Gertrude Coor Achenbach
Gertrude Coor Achenbach (born September 2, 1915 in Frankfurt am Main ; died September 9, 1962 in Princeton , New Jersey ) was a German-American art historian.
Life
Gertrude Achenbach was the daughter of a Frankfurt lawyer and a painter and concert pianist. She attended school in Frankfurt and followed in 1934/35 a stay at Wells College, Aurora, NY. Back in Germany, she was not allowed to continue studying as a Jew. Achenbach evaded to Perugia and went from there to England and from there in 1938 to the USA, where she continued to study at Bryn Mawr College until 1940 . From 1945 she worked in phases on the Index of Christian Art initiated at Princeton University by Charles Rufus Morey . In 1946 she married the doctor Thomas Coor. With Richard Offner at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University , she received her doctorate in 1948 with a thesis on Coppo di Marcovaldo .
Coor Achenbach worked as a freelance art historian and took up teaching positions at Rutgers University , and from 1959 she then held a position as a research associate at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. For Millard Meiss she prepared a work on book illumination in the time of Jean de Berry .
Fonts (selection)
- A Visual Basis for the Documents Relating to Coppo di Marcovaldo and his Son Salerno . Art bulletin. 28 (4), 1946
- Coppo di Marcovaldo: His art in relation to the art of his time . Marsyas Studies in the History of Art. 5: 1, 1948
- Neroccio de 'Landi, 1447-1500 . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961
literature
- Coor, Gertrude Achenbach , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Art Historians in Exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, pp. 105-107
- Rensselaer W. Lee: Gertrude Achenbach Coor, 1915–1962 . Art Journal, 1963, No. 4, p. 246
- Mrs. Thomas Coor, Art Historian, 47 . Obituary, New York Times, September 10, 1962
Web links
- Literature by and about Gertrude Coor Achenbach in the catalog of the German National Library
- Coor, Gertrude Marianne Achenbach née Achenbach , at arthistorians
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Coor Achenbach, Gertrude |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Achenbach, Gertrude (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 1962 |
| Place of death | Princeton, New Jersey |