Heinrich Brockhaus (art historian)

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Heinrich Eduard Brockhaus (born March 3, 1858 in Leipzig ; † October 24, 1941 there ) was a German art historian .

Life

Heinrich Brockhaus was born on March 3, 1858 as the son of the publisher and politician Eduard Brockhaus in Leipzig. He attended the Thomas School in Leipzig until 1877 and studied history, art history and economics at the University of Leipzig . In 1882 he received his doctorate with a historical dissertation . 1885 habilitation he was there, and in 1892 to associate professor ordered. In the years 1887 and 1888 he went on study trips that took him to Italy , Greece , Syria , Palestine , Egypt , Constantinople and Athos . After taking a leave of absence from teaching at the University of Leipzig, in 1897 he accepted a call from Florence to set up and head the private art history institute . This institute, which was decided by the Art History Congress in 1893 and headed the Brockhaus until 1912, was enlarged , among other things, by the support of the German Reich from 1902 . Brockhaus, who had left university service, returned to Germany in 1913, where he initially taught as a private scholar in Dresden . Finally, in 1917, he also moved to his native Leipzig as a private scholar, where he died on October 24, 1941 at the age of 83.

Act

The generation of researchers to which Brockhaus belonged believed they saw a branch of the entire intellectual culture in the fine arts . Brockhaus's treatises are source-based with solid scientific work. He understood works of art from the spirit of their time of creation and their country. This was of particular benefit to the Florentine art of the Renaissance , but also to Byzantine art , which was his special field of work. His investigations in the Athos monasteries into church architecture, wall painting and illuminated manuscripts are of great importance . These required extensive studies of late liturgical literature and late Byzantine theology . Its results gave the Athos research decisive guidelines not only in Germany. Brockhaus was probably the first to give a lecture on Byzantine art at a German university .

Awards

He was a bearer of the Prussian Red Aristocratic Order, 4th class.

Works (selection)

  • The Electoral Congress in Nuremberg in 1640 . 1883.
  • The art in the Athos monasteries . 1891. 3rd edition 1894.
  • Our architecture today . Inaugural lecture 1895.
  • Arnold Böcklin . 1901.
  • Research on Florentine Works of Art . 1902.
  • Michelangelo and the Medici Chapel . 1909. 3rd edition 1911.
  • German urban art and its meaning . 1916.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Richard Sachse, Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 62.
personal data
SURNAME Brockhaus, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brockhaus, Heinrich Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1941
Place of death Leipzig