Hanna Deinhard

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Hanna Deinhard (born as Johanna Levy September 28, 1912 in Osnabrück ; died July 14, 1984 in Basel ) was a German-Brazilian-American art historian.

Life

Johanna (Hanna) Levy was the second child of Leo and Zilla Levy, their father was a partner in the R. Overmeyer Mechanical Clothes-Laundry Factory. She attended the upper lyceum for senior daughters in Osnabrück and from 1932 studied art history, philosophy and German in Munich. After the seizure of power in 1933, she traveled to Paris on a student trip and, since she was not allowed to continue her studies in Germany because of discrimination against Jews, she enrolled at the Sorbonne . She had a love affair with the much older cellist Fritz Deinhard, who emigrated with her. Levy was born in 1936 with the dissertation “ Henri Wölfflin . Theory. Ses prédécesseurs ” with Charles Lalo and Henri Focillon . In 1937 she gave a lecture on the necessity of an art sociology at the 2nd International Congress for Aesthetics and Art History in Paris .

Levy emigrated to Brazil with her partner in 1937 and quickly learned Portuguese. In 1938 she also brought her parents to Brazil, who moved to Petrópolis . Levy received a teaching position at the Serviço do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (SPHAN) in Rio de Janeiro to train civil servants in general art history and published articles in the institution's magazine. She got by with further teaching assignments, for example in 1946 as professor of modern art and art criticism at the Fundação Getulio Vargas . She has published articles on contemporary Brazilian art in Brazilian magazines, daily newspapers and exhibition catalogs. She made friends with the artist Fayga Ostrower .

In January 1948 they moved to the United States, where they legalized their relationship. Hanna Deinhard received a position as a lecturer at the New School for Social Research in New York in 1948 . She improved on her meager salary with tours of New York museums. In 1956 they moved to Israel, where they learned Hebrew, gave courses and published. Since Fritz Deinhard died immediately, she returned to New York to the New School in 1957. From 1961 to 1965 she also taught as an associate professor at Bard College and had teaching positions from 1965 to her retirement in 1978 and from 1973 a professorship at Queens College in New York.

Her teaching activities focused on European art history from the middle of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. Her book “Meaning and Expression. On the sociology of painting ”with two art-sociological essays appeared in 1967. In Germany, Switzerland and Sweden she took part in debates on contemporary art and gave lectures. After the English translation of “Meaning and Expression” appeared in 1970, she was invited to contribute to North American journals and was invited to conferences in the USA as a speaker. In 1978 she moved to Basel , where she still taught courses at the adult education center.

Fonts (selection)

Dissertation in Paris, printed in Rottweil in 1936
Hanna Levy
  • Henri Wölfflin, Sa théorie. Ses prédécesseurs . Rottweil: M. Rothschild, 1936.
  • Sur la nécessité d'une sociologie de l'art. In: Actes du Deuxième Congrès International d'Esthetique et de Science de l'Art , Paris 1937, pp. 342-345.
  • A propósito de três teorias sobre o barocco. In: Revista do Serviço do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional , N. 5, Rio de Janeiro 1941, pp. 259–284 ( digitized version ; PDF) .
  • A pintura colonial no Rio de Janeiro. In: Revista do Serviço do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional , N. 6, Rio de Janeiro 1942, pp. 7–79 ( digitized version ; PDF) .
  • Modelos Europeos na Pintura Colonial. In: Revista do Serviço do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional , N. 8, Rio de Janeiro 1944, pp. 7-66 ( digitized version ; PDF) .
  • Retratos coloniais. In: Revista do Serviço do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional , N. 9, Rio de Janeiro 1945, pp. 251–290 ( digitized version ; PDF) .
Hanna Deinhard
  • Meaning and expression. On the sociology of painting . Neuwied: Luchterhand 1967.
    • Meaning and expression: toward a sociology of art . Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, 1970 ISBN 978-080-706-664-5 .
  • On modern history painting , in: Neue Rundschau 2, 1967, pp. 298–306.
  • Twentieth-Century Cities and Their Discontents , in: The Journal of Aesthetic Education, vol. 8/2, 1974, pp. 91-96.
  • Reflections on Art History and Sociology of Art , in: Art Journal 35/1, 1975, pp. 29-32.
  • The Work of Art as a Primary Source , in: Gerd Wolandt (Hrsg.): Kunst und Kunstforschung. Contributions to aesthetics . Bonn: Bouvier, 1983, pp. 89-96 ISBN 3-416-01749-8 .

literature

  • Deinhard, Hanna , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical manual of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, p. 112.
  • Irene Below : "That absurd lightness of innovation". Hanna Deinhard's criticism of science, art sociology and art education . In: Ursula Hudson-Wiedenmann, Beate Schmeichel-Falkenberg (Ed.): Crossing borders. Women, Art and Exile , Würzburg 2005 ISBN 3-8260-3147-4 , pp. 151-179.
  • Irene Below , Burcu Dogramaci (ed.): Art and society between cultures: the art historian Hanna Levy-Deinhard in exile and their relevance today . Munich: edition text + kritik, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86916-491-5 , including a brief vita and a list of publications on p. 321 to p. 342.
  • Adriana Sanajotti Nakamuta (Ed.): Hanna Levy no SPHAN. História da arte e patrimônio. IPHAN, Rio de Janeiro 2010, ISBN 978-85-7334-170-6 .
  • Norbert Schneider : On Hanna Deinhard's concept of a “general sociology” of art. In: Art and Politics , Volume 16, 2014, pp. 177–191, ISSN  1439-0205 .

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personal data
SURNAME Deinhard, Hanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Levy, Johanna (maiden name); Levy, Hanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Brazilian-US-American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1984
Place of death Basel