Hans Hildebrandt

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Hans Hildebrandt (born January 29, 1878 in Staufen im Breisgau ; † August 25, 1957 in Stuttgart ) was a German art historian and promoter of modern architecture , art and the Bauhaus .

life and work

Hans Hildebrandt, one of three sons of the magistrate Hermann Hildebrandt and his wife Amalie, née Rahke (daughter of the court book supplier Johann Moritz Rahke), first studied law; then from 1905 in Munich and Heidelberg, including art history . This and the promotion of modern architecture, the artistic design of life and artists, became his life.

Hans Hildebrandt married the painter Lily Uhlmann in 1908 . In 1914 his son Rainer Hildebrandt was born in Stuttgart .

In 1912 he became a private lecturer and in 1920 an associate professor at what was then the Technical University of Stuttgart . After his wife had been banned from painting by the National Socialist rulers in 1933, Hildebrandt's license to teach was revoked in 1937. After the Second World War, he returned to his chair and was retired in 1947 .

Hildebrandt is one of the well-known pioneers of classical modernism. He was a master in dealing with topics and people who, like himself, felt obliged to newer and modern architecture, an artistic perspective and a cultural way of life. Hans Hildebrandt and his analytical instinct for the art and design of buildings as well as his curiosity about the unknown and future developments helped many artists with his publications sooner or later to notice and appreciate their work: Adolf Hölzel , Josef Albers , Hans Arp , Alexander Archipenko , Willi Baumeister , Georges Braque , Marc Chagall , Max Ernst , Hermann Finsterlin , Walter Gropius , Wassily Kandinsky , Paul Klee , Le Corbusier , Fernand Léger , El Lissitzky , László Moholy-Nagy , Piet Mondrian , Pablo Picasso , Oskar Schlemmer , Kurt Schwitters , Marianne von Werefkin ...

The friendship between Hans and Lily Hildebrandt and Walter Gropius , among others, was filled with respect and respect for the person and was also aimed at the development and support of the Bauhaus and classical modernism.

Honors

Fonts

  • War and art. Piper, Munich 1916.
  • Wall painting. Their essence and their laws. German publishing house, Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig 1920.
  • 19th and 20th century art. 1924.
  • Le Corbusier: Upcoming Architecture. Translated and edited by Hans Hildebrandt. German publishing house Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig 1926.
  • The woman as an artist. Mosse, Berlin 1928.
  • Stuttgart ( German Land - German Art ). Berlin 1933
  • HP Schmohl ( Hans Paul Schmohl ). Buildings 1945–50. (= Buildings by German builders ) Kromat, Bremen 1951.

literature

  • Hans Hildebrandt. For the 75th birthday of the art historian
  • Hans Hildebrandt and his group. Graphisches Kabinett, Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Bremen 1978.
  • Lily Hildebrandt: Galerie Schlichtenmaier. Dätzingen Castle in 1988.
  • Lily Hildebrandt: The Hidden Museum. Berlin 1997.
  • Stuttgart unique courier. No. 92 December 2003, News & Reports.
  • Hans Hildebrandt. 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 1: A – K. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 300-305.
  • Katja Nagel: Hans Hildebrandt. In: Norbert Becker, Katja Nagel: Persecution and disenfranchisement at the Technical University of Stuttgart during the Nazi era. Belser, Stuttgart 2017, pp. 277–286.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brigitte Roßbeck, Franz Marc, Die Träume und das Leben, Munich 2015, ill. P. 217
personal data
SURNAME Hildebrandt, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Staufen im Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1957
Place of death Stuttgart