Gertrud Kauffmann

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Kauffmann family grave in Ebersbach an der Fils

Gertrud Kauffmann , née Gertrud Gradmann , (born March 11, 1890 in Neuenstein (Hohenlohe) ; † October 7, 1965 in Göppingen ) was a German art historian and author.

Life

Gertrud Gradmann, daughter of the pastor and art historian Eugen Gradmann (1863–1927), attended the girls' grammar school in Stuttgart and graduated from the humanistic grammar school in Cannstatt . She then studied art history and classical archeology in Tübingen , Vienna, Munich and Berlin. In Tübingen it was in 1916 Konrad von Lange with a thesis on the sculptor core Michael doctorate and was the first female doctoral student in art history in Tübingen.

She was married to the teacher and writer Fritz Alexander Kauffmann (1891–1945) and had three children with him (Agathe, Thomas (1924–2012) and Andreas). Since 1933 she lived with her husband in Ebersbach an der Fils .

Gertrud Kauffmann published in 1937 under the pseudonym Gertrud Hörlin (after the great-grandfather Karl Hörlin (1803-1882), pastor in Sindringen and Walheim) the development novel Verena .

Publications (selection)

  • Michael Kern, sculptor . Dissertation Tübingen 1916 ( digitized , with curriculum vitae).
  • The monumental works of the Kern family of sculptors (= studies on German art history, issue 198). Heitz, Strasbourg 1917.
  • Directory of the picture gallery in the Kgl. Museum of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . Bonz, Stuttgart 1917 ( digitized version ).
  • Eugen Gradmann . In: Journal for Württemberg State History 1, 1937, pp. 224–248.
  • Verena . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1937; 12-16 Thousand 1947.
  • The room . Private print October 1947 (reprinted in Fritz Alexander Kauffmann's "Gemach" in Ebersbach . In: Ute Harbusch, Gregor Wittkop (Ed.): Short stay. Forays through literary places . Wallstein Göttingen 2007, pp. 117–120).

literature

  • Karsten Kruschel: Hörlin, Gertrud . In: Lutz Hagerstedt (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon . The 20th century . Volume 19. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, p. 243.

Remarks

  1. ↑ File inspection (= magazine for museums and education 74). Lit, Berlin / Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-99870-5 , p. 149.
personal data
SURNAME Kauffmann, Gertrud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gradmann, Gertrud (maiden name); Gradmann-Kauffmann, Gertrud; Hörlin, Gertrud (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuenstein (Hohenlohe)
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1965
Place of death Goeppingen