Hans Voss (art historian)

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Hans Voss (also Voss ; born October 21, 1928 in Wiesbaden ; † 1980 ) was a German art historian . He was rector of the Offenbach University of Design (HfG).

Life

Voss was born the son of the chemist Julius Voss (1898–1968) and his wife Marianne (née Maibaum) in Wiesbaden-Biebrich . After primary school, he attended the state secondary school for boys on Gutenbergplatz in Wiesbaden - interrupted by a war-related assignment as an air force helper - from which he graduated in the summer of 1948. From the winter semester of 1949/1950 he studied Romance philology (major) and art history (minor) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 1951 he received a French government scholarship at the University of Toulouse . In February 1955 he was in Frankfurt on a theme about the artist Julius Pincas Dr. phil. PhD.

Voss had been working at the Werkkunstschule, the predecessor of the HfG Offenbach, since 1963, and had been the headmaster since 1964. From 1970 to 1980 he was professor of art history there, and in 1971 he was elected the first rector of the institution, now renamed the Offenbach am Main University of Design . Voss' short term in office until 1973 was mainly shaped by the political conflicts with the late 1968 generation. In 1973 he was able to enforce the diploma examination regulations for the departments of graphics and product design.

Voss also worked as a translator from French and English into German, he was a member of the press and television. Among other things, he provided book reviews for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

Fonts

  • Julius Pincas dit Pascin: An attempt at an analysis and a catalog of his graphic works. Dissertation. Breidenstein, Frankfurt am Main 1956.
  • Gustave Courbet in Frankfurt am Main. Werkkunstschule Offenbach, 1964.
  • With Klaus-Peter Heusel and Ellen Schmidt: On wooden architecture in Maramureş: Examples from Rogoz and Budeşti. University of Design, Offenbach am Main 1971.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chronology , website HfG Offenbach.
  2. ^ Emeriti , website HfG Offenbach.