Georg Hoeltje

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Georg Hoeltje (born March 16, 1906 in Duisburg , † June 7, 1996 in Hanover ; full name: Georg Heinrich Hoeltje ) was a German art historian , author on the history of architecture and art in the 19th century, especially classicism and the work of Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves - and professor at the Technical University of Hanover .

Life

“ Protest !” - Advertisement against the demolition of the Villa Willmer monument and for a Lower Saxony Monument Protection Act ;
1970 in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung

As the son of the Prussian construction clerk and director of a mechanical engineering company Edmund Hoeltje, who came from Hanover, Hoeltje spent his childhood in Hagen and Essen . In 1924 he began studying art history in Rostock , attended the Technical University of Hanover in 1924/1925 , the University of Munich in 1925 and finally the University of Halle (Saale) in 1926 . There he received his doctorate in 1929 under Paul Frankl with the dissertation Temporal and conceptual delimitation of the late Gothic within the architecture of Germany, France and England.

On April 1, 1929, Hoeltje was assistant for art history at the Technical University of Hanover. There he completed his habilitation in 1932 with a thesis on plans to expand the city of Hanover in the period from the wars of liberation to the introduction of the railroad and became a private lecturer in “19th century art”. In 1939 he was re-qualified at the University of Bonn .

Due to repression by the National Socialists , he emigrated to Brazil in 1939 and worked there as a freelance lecturer until 1954.

In 1954 Hoeltje returned to Hanover at the Technical University and from 1956 worked there as a full professor for the history of architecture and art. From 1957 also teaching positions at the Werkakademie Kassel. In 1971 Hoeltje retired .

Hoeltje was a member of the Koldewey Society , the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft and from 1957 to 1963 chairman of the "Hannoversche Bauhütte" ( Bauhütte to the white sheet ).

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Temporal and conceptual delimitation of the late Gothic within the architecture of Germany, France and England. Weimar 1930.
  • Hanover. (= Deutsche Lande - German Art . ) Berlin 1931.
  • Client and architectural style. Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim and Abbot Suger of St. Denis. Hanover 1956.
  • Contemporary art. 1959.
  • Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves. (with an article about Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves as a civil engineer by Helmut Weber) Steinbock, Hanover 1964.
  • Structural statement - yesterday and today. (Lecture series by the Lower Saxony state government for the promotion of scientific research in Lower Saxony, issue 49). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1973.

literature

  • Catalogus Professorum 1831–1981. Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Hanover. Volume 2, Hanover 1981, p. 119.
  • Institute for the history of architecture and art at the University of Hanover (ed.): Festschrift for Georg Hoeltje. Hanover 1988, especially pp. 11-44, 45 f.
  • Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 1: A – K. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 309-312.
  • Hugo Thielen : Hoeltje, Georg Heinrich. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover . P. 302 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Registration of Georg Hoeltje in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ "Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Art Historians in Exile: Life and Work of Scientists Persecuted and Expelled under National Socialism." P. 309
personal data
SURNAME Hoeltje, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoeltje, Georg Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1996
Place of death Hanover