Gertrud Lendorff
Gertrud Valentine Lendorff (born May 13, 1900 in Lausen , † January 26, 1986 in Sigriswil ; resident in Basel ) was a Swiss art historian and writer .
life and work
Gertrud Lendorff, daughter of pastor Ernst Lendorff (1865–1949) and Valentine Stähelin (1876–1965), grew up as the oldest of three siblings. On her father's side she descended from the architect Melchior Berri and the sister of the cultural historian Jacob Burckhardt; her mother came from an old Basel family. She attended the Free Evangelical School and then the trade school in Basel. After graduating from high school in 1925, she studied art history in Paris , Munich and Basel until 1932 . It was with a dissertation on the Italian painter Giovanni Battista Moroni doctorate . Lendorff became known through radio drama episodes, plays and entertainment novels. Her publication 100 years ago about everyday bourgeois life in Basel during the Biedermeier period, she later turned into entertainment novels. As a teenager she wrote children's books and later also detective stories.
In addition, she published art and local historical treatises, such as a comprehensive monograph on Maria Sibylla Merian . In 1966 she published her little story of the Baslerin . In it she put together material on the history of women from older histories, without having carried out her own source research. Her font Basel in the Bund der alten Eidgenossenschaft , which appeared in 1952 in the series Schweizer Heimatbücher , also found dissemination .
Publications (selection)
- The fairy tale game about the lazy schoolboy who wanted to go to fairy tale land 1922
- Giovanni Battista Moroni, the portrait painter from Bergamo (= Swiss contributions to art history. 2, ZDB -ID 2096836-X ). Schönenberger & Gall, Winterthur 1933, (at the same time: Basel, University, dissertation, 1932).
- Basel: Medieval World City Verlag Bern, 1949
- D Mrs. Oberscht 1953
- Remigius and Konstantine 1957
- Fanny and the Colonel 1958
- Lydia, Fanny and Love 1963
- Brief history of the woman from Basel, Basel 1966
- The trip to paradise 1971
Appreciation
Radio Basel Prize 1954
Web links
- Rosmarie Zeller: Lendorff, Gertrud. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Basel Literary Archive
- Gertrud Valentine Lendorff in: Personal Lexicon of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft
- “A hundred years ago” Part 1 1952. Part 2 1954. Part 3 1957. Part 4 1968. Radio play by Gertrud Lendorff, SRF
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historisches Familienlexikon der Schweiz ; https://www.stroux.org/patriz_f/stSn_f/Sn117_r.pdf
- ↑ https://www.ub.unibas.ch/cmsdata/spezialkataloge/bla/lendorff_gertrud.html
- ↑ https://www.ub.unibas.ch/cmsdata/spezialkataloge/bla/lendorff_gertrud.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lendorff, Gertrud |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lendorff, Gertrude; Lendorff, Gertrud Valentine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss art historian and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lausen BL |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1986 |
| Place of death | Sigriswil |