Gerhard Ewald

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Gerhard Ewald (born December 9, 1927 in Strasbourg , † February 7, 1997 in Florence ) was a German art historian .

Life

Ewald received his doctorate in 1956 from the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg with a dissertation on Johann Carl Loth . From 1965 to 1981 he was a curator and most recently deputy director at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart .

He was a long-time employee of Hermann Voss in a project funded by the German Research Foundation to register and photograph wall and ceiling paintings in private palaces of the 17th century in Florence and other places. Voss transferred the work on site to Ewald.

From 1981 to 1991 he was director of the Art History Institute in Florence .

Fonts

  • Johann Carl Loth, 1632–1698 , Amsterdam: Hertzberger 1965
  • as editor: The Century of Tiepolo: Italian paintings of the 18th century from the possession of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart: 23 October 1977 to 12 March 1978 , exhibition catalog, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart 1977
  • Editor with Monika Kopplin: From Mannerism to Baroque: Italian paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from the possession of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart: December 11, 1982 to February 13, 1983 , exhibition catalog, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart 1982
  • with Edeltraut Radich, Rüdiger Klaproth: Alte Meister , Staatsgalerie Stuttgart 1992

literature

  • Luisa Vertova: Gerhard Ewald 1927–1997. In: The Burlington Magazine 139, No. 1132, 1997, pp. 477-478

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of birth according to his dissertation, Viaf . Born after Leo BW in Karlsruhe.
  2. ↑ Kathrin Iselt, special representative of the Führer. The art historian and museum man Hermann Voss (1884–1969), Böhlau, 2010, p. 422


personal data
SURNAME Ewald, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1997
Place of death Florence