Gotthard Jedlicka
Gotthard Jedlicka (born May 6, 1899 in Zurich ; † November 9, 1965 in Duisburg ) was a Swiss art historian and writer .
Life
After studying art history in Zurich, Grenoble and Paris, he first worked as a secondary school teacher in Winterthur . In 1928 he obtained his doctorate and in 1934 his habilitation . From 1939 to 1965 he was professor of art history at the University of Zurich . In addition, he worked as the editor of the magazine Galerie und Collector and the art book series of the Scherz-Verlag as well as editor of the Swiss monthly Werk . He also wrote numerous art books and artist monographs , for example on Toulouse-Lautrec , Manet and Brueghel . His estate is in the Zurich Central Library . He found his final resting place in the Enzenbühl cemetery .
Since 1951 he was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .
Works (selection)
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec . Laupen 1929, DNB 570402107 (Dissertation University of Zurich, Philosophical Faculty I. Section, 1929, 28 pages)
- Henri Matisse . Chronique du jour, Paris 1930, (200 copies)
- Encounters. Artist novels . Schwabe, Basel 1933
- Pieter Bruegel. The painter in his time . Rentsch, Erlenbach 1938
- Edouard Manet . Rentsch, Erlenbach 1941
- Spanish painting . Atlantis Verlag 1941
- On contemporary Swiss painting . Rentsch, Erlenbach 1947
- Pierre Bonnard . A visit . Rentsch, Erlenbach 1949
- Paris diary . Suhrkamp ( Library Suhrkamp 18), Frankfurt am Main 1953
- Sight and experience. Viewing images . Suhrkamp (Library Suhrkamp 29), Frankfurt am Main 1955
- The Matisse Chapel in Vence. Rosary Chapel of the Dominican Sisters . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1955
- Paths to a work of art. Encounters with art and artists . Piper, Munich 1960
- The Fauvism . Gutenberg Book Guild , Zurich 1961
- Max Gubler . Edited by Friedel Jedlicka. Huber, Frauenfeld 1970
- With Henri Matisse in Paris 1931 . Piet Meyer (Small Library 5), Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-905799-04-0
literature
- Eduard Hüttinger , Hans A. Lüthy (Eds.): Gotthard Jedlicka. A memorial . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1974, ISBN 3-280-00686-4
- Hans A. Lüthy: Jedlicka, Gotthard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 383 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Gotthard Jedlicka in the catalog of the German National Library
- Juerg Albrecht: Gotthard Jedlicka. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Jedlicka, Gotthard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss art historian and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1899 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
DATE OF DEATH | November 9, 1965 |
Place of death | Duisburg |