Georg Voss (art historian)

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Georg Voss , mostly Georg Voss , (born September 5, 1854 in Magdeburg , † 1932 ) was a German art historian and monument conservator .

Life

Georg Voss studied art history at the universities of Berlin and Vienna . After receiving his doctorate, he began as a volunteer at the Royal Museums in Berlin in 1882 . In 1885 he completed his habilitation at the Königlich Technische Hochschule zu Berlin , where he taught as a private lecturer in the architecture department (History of Fine Arts in the 19th Century - History of German Art) from the winter semester 1885/86 to the winter semester 1892/93. He also lectured at the Viktorialyceum and the Royal Art School . From 1886 he was an art consultant for the Berlin national newspaper .

From 1899 Voss worked as a curator of the art monuments of Thuringia . When Voss inventoried the Brandenburg monuments in the 1920s , he was assisted by the student Hildebrand Gurlitt .

On June 16, 1913, Voss presented Kaiser Wilhelm II with a minted medal on behalf of the Association for the History of Berlin on the occasion of the latter's 25th anniversary in government. From 1916 to 1919 Voss was the first chairman of the association. Voss was a member of many clubs, u. a. the Art History Society founded by Wilhelm von Bode in 1887 and the Association for Historical Art .

Honors

Publications

  • The decision on the drafts for the Kaiser Wilhelm monument , in: Die Kunst für alle , 5th year, 1889–1890, Munich 1890, pp. 56–58 ( digitized version ).
  • with Oscar Doering (Ed.): Masterpieces of Art from Saxony and Thuringia. Paintings, sculptures, carved altars, medals, book illumination, weaving, embroidery, fine blacksmithing . Baensch Verlag, Magdeburg 1905 ( digitized version ).
  • The soldier king as a patron of the arts , in: Publication series of the Association for the History of Berlin , Issue 50 (= Researched and experienced from old Berlin. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Association for the History of Berlin), Berlin 1917.
  • with Willy Hoppe and Friedrich Solger : Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Königsberg (Neumark) , issue 1-5.1927 / 1928.
  • Various artist biographies in Jul. Meyer's General Artist Lexicon, 1883–1885.
  • Various articles, u. a. in yearbook of the Kgl. Preuss. Art collections , graphic art , art for everyone , art chronicle , applied arts sheet , sheets for architecture and applied arts , north and south , Münchner Allgemeine Zeitung and Kölnische Zeitung

literature

  • Society of Berlin , Volume 1, 1889/90, p. 440.
  • Richard Wrede , Hans von Reinfels (ed.): The spiritual Berlin. An encyclopedia of the spiritual life of Berlin , 1st volume, Berlin 1897, p. #.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lectures in winter semester 1885/86: History of the fine arts in the 19th century and history of the fine arts in France Course catalog .
  2. ^ Course catalog of the TH Berlin, winter semester 1892/93, p. 96 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Meike Hoffmann, Nicola Kuhn: Hitler's art dealer: Hildebrand Gurlitt 1895-1956. The biography . CH Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-69094-5 , S. #.
  4. ^ Commemorative medal of the Association for the History of Berlin to Kaiser Wilhelm II. (Accessed on March 30, 2016)
  5. ↑ List of recipients of the Fidicin Medal (accessed March 30, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Voss, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voss, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH 1932