Fritz Nemitz
Fritz Nemitz (born March 29, 1892 in Lauenburg in Pomerania , † September 25, 1968 in Tutzing ) was a German art historian .
Life
He studied art history , German literature and philosophy at the universities of Munich , Prague , Berlin and Rostock . He wrote his dissertation in 1921 under the title Graf Schack as a poet .
After completing his doctorate, he worked from 1922 as a journalist in Berlin for newspapers and magazines. Among other things, he was until 1932 an art critic at the Art Journal by Paul Westheim and in the DVP ready or almost ready Daily Rundschau , which in 1933 was set. For the longest time he worked for the liberal Vossische Zeitung , which was discontinued in 1934. There he was dismissed by the Reich Library for his work for degenerate artists (e.g. Barlach).
He wrote for the Berliner Tageblatt from 1934 to 1938.
As a book author he began with the biographies of Ludwig Richter (1926), Leo von König (1930) and Caspar David Friedrich (1938).
In 1939 he moved to Munich, where things were a little freer, and found a job as a freelance art critic for the Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten . He continued this activity in the successor newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung .
Fritz Nemitz last lived in Tutzing with his wife Marieluise and son Andreas.
Works
- Gottfried Schadow. The drawer. With 12 facsimile reproductions based on originals from the possession of the National Gallery and the Berlin Academy of the Arts. 1937.
- Caspar David Friedrich. The endless landscape. 1938.
- Goya. I've seen it. 1940.
- The art of Russia. Architecture, painting, sculpture. From the 11th to the 19th centuries. 1940.
- Josef Steib. Painter and etcher. 1941.
- German painting of the present. 1948.
- Vincent van Gogh. 1953.
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec : Montmartre. With an introduction by Fritz Nemitz, 1954.
- Immortal Spain. Masterpieces from three centuries. 1954.
- Kaleidoscope of art. Essays on Modern Art. 1963.
Web links
- Literature by and about Fritz Nemitz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Portrait of Fritz Nemitz in the Ewald Mataré collection in the Museum Kurhaus Kleve
Individual evidence
- ^ Fritz Nimitz: Graf Schack as a poet . Diss., Rostock 1921 .
- ↑ Who is who? Volume 11, 1951, p. 454.
- ↑ Marcus M. Payk: The spirit of democracy: intellectual orientation attempts in the features section . R. Oldenburg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2008, p. 45.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nemitz, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lauenburg in Pomerania |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 1968 |
| Place of death | Tutzing |