Hans Wolfgang Singer (art historian)

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Hans Wolfgang Singer (born September 16, 1867 in New York ; † May 30, 1957 in Dresden ) was a German art historian .

Life

Hans Wolfgang Singer was born in New York in 1867 as the son of the musician and composer Otto Singer (1833–1894). He attended public and private schools in Cincinnati , where he began to study from 1883. While his four years older brother Otto Singer junior (1863–1931) became a composer, Hans Wolfgang Singer studied German literature and art history . After obtaining the Bachelor of Arts , he studied four semesters in Munich , then in the winter semester of 1888/89 in Berlin and from Easter 1889 in Leipzig . In 1891 he was with the thesis "The bourgeois tragedy in England" doctorate .

From 1891 to 1932 Singer worked at the Kupferstichkabinett Dresden , first as a scientific assistant, then as assistant director and then as curator . In 1903 he was awarded the title of professor. Singer went on numerous study trips through Europe. He published art history articles in German and English journals, often under the pseudonym “L. Tyson ”.

Until 1945 Singer lived in the Art Nouveau villa built in 1912 at Wachwitzer Bergstrasse 16 .

Publications (selection)

General artist lexicon. Lives and works of the most famous visual artists , revised and updated editions, prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . Edited by Hans Wolfgang Singer. Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1895-1901.

Volume 1: A – F , 1895 ( digitized version )
Volume 2: Gaab – Lezla , 1896 ( digitized version )

Volume 3: Lhérie – Quitty , 1898 ( digitized )

Volume 4: Raab – Vezzo , 1901 ( digitized version )

Volume 5: Vialle-Zyrlein. Supplements and corrections , 1901 ( digitized version )

on this Volume 6: Second supplement with corrections , 1922 ( digital copy )

General catalog of portraits . 14 volumes, Hiersemann, Leipzig 1930–1936.
The technical terms of graphics. A reference dictionary for picture and book collectors . Hiersemann, Leipzig 1933.

literature

Kirsten Büsing, Anne Büsing: Alumni and their bookplates. 600 years of Leipzig University . Vieweg + Teubner, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-8348-0859-2 , pp. 64-65 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-8348-9983-5_29 .

Web links

Literature by and about Hans Wolfgang Singer in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Hans Wolfgang Singer in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

↑ Glaubrecht Friedrich: James McNeill Whistler. Etchings and lithographs from the years 1858 to 1896. Exhibition from August 31 to November 25, 1994 in the Kupferstich-Kabinett of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden . State Art Collections Dresden. Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden 1994, p. 11 .
^ Streets and squares in Wachwitz , accessed on February 28, 2015

personal data
SURNAME	Singer, Hans Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	L. Tyson (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH	September 16, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City
DATE OF DEATH	May 30, 1957
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Glaubrecht Friedrich: James McNeill Whistler. Etchings and lithographs from the years 1858 to 1896. Exhibition from August 31 to November 25, 1994 in the Kupferstich-Kabinett of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden . State Art Collections Dresden. Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden 1994, p. 11 .

[2] Streets and squares in Wachwitz , accessed on February 28, 2015