Georg Weise (art historian)

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Georg Weise (born February 26, 1888 in Frankfurt am Main , † January 31, 1978 in Sorrento ) was a German art historian who specialized in Spain in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Life

Weise studied history at the University of Tübingen , among others with Johannes Haller . He completed his habilitation in Tübingen in 1914, became an associate professor there in 1920 and a full professor in 1921 as full professor of art and intellectual history of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and successor to Konrad von Lange . In 1932, Weise publicly opposed a lecture by Paul Schultze-Naumburg in Tübingen, which was held on behalf of the Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur . That is why he was temporarily suspended from duty in 1933, but was able to continue his work as a full professor during the Nazi era without becoming a member of the NSDAP . During this time he devoted himself particularly to the Swabian fine arts, especially the Swabian Baroque. In 1954 Georg Weise retired .

During the First World War he undertook excavations in Quierzy and Samoussy , which at that time were only a few kilometers behind the front line. The excavations in Quierzy took place from August 1916 and had to be abandoned in February 1917, when the terrain was left to the French to straighten the front; then he continued his work in Samoussy. During both excavations he found relics of medieval castles, which he identified as the royal palaces of the Carolingians . Although the results of his investigations, which were hastily carried out due to the war, remained controversial, no new excavations have been carried out in these places since then.

From the early 1920s he devoted himself to documenting medieval architecture and sculpture in Germany, France, Spain and Switzerland , which he captured in around 7,000 photographs. The work in Spain in particular is of inestimable value today, as many of the works of art that he captured with around 2500 photos were destroyed a few years later in the Spanish Civil War. The large-format photographs he made were taken over by the German Documentation Center for Art History at the University of Marburg in 1948 and 1969, respectively.

Another part of his photographs is housed in the Georg Weise archive of the Art History Institute of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . Today it is part of the photo collection that is organized in the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT .

Wise's students include Gertrud Otto and Ingrid Kreuzer .

Works

A bibliography can be found in the commemorative publication on his 75th birthday: Contributions to the history of art and intellectual history in the Middle Ages. Festschrift for his 75th birthday on February 26, 1963. Stuttgart 1964, pp. 273–283.

  • Two Franconian royal palaces. Report on the excavations carried out in the Quierzy and Samoussy Falzes . Tübingen 1923.
  • Spanish sculpture from seven centuries. 6 volumes, Reutlingen 1926–1939.
  • Studies on the Spanish architecture of the late Gothic period. Reutlingen 1933.
  • The Eskorial as an artistic expression of the time of Philip II. In: Spanische Forschungen der Görresgesellschaft 5 (1935), pp. 337-360. Republished in Spanish as El Escorial como expresión esencial artística del tiempo de Felipe II y del periodo de la Contrareforma. In: El Escorial, 1563–1963. IV ° Centenario. Vol. 2, Madrid 1963, 273–295, and in Italian in ders .: Il Rinascimento e la sua eredità. Edited by Pompeo Giannantonio, Naples 1969.
  • About the human ideal and the buzzwords of the Gothic and Renaissance periods. In: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 14 (1936), pp. 171–222.
  • The element of the heroic in Counter-Reformation Spanish religious literature. In: Spanische Forschungen der Görresgesellschaft 10 (1955), pp. 161-304.
  • (with Ingrid Kreuzer): The sculpture of the Renaissance and the early Baroque in northern Spain. 2 volumes, Tübingen 1958.
  • The ideal eroico del rinascimento e le sue premesse umanistiche. Vol. 1, Naples 1961; Vol. 2: Diffusione europea e tramonto , Naples 1965.
  • Il mannerism. Bilancio critico del problema stilistico e culturale. Florence 1971.
  • Mannerismo e letteratura. Florence 1976.

literature

  • Nicola Hille: Art history in Tübingen 1933–1945. In: History of Art at Universities during National Socialism. Art and Politics, Yearbook of the Guernica Society, Volume 5. Göttingen 2003, pp. 93–123.
  • Nicola Hille: The art history seminar under the direction of Georg Weise and Hubert Schrade. In: Urban Wiesing, Klaus-Rainer Brintzinger, Bernd Grün, Horst Junginger, Susanne Michl (eds.): The University of Tübingen in National Socialism. Contubernium, Volume 73. Stuttgart 2010, pp. 281-301.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nicola Hille: A controversy in 1932 and its consequences for the Tübingen Institute for Art History. In: Nikola Doll, Christian Fuhrmeister, Michael H. Sprenger (Hrsg.): Art History in National Socialism. Contributions to the history of a science between 1930 and 1950. Accompanying volume to the traveling exhibition Art History under National Socialism . Weimar 2005, pp. 99-115.
  2. ↑ Nicola Hille: The Art History Institute of the University of Tübingen and the appointment of Hubert Schrade as full professor in 1954. In: Martin Papenbrock (Hrsg.): Art history at the universities in the post-war period. Art and Politics, Yearbook of the Guernica Society, Volume 8, Göttingen 2006, pp. 171–194, here especially p. 171 f.
personal data
SURNAME Wise, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1978
Place of death Sorrento