Hans R. Hahnloser

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Hans Robert Hahnloser (born December 13, 1899 in Winterthur ; † November 7, 1974 in Bern ) was a Swiss art historian .

Live and act

Adolescent years and training

Hans R. Hahnloser's father Arthur Hahnloser practiced as an ophthalmologist, his mother Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler had trained as a painter. His younger sister was Lisa Jäggli-Hahnloser (1901–1987).

The parents lived in the Winterthur Villa Flora , which also housed the father's practice. In 1918, Hans R. Hahnloser finished secondary school in Winterthur with the Matura . During his school days he was a member of the Vitodurania secondary school association, where he was given the name "Stürchel". Hahnloser then studied art history at the universities of Zurich , Basel and Vienna . His doctoral thesis , submitted to Julius von Schlosser in 1926 , dealt with the Villard de Honnecourt construction hut book .

Vincent van Gogh: Young Peasant Woman with Straw Hat, Sitting in Front of a Wheat Field (1890), formerly the Hans R. Hahnloser Collection

From 1907 onwards, the parents brought together one of the most important collections of modern art in Switzerland. In his youth, Hans R. Hahnloser was not only able to study his parents' art collection and observe his mother's artistic activities, he also got to know the artists who frequent the Villa Flora. This is evidenced by the double portrait of the two Hahnloser children that Félix Vallotton created during a visit in 1912.

family

Hahnloser had been married to Magdalena Bertha Wilckens from Bremen since 1929. From this marriage there were four children. After the death of his parents, their art collection was divided between Hahnloser and his sister Lisa. While parts of these collections are now owned by the Hahnloser / Jaeggli Foundation , other parts are still owned by the family and were shown in the Villa Flora in Winterthur . On the other hand, Hahnloser's heirs of Vincent van Gogh's painting Young Peasant Woman with Straw Hat, sitting in front of a wheat field , which has been in Steven A. Cohen's collection since 2005, parted ways .

activities

After his return to Switzerland, Hahnloser taught art history as a professor at the University of Bern from 1934 to 1968 . In 1938 and 1945 he also served as dean of the faculty and was rector of the university from 1956 to 1957 . From 1957 to 1966 he was President of the Society for Swiss Art History . He was also a member of the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art .

From 1938 to 1947 Hahnloser was in charge of the excavations and restorations of the former Cluniac priory in Rüeggisberg . He devoted his further research to the choir windows and altars of the Bern Minster . Together with befriended art historians, he initiated the inventory project for European stained glass from the Middle Ages, Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi , which is now part of the Union Académique Internationale . In addition, on behalf of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, he wrote the new inventory of the church treasures of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice . In addition to his numerous publications on medieval art , Hahnloser also wrote several writings on modern art that emerged from the context of his parents' collection.

Hahnloser's best-known students include the later director of the Kunsthalle Bern and exhibition curator Harald Szeemann , the later director of the Kunstmuseum Bern Hans Christoph von Tavel , and Robert L. Wyss , later director of the Historisches Museum Bern . In addition, the later professors Ellen Beer , Luc Mojon , Marcel Roethlisberger , Rudolf Schnyder and Paul Hofer studied with him .

Publications (selection)

  • Wolfenbüttel's sample book. Society for Reproductive Art, Vienna 1929.
  • Villard de Honnecourt. Critical complete edition of the Bauhüttenbuch [...]. Schroll, Vienna 1935; 2nd edition Graz 1972.
  • The Rüeggisberg Cluniac Priory. Society for Swiss Art History / Birkhäuser, Basel 1947.
  • Choir windows and altars of the Bern Minster. Benteli, Bern 1950.
  • The Bern Minster. Society for Swiss Art History, Basel 1954.
  • Works from the Hahnloser Collection. Conzett & Huber, Zurich 1956.
  • Groupe des Nabis, Epoque 1900. Maison Pulliérane, Pully 1963.
  • Adolf Herbst  : the first comprehensive monograph by the painter Adolf Herbst. ABC Verlag, Zurich 1974, ISBN 3-85504-033-8 .
  • Corpus of hard stone cuts from the 12th to 15th centuries. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-87157-101-6 .
  • La pala d'oro. Canal & Stamperia, Venice 1994, ISBN 88-86502-01-X .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bühler-Hahnloser-Jäggli family tree. www.winterthur-glossar.ch, October 9, 2012, accessed on May 7, 2014 .
  2. ^ Peter Hauser : List of Members of the Generations 1864–1990. In: Alt-Vitodurania (Hrsg.): Festchronik 125 years Vitodurania. A souvenir book of the festivities of the 125th anniversary of Vitodurania from 8 to 12 September 1988 in and around Winterthur. Ziegler Druck- und Verlags-AG , Winterthur 1988, p. 87.
  3. ↑ Carol Vogel: A Gauguin and a van Gogh Change Hands. In: New York Times, October 7, 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Hahnloser, Hans R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hahnloser, Hans Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss art historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur
DATE OF DEATH November 7th 1974
Place of death Bern