Hans Kiener

Hans Kiener (born May 7, 1891 in Eichstätt ; † November 25, 1964 ) was a German art historian .

Kiener was the son of the art teacher Joseph Kiener (1856-1918). He studied art history at the University of Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1921 under Heinrich Wölfflin . After being first a clerkship at the Bavarian State Library went through, it was on January 1, 1924 as a teacher of art history at the State School of Applied Arts in Munich worked since 1933 as a teacher . In 1937 his habilitation at the University of Munich failed , but on April 20, 1939 he was awarded the title of professor. In 1931/32 he was a member of the Bavarian People's Party and joined the NSDAP in 1932, and in 1933 he became a sustaining member of the SS . In October 1945 he was relieved of his duties as professor. During the denazification after the war, he was initially classified in the group of the polluted, after his opposition in 1948 in the group of followers .

Publications (selection)

• Leo von Klenze, architect Ludwig I. 1784–1864 . Dissertation Munich 1921.
• Italian art from the 15th to 18th centuries . Volume 1: The Art of the Early Renaissance in Central Italy . Shepherd, Breslau 1925.
• Munich . General Association for Christian Art, Munich 1928.
• Roman architecture . General Association for Christian Art, Munich 1933.
• The architecture of the German Renaissance . General Association Die Kunst dem Volke , Munich 1934.
• The architecture of German classicism . General Association Die Kunst dem Volke , Munich 1935.
• New German architecture . General Association Die Kunst dem Volke , Munich 1936.
• Art contemplations. Selected essays . Neuer Filser-Verlag, Munich 1937.

literature

• Christian Fuhrmeister: Continuity and blockage . In: Nikola Doll, Ruth Heftrig, Olaf Peters (eds.): Art history after 1945: Continuity and a new beginning in Germany . Böhlau, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-00406-4 , p. 28 note 36.
• Stefan Schweizer: "Giving our worldview a visible expression". National Socialist historical images in historical parades on the "Day of German Art" . Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0107-8 , pp. 276ff.
• Andreas Burmester: The fight for art. Max Doerner and his Reich Institute for Painting Technique . Böhlau, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-50376-5 , p. 784.