Henry Thode

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Henry Thode 1906 on a photograph by Jacob Hilsdorf

Henry Thode , actually Heinrich Thode (born January 13, 1857 in Dresden , † November 19, 1920 in Copenhagen ), was a German art historian .

Life

Thode came from a respected north German family. He went to school in Görlitz and studied law in Leipzig since 1876 . He later switched to studying art history in Vienna, Berlin and Munich. In 1880 he received his doctorate under Moritz Thausing at the University of Vienna . In 1886 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in art history at the University of Bonn .

On a study trip through Italy, he met Richard Wagner in Venice , where he met his stepdaughter. In 1886 he married Daniela von Bülow , the eldest daughter of Cosima Wagner from her first marriage to Hans von Bülow .

For two years in 1889 he became director of the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main. It was there that he met the painter Hans Thoma , with whom he had a long friendship. From 1893 until his retirement in 1911 he taught as a professor at Heidelberg University . Incited by the nationalist excitement during the first Morocco crisis , he unleashed a newspaper war against the supporters of modern art in Berlin in 1905 by advocating for Arnold Böcklin and Hans Thoma.

In 1910 he acquired the Villa Cargnacco in Gardone on Lake Garda in the Kingdom of Italy . In the same year he met his second wife, the Danish violinist Hertha Tegner, whom he married in 1914 after divorcing Daniela von Bülow. After Italy entered the war, the villa was confiscated and later given as a gift from the Italian state to Gabriele D'Annunzio , who created the monumental complex “ Il Vittoriale degli Italiani ” from it.

As a result of the expropriation, Thode also lost his extensive library, art collection and unpublished manuscripts. The couple first went back to Germany and then to Copenhagen , where Thode died depressed in 1920.

The two main focuses of his art-historical work are the Italian Renaissance and German art around 1900. For him Richard Wagner and Hans Thoma stood for the German ideal of art. Because of his racial ideological approaches, which were instrumentalized by the National Socialists, Thode's scientific work is little appreciated in the present.

Memberships

Since 1909 he was an associate member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, and since 1911 a foreign member .

Fonts (selection)

  • Francis of Assisi and the beginnings of Renaissance art in Italy. Grote, Berlin, 1885.
  • The painting school of Nuremberg in the XIV. And XV. Century in their development up to Dürer. Keller, Frankfurt am Main 1891, ( digitized version ).
  • Hans Thoma. Society for Reproductive Art, Vienna 1891.
  • Feather games. With drawings by Hans Thoma. Keller, Frankfurt am Main 1892.
  • The ring of the frangipani. An experience. With decorative strips and final vignettes by Hans Thoma. Keller, Frankfurt am Main 1895.
  • In the series "Artist Monographs" , ZDB -ID 1066095-1 , the volumes:
    • Volume 27: Andrea Mantegna. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld et al. Bielefeld 1897.
    • Volume 30: Correggio. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld et al. 1898.
    • Volume 43: Giotto. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld et al. 1899.
    • Volume 49: Tintoretto. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld et al. 1901.
  • Hans Thomas. Painting. 6 volumes. Keller, Frankfurt am Main 1900–1910.
  • Michelangelo and the end of the Renaissance. 3 volumes (in 4). Grote, Berlin 1902-1903;
    • Volume 1: The genius and the world. 1902;
    • Volume 2: Michelangelo and the end of the Renaissance. 1903;
    • Volume 3: The artist and his works. Dept. 1–2. 1912.
  • Böcklin and Thoma. Eight lectures on modern German painting. Winter, Heidelberg 1905.
  • Art and morality. Winter, Heidelberg 1906.
  • as translator: Michelangelo's poems. In German translation. Grote, Berlin 1914.
  • Luther and German culture. Georg Müller, Munich et al. 1914.
  • The essence of German fine arts (= From nature and the spiritual world. 585, ZDB -ID 516263-4 ). Teubner, Leipzig et al. 1918.
  • Paul Thiem his art. A contribution to the interpretation of the problem: German fantasy and German naturalism. Grote, Berlin 1921.

literature

  • Oliver Hilmes : Cosima's children. Triumph and tragedy of the Wagner dynasty. Siedler, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-88680-899-1 , p.
  • Anna Maria Szylin: Henry Thode. (1857-1920). Life and work (= European university publications. Row 28: Art history. 170). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1993, ISBN 3-631-46086-4 , (also: Heidelberg, University, dissertation, 1988).

Web links

Commons : Henry Thode  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Wikisource: Henry Thode  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Echte , Walter Feilchenfeldt : “A magical intoxication for the senses”, “Completely unique new values”. Kunstsalon Cassirer: The exhibitions 1905–1910 . Volumes 3 and 4. Wädenswil: Nimbus 2014
  2. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Henry Thode. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on June 10, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Thode, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thode, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1920
Place of death Copenhagen