Gertrud Richert

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Gertrud Richert (born November 24, 1885 in Groß Strehlitz ; † November 5, 1965 in Berlin-Lankwitz ) was a German Romance scholar , Hispanic , Lusitanist and art historian .

life and work

Gertrud Richert attended schools in Liebau and Stettin , graduated from high school in Gdansk in 1907 and studied Romance and Germanic philology in Berlin, Paris and Heidelberg (state examination in 1912). In 1913 she did her doctorate under Heinrich Morf and Erich Schmidt on The Beginnings of Romance Philology and German Romanticism (Halle a. S. 1914). From 1914 to 1916 she was in school service.

From 1916 she studied art history in Munich. From 1920 to 1934 she stayed in Spain, especially in Barcelona , where she taught German art history from 1933. During this time she also worked on the edition “Spain and Portugal” (1929) of the famous Baedeker travel guide . From 1935 to 1950 (unofficially until her death) she was the successor of Ingeborg Richarz-Simons as advisor for Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay as well as for art history at the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin.

From 1937 to 1944, she gave lectures on Spanish art history at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . From 1948 to 1952 she taught at the University of Education in Berlin , and from 1952 she was lecturer for Spanish and Portuguese at the Free University of Berlin .

In 1942 Gertrud Richert became a corresponding member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and the Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona .

Publications (selection)

  • Medieval painting in Spain. Catalan wall and panel paintings , Berlin 1925 (Spanish: La pintura medieval en España. Pinturas murales y tablas catalanas , Barcelona 1926)
  • Barcelona , Hamburg / Berlin 1927
  • Country and people in Spain , Berlin 1928 (Langenscheidt's handbooks for foreign customers)
  • with Gerhard Pommeranz-Liedtke [1909–1974]: Portugal. Emerging state on the Atlantic , Berlin 1939
  • with Helga Schmidt-Glassner : Portugal , 1942
  • Johann Moritz Rugendas. A German painter in Ibero-America , Munich 1952 (Spanish: Johann Moritz Rugendas. Un pintor alemán en Ibero-América . In: Anales de la Universidad de Chile , 117/118, 1959/1960, pp. 311–353).
  • La correspondencia del pintor alemán Juan Mauricio Rugendas . In: Boletin de la Academia Chilena de la Historia 19, 2, 1952, pp. 137-155; 20, 1, 1953, pp. 157-184; 20, 2, 1953, pp. 183-209; 21, 1 1954, pp. 149-173; 21, 2, 1954, pp. 91-148.
  • with Julio Cortés: Manual de la lengua española , Zurich / KölnWien 1954 (phrasebook)
  • Johann Moritz Rugendas. A 19th century German painter . Berlin 1959

literature

  • Eugenio Pereira Salas: Gertrud Richert . In: Boletín de la Academia Chilena de la Historia 74, 1966, p. 138.
  • Günter Vollmer: Nachlass Richert: Materials on Spanish a. Latin American art and art history . Ibero-American Institute, Berlin 1988 (here pp. 8–11 list of publications).
  • Oliver Gliech: Basic bio-bibliographical data on the speakers and general secretaries of the IAI 1929–1945 . In: Reinhard Liehr, Günther Maihold, Günter Vollmer (eds.): An institute and its general. Wilhelm Faupel and the Ibero-American Institute during the National Socialist era . Frankfurt am Main 2003, pp. 600-602.
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann, "Devoured by the vortex of events". German Romance Studies in the “Third Reich”, 2nd edition, Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 437, 534.

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personal data
SURNAME Richert, Gertrud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist, Hispanic, Lusitanist and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß Strehlitz
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1965
Place of death Berlin