of Philosophy Volume 16, 1903, pp. 157–189, 307–334.
• Titian's portrait of Antonio Anselmi. In: Yearbook of the Royal Prussian Art Collections Volume 26 ISSN  0934-618X , JSTOR 25168603 , 1905, pp. 202–204 (as Fritz Rintelen).
• The altarpiece in the sacristy of St. Peter in Rome. In: Allgemeine Zeitung Munich No. 287, supplement on December 13, 1905, pp. 482-485.
• Giotto and the Giotto apocrypha. Müller, Leipzig 1912 ( warburg.sas.ac.uk PDF ).
• Dante on Cimabue . In: Monthly Issues for Art History Volume 10, 1917, pp. 97–113.
• Speeches and essays . Schwabe, Basel 1927.

literature

• Georg Schmidt: Friedrich Rintelen . In: The work. Architektur und Kunst 13, 1926, pp. 198–204 ( digitized version ).
• Walter Ueberwasser: Friedrich Rintelen. In: Professors from the University of Basel from five centuries. F. Reinhardt, Basel 1960.

Web links

• Friedrich Rintelen in the Dictionary of Art Historians
• Union catalog HAN: Estate of Friedrich Rintelen (1881–1926). aleph.unibas.ch, accessed on October 21, 2017 .