Harald Keller (art historian)

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Harald Keller (born June 24, 1903 in Kassel ; † November 5, 1989 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German art historian .

Life

Harald Keller, son of the teacher Fritz Keller and Magdalene née Schellhas, studied art history at the universities in Leipzig , Heidelberg and Munich from 1923 . In Munich he was in 1929 when Wilhelm Pinder with the work The staircase in the German castle and monastery Baroque Dr. phil. PhD . From 1929 to 1930 he was assistant to Carl Georg Heise at the St. Annen Museum in Lübeck , from 1930 to 1935 initially a scholarship holder, later assistant at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome .

In 1935 he completed his habilitation with Hans Jantzen for the subject of art history at the University of Frankfurt am Main with a thesis on Giovanni Pisano , in the same year he moved to the University of Munich as a private lecturer in medieval and modern art history. During the Nazi era, Keller was considered politically cautious. His university career is singled out as exemplary for an attitude that showed "[...] that restraint and refusal to a certain extent were quite possible." In 1948 he returned to the Art History Institute of the University of Frankfurt am Main as a full professor of art history . From 1948 to 1955 he wrote articles for the art chronicle of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. In 1971 he retired .

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Harald Keller's research spans the period from the Middle Ages to the 19th century . He represented the view of art geography , which goes back to Johann Joachim Winckelmann , in which "[...] the regions of a country are to be defined as art spaces with a constant individual character and facts of art history to be derived from the landscape." So it was understandable for him that the Early Renaissance could only develop under the local historical conditions of the Tuscan cities, while the High Renaissance could only develop in papal Rome. For him, the development of a Titian was only imaginable in Venice. But he always used art geography only as an additional explanatory tool and did not fail to recognize that social influences on art production could overlay local productions.

Keller was a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • Giovanni Pisano. A. Schroll, Munich 1942.
  • with Walter Hege : Bamberg ( Deutsche Lande - German Art ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1950 (4th edition 1973).
  • Salzburg (German Land - German Art). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1956.
  • Angel Pillar in Strasbourg Cathedral. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1957.
  • Veit Stoss. The Bamberg Altar. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1959.
  • The art landscapes of Italy. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1960.
  • Venetian Renaissance. German Book Association, Berlin / Darmstadt / Vienna 1962.
  • The art landscapes of France. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1963.
  • Goethe, Palladio and England. Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 1971.
  • with Jeannine Baticle: The Art of the 18th Century. Ullstein, Berlin 1971.
  • Michelangelo: Drawings and Seals. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1975, ISBN 3-458-01847-6 .
  • Michelangelo. Sculptor, painter, architect. German Book Association, Stuttgart 1976.
  • The afterlife of the ancient portrait. From the Carolingian period to the present day , Freiburg i.Br. 1977, ISBN 3-85883-008-9 .
  • Old Europe. The high art of the city vedute , Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-421-02586-X .
  • View from Monte Cavo. Small fonts. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1984.
  • Dresden in views from Canaletto. Harenberg, Dortmund 1985.
  • South Tyrol - Art Landscape or Passport and Road Country ?, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-515-04828-6 .
  • French impressionists. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1993.

Festschrift

  • Hans Martin von Erffa (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Harald Keller. For his 60th birthday offered by his students , Roether, Darmstadt 1963.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sabine Fastert: [Review to :] Nikola Doll, Christian Fuhrmeister, Michael Sprenger (eds.): Art history in National Socialism. Contributions to the history of a science between 1930 and 1950 ; [Accompanying volume for the traveling exhibition Art History in National Socialism , Bonn, Kunsthistorisches Institut, March 16 - April 29, 2005], Munich, Central Institute for Art History, 11., Weimar 2005. p. 235. In: H-ArtHist, June 16, 2005. Last accessed May 16, 2012.
  2. ^ Metzler Kunsthistoriker-Lexikon . 1st edition, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999 ISBN 3-476-01535-1 , p. 212 f.
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 1989
Place of death Frankfurt am Main