Gertrude Rosenthal
Gertrude Rosenthal (born May 19, 1906 in Mayen ; died May 8, 1989 in Baltimore ) was a German-American art historian.
Life
Gertrude Rosenthal was the daughter of the banker Daniel Rosenthal and Rosalie Rosenthal. After the early death of their father, the family moved to Cologne, where Rosenthal graduated from high school in 1923. She worked as an office worker in the chemical industry and from 1925 to 1927 as an assistant in the book room in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum . From 1925 she wrote articles for the Kölnische Zeitung . In 1927 she began to study art history in Paris, Cologne and Bonn and received her doctorate in Cologne in 1931 with a dissertation on sculpture in the 18th century under Albert Erich Brinckmann .
After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, she was no longer allowed to write for the newspaper and could only work as an organizer in the Jewish Cultural Association and was the editor of its newsletter in Cologne. After her mother's death, she applied for a visa for Great Britain and emigrated in 1938. In London, she worked as a library assistant at the Courtauld Institute of Art . In 1940 she went to the United States and got a job in the library of Goucher College in Towson . From 1945 to 1968, Rosenthal worked as a curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art and organized popular exhibitions, and she remained connected to the museum afterwards.
Rosenthal has lectured at Johns Hopkins University and was a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts . She received an honorary doctorate from Goucher College and the Maryland Institute College of Art .
Fonts
- French sculpture under the influence of Roman baroque sculpture at the turn of the 18th century . Cologne: M. Welzel, 1933
- (Ed.): From El Greco to Pollock: early and late works by european and american artists . Baltimore, Md .: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1968 ISBN 0-8212-1207-9
literature
- Rosenthal, Gertrude , 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, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , p. 575f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gertrude Rosenthal in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- John Russell: Gertrude Rosenthal, a Curator, Dies at 85 , New York Times, May 11, 1989
Individual evidence
- ↑ Trude Rosenthal (ed.): Communications. Jüdischer Kulturbund Rhein-Ruhr , in the archive of the Leo Baeck Institute, evidence at WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rosenthal, Gertrude |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mayen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1989 |
| Place of death | Baltimore |