Gertrud Bing
Gertrud Bing (born June 7, 1892 in Hamburg , † July 3, 1964 in London ) was a German art historian , philosopher and director of the institute.
Life
Since 1921/22, after completing her PhD in philosophy at the University of Hamburg with Ernst Cassirer , she worked for Aby Warburg , whose collected works (1932) she had been editing since his death. Bing helped the Warburg Library in 1933 from the grasp of Nazis to escape to London.
In London she helped fellow emigrants. After Fritz Saxl and Henri Frankfort , she became professor and head of the Warburg Institute , which was incorporated into the University of London in 1944 . 1959 retired. A Warburg biography that Bing had planned for decades remained unfinished due to illness.
Fonts
- Fragments sur Aby Warburg. Documents originaux et leur traduction française. Avant-propos de Carlo Ginzburg . Edited by Philippe Despoix, Martin Treml. Paris 2019.
literature
- Rainer Donandt: Bing, Gertrud . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 7 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-8353-3579-0 , p. 30-32 .
- Ernst Gombrich : Gertrud Bing, 1892–1964. In: Gertrud Bing in Memoriam . The Warburg Institute, London 1965, pp. 1-3.
- Ernst Gombrich: Gertrud Bing in memory. In: Yearbook of the Hamburg Art Collections , Vol. 10 (1965), pp. 7–12.
- Karen Michels (Ed.): Aby Warburg. With Bing in Rome, Naples, Capri and Italy. Karen Michels on the trail of an unusual journey . CORSO, Hamburg 2010. ISBN 978-3-86260-002-1
- Hans-Michael Schäfer: Bing, Gertrud. In: Institute for the History of German Jews (Ed.): Das Jüdische Hamburg - a historical reference work , Göttingen 2006 p. 36 f.
- Laura Tack: The fortune of Gertrud Bing (1892–1964). A fragmented memoir of a phantomlike muse , Leuven: Peeters 2020 (Studies in Iconology; 16), ISBN 978-90-429-4191-5 .
- 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. 56-59.
- Bing, Gertrude , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 110
Web links
- Literature by and about Gertrud Bing in the catalog of the German National Library
- A Biographical Dictionary of Historians, Museum Directors and Scholars of Art ( January 12, 2005 memento on the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bing, Gertrud |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd July 1964 |
| Place of death | London |