Fritz Baumgart

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Fritz Baumgart (born November 5, 1902 in Berlin ; † April 28, 1983 there ) was a German art historian .

Life

Fritz Baumgart studied art history, classical archeology, philosophy and history in Munich and Berlin. In 1926 he received a scholarship from the Kaiser Wilhelm Society at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1927 under Adolph Goldschmidt . In 1927 he became second assistant at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, in 1928 first assistant there, and stayed in Rome until 1934. In 1933 he joined the NSDAP and the SA .

In 1934 he completed his habilitation with Paul Clemen in Bonn , where he then worked as a private lecturer. From 1938 he was an associate professor in Jena . From 1940 to 1945 he did military service, a. a. in Paris, in 1944 he was an orderly officer with the military commander in occupied France, General Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel . In 1949 he was initially an associate professor and in 1954 a full professor of art history at the TU Berlin . In 1967 he retired.

Fritz Baumgart died in Berlin in 1983 at the age of 80. His grave is in the Dahlem forest cemetery .

literature

  • Friedrich Mielke (Ed.): Kaleidoskop. Festschrift for Fritz Baumgart on his 75th birthday . Berlin 1977.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 577.