Hans Rosenhagen

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Hans Rosenhagen, painted by Max Slevogt (1908)

Hans Victor Rosenhagen (born May 1, 1858 in Berlin ; † 1943 ) was a German art historian and art critic.

He studied art history in Berlin with Herman Grimm, among others . 1890–96 he was editor of the art magazine Das Atelier . He later worked as an art consultant for the Daily Rundschau and Berliner Tag and wrote for numerous other newspapers. He also published several monographs, including on Max Liebermann and Fritz von Uhde .

Hans Rosenhagen is best known as the author of two articles that appeared in the day in April 1902 and in which he sharply criticized the conservative cultural policy of the Bavarian metropolis under the title Munich's decline as an art city . Above all, he accused the city of lacking support for the Secession , which is why important artists such as Lovis Corinth and Max Slevogt had emigrated to Berlin.

Rosenhagen's criticism became the starting point of a widely received debate that continued for decades, in the course of which “Munich's decline as an art city” became a household word. In 1929 Adolf Hitler took up the controversy and contradicted, on the contrary, the "decline of German art [...] is still least felt in Munich".

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who is it? Our contemporaries. Edited by Hermann AL Degener. 10th edition 1935, p. 345.
  2. ^ Frank Büttner: The Academy and Munich's reputation as a city of art . In: zeitenblicke 5 (2006), No. 2. http://www.zeitenblicke.de/2006/2/Buettner/index_html
  3. ^ Ann Katrin Bäumler: Art (Weimar Republic) in the Historisches Lexikon Bayern.
  4. ↑ cf. also Frank Wedekind in Simplicissimus 1902: [1]
  5. ↑ Speech of April 3, 1929. From: Klaus A. Lankheit (Ed.): Hitler. Talking scriptures arrangements. Volume 3, Part 2, pp. 132-33.
personal data
SURNAME Rosenhagen, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenhagen, Hans Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1943