Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub

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Emil Stumpp : Portrait GF Hartlaub , lithograph, 1926 ( Kunsthalle Mannheim )

Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub (born March 12, 1884 in Bremen , † April 30, 1963 in Heidelberg ) was a German art historian .

Life

Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub, son of a Bremen merchant family, studied with Franz Wickhoff in Vienna and Heinrich Wölfflin in Berlin until 1910 and then initially worked at the Kunsthalle Bremen as an assistant to Gustav Pauli until Fritz Wichert worked for him at the Kunsthalle Mannheim in 1913 got. Hartlaub became its director in 1923. He was particularly committed to the promotion of contemporary art and especially expressionism and discovered a number of new artists, including a. about Franz Xaver Fuhr . With the exhibition Neue Sachlichkeit, which opened on June 14, 1925 . German painting since Expressionism he coined the term New Objectivity . On March 20, 1933, he was dismissed as part of the National Socialist cultural policy . From 1946 Hartlaub worked as a professor in Heidelberg. Hartlaub was also involved in the field of esoteric approaches in the arts and art education, where he became known in particular for his work The Genius in the Child from 1922.

Hartlaub is the father of the writer Felix Hartlaub (* 1913; missing 1945) and the writer Geno Hartlaub (1915–2007).

literature

  • Meinhold Lurz: Hartlaub, Gustav Friedrich. In: Baden-Württembergische Biographien , Volume 1. 1994, ISBN 978-3-17-012207-9 , p. 129 f. ( E-text at LEO-BW )
  • Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 1: A – K. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 261-266.
  • Stefan Grote: Gustav Radbruch and Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub. A scholarly friendship in dark times. In: Neue Juristische Wochenschrift, (NJW) 11/2016, pp. 755–759.

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personal data
SURNAME Hartlaub, Gustav Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1963
Place of death Heidelberg