Guido Schoenberger

Guido Leopold Schoenberger (born February 26, 1891 in Frankfurt am Main ; died August 20, 1974 in Queens ) was a German-American art historian .

Life

Guido Schönberger's father Jakob Schönberger was a merchant from Ermreuth , his mother Pauline Mayer came from Germersheim . Schönberger attended the Adlerflychtschule and the Goethe-Gymnasium in Frankfurt and from 1909 studied history and art history in Freiburg im Breisgau and Berlin. He became a soldier in the First World War in 1914 and took his doctoral examination at the University of Freiburg with Georg von Below while on vacation in March 1917 . From 1918 he worked as an assistant at the Art History Institute at Frankfurt University .

Schönberger married Martha Kaufmann in 1923 and they had two children. He completed his habilitation under Rudolf Kautzsch at Frankfurt University in 1926 and was appointed private lecturer .

From 1928 Schönberger had a permanent job as curator of the historical museum . After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he was dismissed for racist reasons, but the dismissal was withdrawn because of his status as a combatant . After the Nuremberg Laws were passed in 1935, Schönberger was dismissed at the turn of the year. From 1936 he found a volunteer job at the Museum of Jewish Antiquities . After the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, Schönberger was imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp and forced to emigrate when he was released.

Schönberger fled with his family to New York in 1939, where he found temporary employment at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and at the Metropolitan Museum . After the end of the war he worked for the restitution organization Jewish Cultural Reconstruction (JCR) and participated in the distribution of the remaining Frankfurt Judaica to the USA and Israel. From 1947 he worked as an adjunct professor for art history at New York University and as a research fellow at the newly founded Jewish Museum in New York.

Fonts (selection)

• The escort system of the imperial city of Frankfurt a. M. in the 14th and 15th centuries . Dissertation Freiburg, 1917
• Contributions to the building history of the Frankfurt Cathedral . Frankfurt a. M .: Historical Museum, 1927
• Bibliography of the scientific publications by Rudolf Kautzsch . Frankfurt a. M .: Frankf. Bibliophile Society, 1928
• The Frankfurt Cathedral of St. Bartholomew / 1. The building in its developmental significance . Koblenz: Rheinische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1929
• with Heinrich Bingemer: Buildings and Landscape in Hesse and Nassau . Frankfurt a. M .: Frankfurter Kunstverein, 1930
• with Hermann Gundersheimer : Frankfurt Hanukkah chandelier in silver and pewter (= note sheet of the Society for Research on Jewish Art Monuments 34). Frankfurt a. M.: Society z. Research into Jewish art monuments, 1937
• The Drawings of Mathis Gothart Nithart, Called Grünewald . New York: Bittner, 1948
• with Stephen Sally Kayser (Ed.): Jewish Ceremonial Art . 1955

literature

• Schoenberger, Guido , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.2. KG Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1047.
• Schoenberger, Guido , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . KG Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 333.
• Schoenberger, Guido , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Art Historians in Exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 2: L – Z. KG Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 621-624.
• Schoenberger, Guido , in: Renate Heuer : Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 19, de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, pp. 102-104.

Web links

• Literature by and about Guido Schoenberger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Guido Schoenberger in the bibliographic database WorldCat