Hermann Egger (art historian)

Hermann Egger (born December 7, 1873 in Graz ; † April 24, 1949 there ) was an Austrian art historian .

Life

Hermann Egger studied art history at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate there on July 9, 1900 . In 1902 he became a private lecturer at the Technical University of Vienna and in 1905 at the University of Vienna. In 1906 he became an assistant and in 1908 custodian at the Kupferstichkabinett of the Vienna Court Library . In 1911 he became an associate professor, and in 1916 a full professor of art history at the University of Graz . In 1946 he retired.

Since his dissertation, he has been particularly interested in Italian sketches and sketchbooks as well as topographical views of Rome .

family

On September 22, 1909, he married Elisabeth Stooss (born November 25, 1880 in Bern, † September 23, 1962 in Graz), daughter of the Swiss criminal lawyer Carl Stooss , who had taught at the University of Vienna since 1896. They had three daughters, including Adele Egger, married Sturm (1910–1968), who also became an art historian. She received her doctorate in Graz in 1933 and worked at the Joanneum .

Publications (selection)

• The so-called sketchbook of Baldassare Peruzzi in Siena . Dissertation Vienna 1900.
  • printed: Baldassare Peruzzi's drafts for Charles V's entry into Rome . In: Yearbook of the Art History Collections of the Very Highest Imperial House 23, 1902, p. 1ff. ( Digitized version ).
• Critical directory of the collection of architectural hand drawings in the KK Hof Library in Vienna . Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1903 ( digitized version ) ..
• with Christian Hülsen , Adolf Michaelis : The Codex Escurialensis. A sketchbook from the workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaios . 2 volumes, Hölder, Vienna 1905/06 ( digitized text volume )
• with Christian Hülsen: The Roman sketchbooks by Marten van Heemskerck. 2 volumes, Bard, Berlin 1913 and 1916.
• Roman vedute. Hand drawings from the XV. to XVIII. Century on the topography of the city of Rome. 2 volumes, Wolfrum, Vienna 1931/32.

literature

• Eberhard Hempel : Hermann Egger . In: Kunstchronik 2, 1949, pp. 289–290 ( digitized version ).
• Hans Sedlmayr : Hermann Egger . In: Almanach der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 99, 1949 (1950), pp. 260–263.
• Egger, Hermann. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 223.
• Walter Höflechner, Götz Pochat (ed.): 100 years of art history at the University of Graz . Academic Printing and Publishing Institute, Graz 1992.

Web links

• Dictionary of Art Historians
• Villa Seeheim in Krumpendorf , from 1916 summer residence of Hermann Egger