Georg Vitzthum von Eckstädt

The title of this article is ambiguous. On the Electoral Saxon Secret Council and Appellation Council see Georg Vitzthum von Eckstedt .

Bertold Georg Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt , also Georg Graf Vitzthum (born May 14, 1880 in Oberlößnitz , † December 16, 1945 in Göttingen ) was a German art historian .

Life

Georg Graf Vitzthum comes from the Thuringian noble family Vitzthum von Eckstädt . His father, Ernst Bernhard Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt, moved from Oschatz in 1879 , where he had been Colonel of the Oschatz Uhlan Regiment before leaving the military , to Oberlößnitz in the Rudell house, where Georg was born in 1880. Georg's mother was the widowed Countess Helene von Wallwitz, née Edle von der Planitz, chief stewardess of the Saxon Crown Princess Carola .

Georg attended the University of Leipzig , where he received his doctorate in 1903 with a thesis on Bernardo Daddi (active around 1320 to 1348). He then worked as a volunteer at the Royal Museums in Berlin , where he received significant support from General Director Wilhelm von Bode . In Leipzig he completed his habilitation in 1907 with the work The Rhenish Painting at the beginning of the 14th century examined for its sources and in the same year became a private lecturer at Leipzig University.

In 1912 he took over - as the successor to Carl Neumann - the professorship for art history at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . At the same time, Georg Graf Vitzthum was elected chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein Art Association. Among his students there was the future art historian Herbert von Eine (1905–1983). In 1920 he received a professorship at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , which he held until his early retirement in 1940. Georg Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt gave remarkable lectures on medieval art, but also on Renaissance painting, Baroque architecture, Dutch painting of the 17th century, Rubens and painting of the Romantic period. However, since his participation in World War I, he suffered from a nervous condition that increasingly hindered him in his research work.

From 1921 to 1941 he was a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

His students include Klaus Berger , Erwin Kluckhohn , Herbert von Eine and Hans Gerhard Evers .

Works (selection)

• Vitzthum von Eckstädt, Georg Graf: Bernardo Daddi. Phil. Diss. Leipzig 1903
• Vitzthum von Eckstädt, Georg Graf: The Paris miniature painting. 1907
• Vitzthum, Georg Graf: Georg Dehio. Berlin: Weidmann, 1932
• Vitzthum, Georg Graf: Albrecht Dürer. Göttingen: L. Hofer, 1928
• Vitzthum, Georg Graf: The high altar of the Jakobikirche in Göttingen. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1927
• Vitzthum, Georg Graf: Christian art in the picture. Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer, 1925, 2nd edition, 11. – 20. Thousand
• Vitzthum, Georg Graf; Volbach, Wolfgang Fritz: Painting and sculpture of the Middle Ages. Part 1: The painting and sculpture of the Middle Ages in Italy. 1925

literature

• Andrea Brand: Georg Graf Vitzthum (1880–1945). "Instructions for enjoying the works of art ...". In: Hans-Dieter Nägelke (ed.): Art history in Kiel. 100 years of the Art History Institute of Christian Albrechts University, 1893–1993. Art History Institute of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel 1994, ISBN 3-928794-11-6 , pp. 35–37.

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Vitzthum von Eckstädt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Overview of the courses taught by Georg Vitzthum von Eckstädt at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1907 to winter semester 1911)
• Georg Vitzthum von Eckstädt in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Andrea Brand: Georg Graf Vitzthum and the "Instructions for enjoying works of art ..." (uni-kiel.de)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt - Deputy and namesake ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Lilli Martius : 125 Years of the Schleswig-Holstein Art Association 1843−1968. Published by the Schleswig-Holstein Art Association. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1968, p. 69.
3. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 247.