Hans Schneider (art historian)

Hans Schneider  (born August 4, 1888  in  Basel ; † November 7, 1953 ibid) was a  Swiss  art historian  and director of the  Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD). His art historical interest was in Dutch painting of the 17th century.

Life

Hans Schneider studied art history , archeology and history in Basel, Munich, Rome and Berlin. In 1914 he received his doctorate from Basel University . His dissertation was entitled Contributions to the history of the Dutch influence on Upper German painting and graphics around 1460-1480 . After completing his studies, he moved to the Netherlands and was director of the Mauritshuis in The Hague from 1915 to 1930 . In 1923 he gave a lecture on the method of art history at the University of Leiden and was one of the editors of the art history periodical Oud Holland from 1937 to 1940 . From 1930 to 1940 he was director of the Netherlands Institute for Art History . After the occupation of the Netherlands by the Wehrmacht, Schneider left his adopted home in 1941 and returned to Switzerland, where he became head of the project “ Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz ” and was in charge of the publication of the same name.

Hans Schneider was friends with the German art historian and director of the Berlin Gemäldegalerie Max J. Friedländer and helped him emigrate to the Netherlands.

Hans Schneider served as a middleman between Nathan Katz and Walter Andreas Hofer .

Schneider also played a role in the removal of the auction catalogs for the Mainz antiques and art dealer David Reiling .

Fonts

• Contributions to the history of the Dutch influence on Upper German painting and graphics around 1460–1480. Basel, 1915.
• Over art historical method. Openbare les Gegeven bij optreden as a private docent in de kunstgeschiedenis aan de Rijks-Universiteit te Leiden op 17 mei 1923. Brill, Leiden 1923. ( Online , PDF at Delpher).
• Commemorative Catalog of the Exhibition of Dutch Art held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January – March, 1929. Oxford University Press / Milford, London 1930.
• Jan Lievens . His life and his works. De eerven F. Bohn, Haarlem 1932. Improved reprint with supplement by REO Ekkart. BM Israël, Amsterdam 1973.

literature

• Adolph Staring: Hans Schneider (April 8, 1888 - Bazel - November 7, 1953). In: Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde , 1952/1953, pp. 137–144 (Dutch).
• HE van Gelder: In memoriam Dr. H. Schneider 1888-1953. In: Oud Holland , year 68, 1953, ISSN  0030-672X , pp. 187-188 (Dutch).
• Horst Gerson : In memoriam Dr. Hans Scheider. In: Nieuws-Bulletin van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Oudheidkundige Bond , Volume 6, 1953, pp. 185-190 (Dutch).
• H. Dattenberg: mortuary tablet by Hans Schneider. In: Kunstchronik , Volume 7, 1954, pp. 23-25.

Web links

• Hans Schneider in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
• Hans Schneider on Lostart.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Schneider, Hans. (No longer available online.) Dictionary of Art Historians , archived from the original on March 6, 2016 ; Retrieved April 4, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Society for Swiss Art History. Retrieved April 5, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Suzanne Laemers: "I am always happy when you can use me as a 'lightning rod'." Hans Schneider and Max Friedländer: Colleagues in good and bad times. Retrieved April 5, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Nathan Katz ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Lostart.de.
5. ↑ Ruth Kaloena Krul: David Reilings catalogs. Retrieved April 5, 2017 .