Hermann Gundersheimer
Hermann Samuel Gundersheimer (born April 25, 1903 in Würzburg , † May 14, 2004 ) was an American art historian of German-Jewish origin.
Life
Hermann Gundersheimer studied from 1923 to 1926 at the universities of Berlin, Munich and Leipzig and received his doctorate in 1926 under Wilhelm Pinder in Leipzig. From 1927 to 1928 he was an assistant at the Museum Ulm , 1928 to 1928 advisor for the E. Cassirer art dealer in Berlin , from 1930 to 1933 assistant at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Frankfurt am Main and was dismissed on March 28, 1933 as a "non-Aryan". From 1933 to 1939 he was curator of the private museum for Jewish antiquities in Frankfurt am Main.
In 1940 he emigrated first to England and in 1940 to the USA. From 1941 taught art history at Temple University in Philadelphia and became a full professor there in 1947.
Publications (selection)
- Matthäus Günther. Fresco painting in 18th century churches in southern Germany . Filser, Augsburg 1930 (dissertation).
- with Guido Schönberger : Frankfurt Hanukkah chandelier in silver and pewter (= memo sheet of the Society for Research into Jewish Art Monuments 34). Frankfurt 1937
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Gundersheimer in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- estate
literature
- Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century . Askania-Verlag, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 (incorrect).
- Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 1: A – K. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 256-257.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gundersheimer, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gundersheimer, Hermann Samuel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 2004 |