Hans Mackowsky

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Gravestone at the Bornstedt cemetery in Potsdam

Hans Mackowsky (born November 19, 1871 in Berlin , † July 18, 1938 in Potsdam ) was a German art historian .

Life

Hans Mackowsky studied art history in Berlin and Freiburg and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1893. From 1896 to 1900 he was a research assistant at the Berlin Gemäldegalerie . He then stayed in Florence for two years to study and then lived as a private scholar in Berlin. From 1905 Mackowsky was an author at the art magazine Kunst und Künstler in the publishing house of Bruno Cassirer and from 1908 as a lecturer at the Humboldt Academy and the Lessing University in Berlin . In 1909 he received the title of professor. In 1912 he became director of the Rauch Museum in the National Gallery in Berlin. It was located on Klosterstrasse and, from the early 1930s, in the orangery wing of Charlottenburg Palace . In 1914 he became assistant director at the Nationalgalerie, from 1916 he worked there as curator . His research focus was the life's work of the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow . Mackowsky made a name for himself as the author and editor of numerous books on important artists from the 18th to the 20th century and as a Berliner Cicerone .

Karl Scheffler wrote in his memoirs of Mackowsky in 1946:

“He was the best connoisseur of old Berlin, but he did not find it easy to write because of all the studies. For years he could hunt for a single historical fact that he still lacked; he preferred to abandon almost finished works rather than publish them without these last nuances. In everything he made life difficult for himself and thus also made it difficult for the editorial team. But what he gave was as reliable as pure gold. At all times he was an employee whose contributions were like gifts, but who wanted to be treated with the utmost care, because he had the peculiarity of many physically small men: they become aggressive because of defensiveness. This was his Menzel train. "

- Karl Scheffler

Mackowsky was a victim of the Nuremberg Laws during the National Socialist era because of his descent . Wolf Jobst Siedler remembered in 2004 that he "came to a sad and lonely end in 1938 because he was a Jew". Hans Mackowsky died on July 18, 1938 in Potsdam and was buried in the Bornstedter Friedhof . Mackowsky's widow Else, who lived until 1950, published new editions of his books after his death.

Publications (selection)

  • The sculptures of Gottfried Schadow . With an introduction by Paul Ortwin Rave . German Association for Art History, Berlin 1951.
  • Schadow's graphic (= research on German art history , volume 19). German Association for Art History, Berlin 1936.
  • Michelangelo. Appendix with "lost, dubious and inauthentic papers", family tables, sources and literature as well as registers . Cassirer, Berlin 1931.
  • Johann Gottfried Schadow. Youth and advancement 1764 to 1797 . Grote, Berlin 1927.
  • Houses and people in old Berlin . Cassirer, Berlin 1923.
  • Adolph Menzel. The soldiers of Frederick the Great . Introduced and explained by Hans Mackowsky. Seemann, Leipzig 1923.
  • Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Letters, diaries, thoughts . Selected, introduced and explained by Hans Mackowsky. Propylaea, Berlin 1922.
  • In the Sunset. Poems . undated [Eduard cue], undated [Potsdam], undated [1920]
  • The beautiful book in old Berlin . In: Almanac of the Bruno Cassirer publishing house . Berlin 1920.
    • Reprint: The beautiful book in old Berlin. A gift for the members of the Berlin Bibliophile Evening . Berlin 1994.
  • with Wolfgang Schütz: The old Berlin tomb 1750 to 1850. A hundred recordings and measurements - introduced by Hans Mackowsky in terms of art history . Cassirer, Berlin 1918.
  • Christian Daniel Rauch. 1777 to 1857 . Cassirer, Berlin 1916.
  • Michelangniolo . Marquardt, Berlin 1908,
    • at Cassirer 1919, 1921,
    • with Cassirer from 1925 and title Michelangelo
      • 1925, 1931,
      • at Metzler 1939, 1941, 1947, 1951.
  • Edited with August Pauly a . Wilhelm Weigand : Adolph Bayersdorfer's life and writings. Issued from his estate. Bruckmann, Munich 1902.
  • Verrocchio . Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld and Leipzig 1901.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To the Rauch Museum Hans Mackowsky: The Rauch Museum. Review and prospects for its fiftieth anniversary . In: Groß Berliner Kalender 1915, pp. 248–258; Margarete Kühn : Charlottenburg Palace . Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1970, ISBN 978-3-7861-4010-8 , p. 6. 89.
  2. ↑ Karl Scheffler: The fat and the lean years. A work and life report . Paul List, Leipzig, Munich 1946, p. 205.
  3. ↑ Wolf Jobst Siedler: We got away with it again. Memories . Siedler, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-88680-790-8 , p. 54.
personal data
SURNAME Mackowsky, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1938
Place of death Potsdam