Heinrich M. Black

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Heinrich Mathias Schwarz (born September 12, 1911 , † June 21, 1957 in Rome ) was a German art historian and photographer .

Life

Heinrich Mathias Schwarz studied art history at the University of Bonn and received his doctorate in 1936 under Paul Clemen with a thesis on church architecture of the late Gothic in the Klevian region. In the same year he moved to Rome , where he initially worked for a year as a scholarship holder of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and from 1938 to 1943 as an assistant at the Bibliotheca Hertziana . In 1951/1952 he continued his research on the Norman art of Calabria and Sicily . From 1953 he worked as a state curator for the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate . In 1956, Schwarz was appointed Scientific Member of the Bibliotheca Hertziana. At the same time, he was appointed head of the newly created department for research into the art of southern Italy, especially the Norman and Staufer epoch. A year later he was killed in a car accident while on a study trip.

Schwarz's successor as head of the Southern Italy department was Hanno Hahn , who also died in a car accident with his wife Ilse on a study trip through France in 1960.

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Schwarz 'photographic estate consists of approx. 1500 black and white negatives in the format 6 × 6 cm on the architecture of Italy (especially the south) from the period between 1939 and 1957. The written estate is in the archive of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Wolff-Metternich : Totentafel - Heinrich M. Schwarz. In: Kunstchronik 10, 1957, p. 240 f.
  2. ↑ see data of the dissertation in the German National Library at http://d-nb.info/362703043
personal data
SURNAME Schwarz, Heinrich M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwarz, Heinrich Mathias (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1911
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1957
Place of death Rome