Harold Joachim (art historian)

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Harold Joachim (born January 15, 1909 in Göttingen ; died November 24, 1983 in Chicago ) was a German-American art historian and curator.

Life

Harold Joseph Hermann Julius Joachim was a grandson of the violinist Joseph Joachim . His parents were Else Gensel (1874–1954) and the librarian Johannes Joachim (1864–1949). One brother Wolfgang Joachim was a doctor and emigrated to Colonia Tovar in Venezuela in 1935 . Joachim attended the humanistic high school in Göttingen and from 1927 studied art history, archeology, history, musicology and philosophy in Göttingen, Berlin and Leipzig. He received his doctorate in 1935 from Leo Bruhns in Leipzig with a dissertation on the Königslutter collegiate church . Joachim managed to emigrate to the USA in 1938 .

In 1940 Joachim received a position as an assistant in the Department of Printing and Graphic Art at Harvard University Library in Cambridge / Massachusetts. From 1941 to 1945 Joachim was a US Army soldier in World War II. Under the department director Carl Schniewind, Joachim became Research Assistant in 1946 and later Assistant Curator of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago . After two years as a curator at the Minneapolis Institute of Art , he returned to Chicago, where he was curator of the Department of Prints and Drawings from 1958 to 1973. Joachim ensured a considerable expansion of the collection.

Caspar David Friedrich : statue of the Madonna in the mountains . Was bought by Joachim for Chicago in 1976.

Joachim was the editor of Museum Studies . He wrote a large number of magazine articles and edited several exhibition catalogs.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Collegiate Church of Königslutter: A Contribution to German Art History of the 12th Century . Göttingen: Dieterichsche Universitäts-Buchdruckerei, 1935
  • with Suzanne Folds McCullagh: Italian drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979 ISBN 9780226400136

literature

  • Joachim, Harold , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Art Historians in Exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, p. 338ff.
  • Martha Tedeschi : Great drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago: the Harold Joachim years, 1958–1983 . Introduction by Esther Sparks. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1985 ISBN 9780933920699
  • Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann : Harold Joachim (1909–1983): An Appreciation . Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Autumn, 1985), pp. 4-7 JSTOR 4108786

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personal data
SURNAME Joachim, Harold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1983
Place of death Chicago