Helen Rosenau

Helen Rosenau , married Rosenau-Carmi (born March 27, 1900 in Monte-Carlo ; died October 1984 in London ) was a German-British art historian .

Life and activity

Rosenau was a daughter of the medical doctor Albert Rosenau († 1923) and his wife Klara, geb. Lion. She grew up in Monte-Carlo and Bad Kissingen. She received private lessons and passed the Abitur in 1923 as an external student.

From 1923 to 1929 Rosenau studied art history in Munich, Halle, Berlin, Bonn and Hamburg. Heinrich Wölfflin , Adolph Goldschmidt , Paul Clemen and Erwin Panofsky were among her teachers . In the early 1930s she took part in excavations and building research in the cathedrals of Bremen and Cologne and at the Grossmünster in Zurich. In 1930 she completed her studies with Erwin Panofsky in Hamburg with a dissertation on the building history and importance of Cologne Cathedral .

After the National Socialists came to power , Rosenau was prevented from formally completing her habilitation process , which was to be carried out with Martin Wackernagel in Münster in the summer of 1933 (she had already largely completed the corresponding text on medieval architectural designs) due to her Jewish descent . Her application for a habilitation was rejected by the university due to the recently enacted law to restore the civil service and she herself was removed from university service. In addition, her scholarship was not extended by the Notgemeinschaft der deutschen Wissenschaft .

She then emigrated via Switzerland, where she was doing research at the Grossmünster in Zurich in 1933, to Great Britain, where she arrived in autumn 1933. From 1934 to 1935 she was supported by the British Federation of University Women . From 1935 to 1940 Rosenau studied art history again at the Courtauld Institute in London. She completed her studies with a Ph.D. from. As early as 1934 she had published her habilitation thesis, which was not accepted, as a monograph under the title Design and Medieval Architecture .

After her emigration, the National Socialist police officers classified Rosenau as an enemy of the state: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin placed her on the special wanted list GB , a list of people who would be succeeded by the occupying forces in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht Special SS commandos were to be identified and arrested with special priority.

From 1941 Rosenau worked as an employee of the London School of Economics at Karl Mannheim , where she worked on a research topic on the position of women in art. She then took on teaching activities in the field of adult education and gave courses in the German language. At the end of the war in 1945 she was naturalized as a British citizen.

From 1947 to 1951 Rosenau taught as a lecturer at the University of London. She then moved to the University of Manchester as a lecturer . She received the rank of Senior Lecturer in 1966. From 1968 she taught again at London University and also at Leo Baeck College in the same city.

Rosenau's specialist areas were medieval cathedral buildings and architectural drawings as well as Jewish art and architecture, art sociology, French revolutionary architecture, utopian architecture and urban planning.

Rosenau's estate is kept by the Jewish Museum of the City of Frankfurt.

family

Roseau was married to the doctor Zwi Carmi (1883–1950) since 1938, they had a son.

Fonts

• On the building history of Cologne Cathedral. In: The Cologne Cathedral , Cologne 1930, pp. 40–70.
• The Cologne Cathedral. Its building history and historical position (= publications of the Cologne History Association, vol. 7). Cologne 1931 (= dissertation).
• On the building history of the Bremen Cathedral. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch Vol. 33, 1931.
• On the building history of the two metropolitan churches of the Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen. In: Denkmalpflege 1932, pp. 26–35 and 86–94.
• The Aurea Camera of Cologne Cathedral. In: Architectura , 1933.
• Design and Medieval Architecture , London 1934.
• Cathedral Designs of Medieval England. In: Burlington Magazine 66, 1935, pp. 128-137.
• (on synagogue architecture ") in: Journal of the Palestine Exploration Society , 1935.
• The Architectural Development of the Synagogue , London 1940. (PH.D.-script)
• The Synagogue and Protestant Church Architecture. In: Journal of Warburg Court Institute 4, 1940/1941, pp. 80-84.
• The Approach to Art in Adult Education. In: Adult Education , 14, 1941
• Some English Influence on Jan van Eyck. In: Apollo 36, 1942, pp. 125-128.
• Social Status of Women as Reflected in Art. In: Apollo 1937, 1943, pp. 94-98.
• Social Portraits of Princess Mary. In: Burl. Mag 83, 1943, pp. 207f.
• The Prototype of the Virgin and the Child in the Book of Kells. In: Burlington Magazine 83, 1943, pp. 228-231
• Women in Art. From Type to Personality , London 1944.
• Synagogue Architecture. An Expression of Jewish Life. In: Contemporary Review 166, 1944, pp. 49-51.
• A Study on the Iconography of the Incarnation. In: Burlington Magazine 85, 1944, pp. 176-179.
• A Note on English Church Planning in the Middle Ages. In: Journal of Royal Institute British Architecture 3 F. 51, 1944, pp. 206f.
• Claude Nicolas Ledoux. In: Burlington Mag.azine 88, 1946, pp. 163-168.
• Art and Society. In: Contemporary Review 1947, pp. 300-302.
• George Dance the Younger. In: Journal Royal Institute of British Architecture 3., pp. 54, 1947, pp. 502-507.
• A Short History of Jewish Art , London 1948.
• The Painter Jacques-Louis David , London 1948.
• Some Drawings by Jacques-Louis David in the Victoria and Albert Museum. In: Burlington Magazine 90, 1948, pp. 231-233.
• The Evolution of Jewish Art. In: Contemporary Review 1949, May pp. 304-306.
• Architecture and the French Revolution. Jean Jacques Lequeu. In: Architecture Review 106, 1949, pp. 111-116.
• Jacques-Louis David. In: Burl. Mag. 91, 1949, pp. 113f.
• Postscript on Lequeu. In: Architecture Review 109, 1950, pp. 264-26.
• Boullée, Architect-Philosopher. In: Architecture Review 111, 1952, pp. 396-402.
• Boullée's Treatise on Architecture , London 1953.
• Notes on the Illuminations of the Spanish Haggadah in the John Rylands Library. In: B John Rylands Library 36, 1954, pp. 468-483.
• Historical Aspects of the Vitruvian Tradition in Town Planning. In: Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architecture 3. F. 62, 1955, pp. 481-487.
• Contributions to the Study of Jewish Iconography. 1. Cosmic Elements in the Haggadah of Sarayevo. 2. Architectural Tendencies and their Interpretation. In: Bulletin of John Rylands Library 38, 1956, pp. 467-482.
• On the social problem in architectural theory from the 15th to 19th centuries. In: Fs. Martin Wackernagel 1958, pp. 185–193.
• The Dates of Jacob van Ruisdael's ???? 'Jewish Cemeteries'. In: Oud holland 73, 1958, pp. 241f.
• The Ideal City. Its Architectural Evolution , London 1959. (Reprinted 1974, 1983)
• French 'Academic' Architecture, c. 1784-1790. In: Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architecture 3. F. 67, 1959/60.
• The Engravings of the Grand Prix of the French Academy of Architecture. In: Architectural History Vol. 3, 1960, pp. 17-180.
• Problems of Jewish Iconography. In: Graz Bx.Arts , 102, 1960, pp. 5-18.
• The Jonah Sarcophague in the British Museum. In: Journal of British Archaeological Ass. 24, 1961, pp. 60-66.
• New Youth Centers in Sweden and Denmark. In: Journal of the Royal Institue of British Architecture 3.F. 68, 1961, pp. 443-445.
• Utopia y realidad en la Ciudad del Renacimiento , Buenos Aires 1962. (with Joseph Hudmut)
• Textual Gleanings on Jewish Art. In: Cah. Archéol 13, 1962, pp. 39-42.
• German Synagogues in the early Period of Emancipation. In: Year Book of the Leo Baeck Institute of the Jews from Germany , Jg. 8, 1963, pp. 214ff.
• Boullée and Ledoux as Town-Planners. A reassessment. In: Graz Bx-Arts 106, p. 1964, p. 173–190.
• Antoine Petti and his central plan for the Hotel-Dieu in Paris. In: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 27, 1964, pp. 228–237.
• Style and Visual Art. In: British Journal of Aesthetics 5, 1965, p. 7374.
• The Functional and the Ideal in the Late Eighteenth Century French Architecture. In: Architecture Review 140, 1966, pp. 253-258.
• The Functional Element in French Neo-Classicla Architecture. In: Files of the 21st Institute Congress for Art History Bonn 1964 , 1967, Vol. 1, pp. 226–228.
• The Sphere as an Element in the Montgolfier Monuments. In: Art B 50, 1968, no. 1, p. 6f.
• A Latterday Temple Berlin. In: Architectural Design 39, 1969, pp. 79-88.
• Social Purpose in Architecture. Paris and London Compared 1760-1800 , London 1970.
• A Note on the Reconstruction of Salomon's Temple and Palace ny Louis Mailelt In: Gaz Bx-Arts 113, 1971, pp. 307-312.
• The Architecture of Nicolaus de Lyra's Temple: Illustrations on the Jewish Tradition. In: Journal of Jewish Studies , Vol. 25 (1974), pp. 294-304.
• The Synagogue and Protestant Church Architecture. In: The Synagogue: Studies in Origins, Archeology and Architecture , hrs Joseph Gutmann New York 1975, pp. 309-315.
• Boullée and Visionary Architecture , London 1976.
• Gottfried Semper and German Synagogue Architecture. In: Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 22 (1977), pp. 237-244.
• Notes on OEM Qualiteisof Architectural Seals during the Middle Ages In: Gazette Bx. Arts 90, 1977, pp. 77-84.
• Vision of the Temple. The Image of the Temple of Jerusalem in Judaism and Christianity , London 1979.
• Reflections on Moses Montefiore and Social Function in the Arts. In: Journal of Jewish Art 8, 1981, pp. 60-67.
• The Ideal City. In: European History , London 1982.
• Ledoux (1736-1806). An Essay in Historiography. In: gaz Bx. Arts 101, 1983, pp. 177-186.
• Ledoux's' L Architecture Studies on Voliaire , Oxford 1985.

literature

• Helen Rosenau at the age of eighty . In: Structure from March 21, 1980.
• Gordon Higgott: Helen Rosenau 1900–1980. In: Journal of Jewish Art 11, 1985, pp. 79-80.
• Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 2: L – Z. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 563-566.

Web links

• Helen Rosenau in the Dictionary of Art Historians
• Otto Gertzen: In memory of Helen Rosenau , corridor talks, University of Münster, 2017