Hans Wolff (art historian)

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Hans Wolff (born January 24, 1882 in Berlin ; † 1959 ) was a German art historian and publisher .

Life

Hans Wolff attended the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin up to the final exam in Easter 1901. He then studied natural sciences, from 1903 then art history and classical archeology at the University of Berlin and received his doctorate on March 20, 1909 under Heinrich Wölfflin . From June 2, 1915 to July 1, 1919 he was employed as a research assistant in the Kupferstichkabinett in Dresden . In 1924 he founded the “Neue Verlagsanstalt” in Berlin, which specialized in travel literature. The publishing house was closed in 1931 for economic reasons. In addition, he was the owner of the book production company "Terramare Presse" who worked for the "Terramare Office" of the lawyer Karl Kiesel (1878-1960).

Publications (selection)

  • The Dutch landscape etching of the XVII. Century (Chapter II). Noske, Borna-Leipzig o. J. (partial print of the dissertation, with curriculum vitae).
  • Book ornamentation in the 15th and 16th centuries (= monographs of the book trade 5). 2 volumes, Verlag des Deutschen Buchgewerbevereins, Leipzig 1911/13.
  • Old printer and publisher's marks. In: Archiv für Buchgewerbe und Nutzgraphik 48, 1911, pp. 10–17.
  • The Strasbourg book ornamentation in the XV. and XVI. Century . In: Archiv für Buchgewerbe und Nutzgraphik 48, 1911, pp. 177–183.
  • Jean-François Millet. An artist's life in letters . Voigtländer, Leipzig 1913.
  • The history of the Royal Academy for graphic arts and book trade in Leipzig from 1764–1901. Leipzig 1914.
  • Adolph von Menzel's letters , Bard, Berlin 1914.
  • Drawings by Adolph Menzel (= Arnold's graphic books, 2nd volume, volume 1). Ernst Arnold Verlag, Dresden 1920.
  • Drawings by Max Liebermann (= Arnold's graphic books, 2nd volume, volume 4). Ernst Arnold Verlag, Dresden 1922.
  • The German Baltic coast. Part 1: From Flensburg to Stettin . New publishing house, Berlin 1924.
  • The last twenty years with Max Liebermann. For his 100th birthday today. In: Staatszeitung and Herold (New York), Sunday paper July 20, 1947; Dutch: Max Liebermann in de huiselijke kring. In: Phoenix 2, 1947, pp. 141-148.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Year of death according to Martin Faas (ed.): Martha Liebermann (1857–1943). Life pictures. Max Liebermann Society, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811952-0-0 , p. 75.
  2. ↑ marginalia. Zeitschrift für Buchkunst und Bibliophilie 129–132, 1993, p. 50, note 10.
  3. ↑ Roland Jaeger: The "Terramare Office": German cultural advertising and national socialist propaganda abroad. In: From the Antiquariat 2005, No. 1, pp. 27–35, especially pp. 27–28.
  4. ↑ Claudia Keisch, Marie Ursula Riemann-Reyher: Adolf Menzel Briefe . Volume 1. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-06740-0 , pp. 53–54.
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1959