Herman Grimm

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Herman Grimm (1883)

Herman Friedrich Grimm (born January 6, 1828 in Kassel , † June 16, 1901 in Berlin ) was a German art historian and publicist .

Life

Gravesite of Herman Grimm, his father, uncle and two siblings in the old St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof Berlin

Herman Grimm was the son of Wilhelm Grimm and his wife Dorothea, geb. Wild. He was a student of the historian Leopold von Ranke . Herman Grimm lived in Berlin since 1841 . He belonged to the circle of friends of Goethe's friend Bettina von Arnim , whose daughter Gisela he married on October 25, 1859.

After studying law and philology, which he began in 1847, he finally received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1868 and then completed his habilitation in Berlin in 1870 . In 1873 he was appointed professor of new art history at the University of Berlin, where he taught until his death. Heinrich Wölfflin was his successor . He was also one of the founders of the Goethe Society and was one of the editors of the Weimar edition of Goethe's works. In 1867 Grimm met the literary critic and historian Julian Schmidt (1818–1886) who had reviewed Grimm's novel Insurmountable Powers . An intense friendship developed between the Schmidt and Grimm couples, which was also promoted by their direct neighborhood in Berlin.

Grimm's works are written in a style that is still alive today. They not only lead the reader out of well-trodden paths of thought, but also enable him to get used to a free and less traditionally bound use of the language. This is particularly noticeable in the Goethe lectures. Grimm not only reports , but has the intention to really stimulate thought.

Herman Grimm died in Berlin in 1901 at the age of 73 after a long illness. He was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . There he rests next to the graves of honor of Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm .

Awards

estate

The scientific and private estate of Herman Grimm (1828–1901) as well as partial estates of the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and other family members are kept in the Hessian State Archives in Marburg (inventory 340 Grimm). It has a circumference of around 30 running meters and covers the years from 1698 to 1949. The inventory has been fully developed and can be researched online via Arcinsys Hessen.

Publications (selection)

  • Raphael's life and work . Phaidon Verlag, Essen 1997, ISBN 3-88851-209-3 (former title “Das Leben Raphael's”).
  • Novellas . Berlin 1856 (reprint published by Zbinden 1966).
  • Michelangelo's life . 3 vols. Carl Rümpler, Hanover 1868.
  • Homer's Iliad . 2 vols. Hertz, Berlin 1890/95.
  • Albrecht Dürer . Lüderitz, Berlin 1866.
  • Essays on literature . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1915.
  • Essays on Art . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1915.
  • German artist. Seven essays . Kröner, Stuttgart 1942 (= Kröner's pocket edition , 184).
  • New essays on art and literature . Dümmler, Berlin 1865.
  • as publisher: Deutsche Sagen (by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, two volumes: 1816, 1818) 3rd edition 1891.
  • Goethe's friendship bond with Schiller . Lectures (Reclams Universal Library 7174). Reclam, Leipzig 1949 (reprint of the Leipzig 1932 edition).
  • Achim von Arnim and those close to him . Lang, Bern 1970 (repr. Of the Stuttgart edition 1904).
  • From the spirit of the Germans. Thoughts. A breviary . Herbig, Berlin 1940.
  • Goethe. Lectures held at the Kgl. University of Berlin . 2 volumes. Cotta, Stuttgart 1923.
  • The Academy of Arts and the Relationship of Artists to the State . Hertz, Berlin 1859.
  • Goethe in Italy. Lecture given in Berlin on the best of the Goethe Memorial . Hertz, Berlin 1859.
  • The cartons of Peter von Cornelius in the halls of the Königl. Academy of Arts in Berlin . Hertz, Berlin 1859.
  • Unconquerable powers. Novel. 3 volumes. Hertz, Berlin 1867.
  • (Ed.) Correspondence between Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from their youth. Böhlau, Weimar 1881.
  • Ten Selected Essays Introducing the Study of Modern Art . Dümmler, Berlin 1883 (available in digital form from Heidelberg University).
  • Michelangelo . His life in the history and culture of his time, the heyday of art in Florence and Rome . Stuttgart 1907 (Reprint Safari-Verlag, Berlin 1967).
  • The child . In: German Novellenschatz . Edited by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz. Vol. 6. 2nd edition Berlin, [1910], pp. 275-356. In: Weitin, Thomas (Ed.): Fully digitized corpus. The German Novellenschatz . Darmstadt / Konstanz, 2016. ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
  • The century of Goethe. Memories and reflections on German intellectual history in the nineteenth century . Kröner, Stuttgart 1948 (= Kröner's pocket edition , 193).

Letters

  • In the name of Goethe. The correspondence between Marianne von Willemer and Herman Grimm. Edited and introduced by Hans Joachim Mey. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1988.
  • Frederick W. Holls (Ed.): Correspondence between Ralph Waldo Emerson and Herman Grimm . Kennikat Press, London 1971 (= Literary America in the 19th Century ).
  • Correspondence between the Brothers Grimm and Herman Grimm (including the correspondence between Herman Grimm and Dorothea Grimm, née Wild). Edited by Holger Ehrhardt, Kassel / Berlin 1998 (= works and correspondence of the Brothers Grimm. Kassel edition . Dept. Letters , Volume 1), ISBN 3-929633-63-9 .
  • Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with correspondents in Berlin from 1832 to 1883. Edited by Klaus Martin Kopitz , Eva Katharina Klein and Thomas Synofzik (= Schumann-Briefedition , Series II, Volume 17), Dohr, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-86846 -028-5 , pp. 53-86.

literature

  • Wolfgang von Löhneysen :  Grimm, Herman (Friedrich). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , pp. 79-81 ( digitized version ).
  • Herman Grimm (1828–1901) between the post-March and early years (= yearbook of the Brothers Grimm Society ), Volume 17/18 (2007–2008), Kassel 2015 (contains the lectures of a conference in the Hessian State Archives in Marburg on October 9 and 10 2009): -: From the content: Bernhard Lauer (Kassel and Berlin): Herman Grimm (1828–1901) as poet, draftsman, critic - a bio-bibliographical overview; Stefan Knödler (Tübingen): “A kind of inheritance” - On Goethe's present with Herman Grimm; Johannes Rössler (Weimar): Between Peter von Cornelius and Eugène Burnand - Herman Grimm on the imagination of artists; Hans-Harald Müller and Mirko Nottscheid (Hamburg): On the correspondence between Herman Grimm and Wilhelm Scherer; Matthias Memmel (Munich): Herman Grimm and Heinrich Wölfflin - two representatives of one subject; Sylke Kaufmann (Kamenz): Herman Grimm and Louise Seidler - facets of a friendship between admiration and defamation; Rotraut Fischer (Darmstadt) and Christina Ujma (Berlin): City of Freedom - City of Opulence: Florence and Rome in Herman Grimm's “Michelangelo” and “Raphael”; Sebastian Böhmer (Halle / Saale): The romantic recipe for success - The bourgeoisisation of romanticism in Herman Grimm's "Life of Michelangelo"; Franziska Kraft (Freiburg): Herman Grimm as Michelangelo translator - A poetic new staging by the Renaissance artist; Rainer Zuch (Marburg): Between Science and Revelation - Herman Grimm and the Skioptikon; Barbara Hammes (Marburg): Remembrance and perpetuation - the estate of Herman Grimm in the Hessian State Archives in Marburg.
  • Norbert Otto, Julian Schmidt - A Search for Traces, Hildesheim 2018; (on the friendship between Schmidt and Grimm see p. 181ff.)
  • Wilhelm Schlink : Herman Grimm (1828–1901). Epigone and precursors . In: Jutta Osinski, Felix Saure (ed.): Aspects of Romanticism: on the award of the “Brothers Grimm Prize” of the Philipps University of Marburg in December 1999 (= writings of the Brothers Grimm Society Kassel 32). Brüder-Grimm-Gesellschaft, Kassel 2001, pp. 73–93 ( digitized version ).
  • Barbara Aulinger: Grimm, Herman. In: Paul von Naredi-Rainer, Johann Konrad Eberlein , Götz Pochat (eds.): Major works of art history writing (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 364). Kröner, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-520-36401-2 , pp. 172-175.

Web links

Commons : Herman Grimm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung , supplement, June 18, 1901.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 302.
  3. ↑ Overview of the holdings "Grimm estate"  (HStAM holdings 340 Grimm). In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), accessed on June 20, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Grimm, Herman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grimm, Herman Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1901
Place of death Berlin