Gerda Panofsky-Soergel

Gerda Panofsky-Soergel (born Gerda Sörgel, born February 9, 1929 in Wiesbaden ) is a German-American art historian .

Gerda Sörgel studied art history, classical archeology and German at the Universities of Cologne (1950–1953; 1956–1957) and Munich (1953–1956). In 1957 she received her doctorate from Hans Kauffmann in Cologne. Then she worked on the art monuments of the Rheinisch-Bergisch district for the Rhenish Office for Monument Preservation . In 1965 she went to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton as a research assistant , where she worked for Millard Meiss until 1966 . In 1966 she married the art historian Erwin Panofsky (1892–1968) in Princeton . After his death, in addition to her own academic work, she devoted herself to maintaining her husband's memory by editing unpublished writings from the estate, including the unprinted post- doctoral thesis on Michelangelo that was found in Munich , as well as new editions of published works. She also presented a biography that extended to her emigration in 1934. She was increasingly critical of the edition of Erwin Panofsky's letters presented by Dieter Wuttke in six volumes and which she had sponsored.

Until 1995 she taught as a professor of art history at Temple University in Philadelphia .

Publications (selection)

• Investigations into the theoretical architectural design from 1450–1550 in Italy . Dissertation Cologne 1958
• The monuments of the Rhineland, Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis , Pädagogischer Verlag Schwann, Düsseldorf 1972, 3 volumes, ISBN 3-508-00187-3
• (Ed.): Erwin Panofsky: Rembrandt und das Judentum (lecture from 1920), in: Jahrbuch der Hamburger Kunstsammlungen 18, 1973, pp. 75-108.
• Michelangelo's "Christ" and his Roman client (= Roman Studies of the Bibliotheca Hertziana Volume 5). Werner, Worms 1991, ISBN 978-3-88462-072-4
• Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin in Germany. Fiction as Facts . Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-447-06118-6
• (Ed.): Erwin Panofsky: The design principles of Michelangelo, especially in their relationship to those of Raphael . From the estate, ed. by Gerda Panofsky. De Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-031038-2
• Erwin Panofsky from ten to thirty and his Jewish roots (publications of the Central Institute for Art History , 41). Dietmar Klinger Verlag, Passau 2017, ISBN 978-3-86328-150-2

Individual evidence

1. ^ Erwin Panofsky, The Design Principles of Michelangelo, especially in their relationship to those of Raphael. From the estate, ed. by Gerda Panofsky. De Gruyter, Berlin 2014.
2. ↑ Gerda Panofsky, Erwin Panofsky from ten to thirty and his Jewish roots (publications of the Central Institute for Art History , 41). Dietmar Klinger Verlag, Passau 2017.
3. ↑ Erwin Panofsky, Korrespondenz 1910-1968, Vol. 1–5, ed. by Dieter Wuttke, editorial assistant Petra Schöner; Dieter Wuttke (with the assistance of Petra Schöner), cumulations. Supplementary volume to the Erwin Panofsky correspondence 1910-1968. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2001-2014.
4. ↑ Cf. Gerda Panofsky, Addenda et Corrigenda, in: Angela Dreßen, Susanne Gramatzki (eds.), Erwin Panofsky. The late years, in: Kunsttexte.de. Journal für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte 2011, 4, pp. 1–60 [www.Kunsttexte.de]; Gerda Panofsky, cumulus or source (s) clouds in the edition sky. To Dieter Wuttke, accumulations. Supplementary volume to the Erwin Panofsky correspondence 1910 to 1968. With the collaboration of Petra Schöner. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2014, in: Kunsttexte.de. Journal für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte 2015, 1, pp. 1–8 with 3 appendices [www.Kunsttexte.de]

Web links

• Gerda S. Panofsky at Temple University
• Entry in the database of the German biography
• Gerda Panofsky in conversation. An expression of bad conscience in faz.net on August 21, 2012