Hilde Kurz

Hilde Kurz (born Schüller , born February 22, 1910 in Vienna , † 1981 in London ) was an Austro-British art historian .

Life

Hilde Schüller came from a wealthy Viennese Jewish family. She was the daughter of the national economist Richard Schüller (1870–1972) and his wife Erna, b. Rosenthal (1880-1968). After attending the girls' high school in Vienna's VIII district , she studied art history and classical archeology at the University of Vienna from 1928 to 1933 , interrupted by a semester in Frankfurt, and received her doctorate there in 1933. Then she was a trainee at the Albertina Graphic Collection . Since she saw no more opportunities in Vienna as a Jew, she went to London in 1937, where she married her fellow student, the art historian Otto Kurz (1908–1975), who had gone to London in 1934 and worked there at the Warburg Institute . She supported him in his research. Both had a daughter Erica (* 1940). After a brain operation, she had been paralyzed on one side since 1957 and could no longer speak. She has since been cared for at home by her husband.

Fonts

• Hilde Schüller: The development of the old Dutch panel painting and tapestry from 1475 to 1495 . Dissertation Vienna 1933 (unprinted).
• Hilde Schüller: Rottmayr, Johann Michael . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 29 : Rosa – Scheffauer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935, p. 103-105 .
• Hilde Schüller: A nagyszentmiklósi aranykincs ornamentikája. On the ornamentation of the gold treasure from Nagyszentmiklós . In: Archaeologiai Értesítő 50, 1937, pp. 116-131, 217-226
• Hilde Kurz: Italian Models of Hogarth's Picture Stories. In: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 15, 1952, pp. 136-168.
• Hilde and Otto Kurz: A Bibliography of the Writings of Hans Tietze and Erica Tietze-Conrat . In: Essays in honor of Hans Tietze, 1880–1954 . New York 1958, pp. 439-462.
• Hilde and Otto Kurz: The Turkish Dresses in the Costume-Book of Rubens. In: Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 23, 1973, pp. 275–290 ( digitized version ).

literature

• 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. KG Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , p. 398.
• Anna Nyburg: 'Your big letter was an event': the private and professional correspondence of the refugee art historians Hilde and Otto Kurz . In: Andrea Hammel, Anthony Grenville (Eds.): Refugee Archives. Theory and Practice . Rodopi, Amsterdam 2007, pp. 123-139.
• Peter Burke : Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge, 1500-2000 . Brandeis University Press, Waltham, Mass. 2017, ISBN 978-1-5126-0032-2 , p. 197.