Herbert Siebenhüner

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Herbert Siebenhüner (born March 30, 1908 in Leipzig , † March 31, 1996 in Würzburg ) was a German art historian . Siebenhüner dealt mainly with Italian art and architecture of the Renaissance and Baroque.

Life

Herbert Siebenhüner first studied architecture and soon switched to art history. His studies in Leipzig, Vienna, Freiburg and Frankfurt were supplemented by several stays in Italy, which served to prepare for his doctorate. He received his doctorate in 1935 at the University of Leipzig with his dissertation on the colourism of the early Renaissance, mainly shown in the 'trattato della pittura' by LB Alberti and a work by Piero della Francesca . In 1937 Siebenhüner, who received a scholarship at the Villa Romana in Florence , took in the sculptor Emy Roeder , who had emigrated to Italy . From 1940 to 1945 Siebenhüner was first assistant at the German Art History Institute in Florence . In 1942 he completed his habilitation at the University of Leipzig and was assigned a teaching position at the University of Graz . Already drafted for military service, he was sent back to Florence in September 1943 and from November 1943 to spring 1945 he was a volunteer at the German Military Art Protection Department in Italy. In 1945 he was supposed to work on Heinrich von Geymüller's estate in Graz , but never got there due to the chaos of the war.

In 1949 he was re- qualified at the University of Bonn , where he was appointed adjunct professor in 1952 and a diet lecturer in 1953 . In 1954 he was appointed to the chair for Medieval and Modern Art History at the University of Würzburg and taught there until his retirement in 1973.

Publications (selection)

  • About the colorism of the early Renaissance mainly shown in the "Trattato della pittura" by LB Alberti and in a work by Piero della Francesca . Schramberg 1935 (= dissertation).
  • German artists at the Milan Cathedral . Munich 1944.
  • The Capitol in Rome. Idea and shape . Kösel, Munich 1954.
  • The Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza in Venice and its Tizian collection (= Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani Studien 5). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 1981.

literature

  • Otto Wenig: Directory of professors and lecturers at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn 1818–1968 . Bouvier, Bonn 1968, p. 292.
  • Erich Hubala , Gunter Schweikhart (eds.): Festschrift Herbert Siebenhüner for his 70th birthday on March 10, 1978. Schöningh, Würzburg 1978, ISBN 3-87717-700-X .
  • Stefan Kummer : In memoriam Herbert Siebenhüner. Address on the occasion of the academic commemoration in honor of Professor Dr. Herbert Siebenhüner on July 5, 1997 in the Toscana Hall of the Würzburg Residence. Wuerzburg 1997.
  • Christian Fuhrmeister, Johannes Griebel, Stephan Klingen, Ralf Peters (eds.): Art historians in the war. German Military Art Protection in Italy 1943–1945 (= publications of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich 29). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-412-20804-2 , pp. 16-17. 65, 96, 97.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Josef Ploder: Heinrich von Geymüller and the architectural drawing. Work and impact of a Renaissance researcher . Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-205-98724-1 , p. 81.
personal data
SURNAME Siebenhuner, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1996
Place of death Wurzburg