Hugo Buchthal

Hugo Buchthal (born August 11, 1909 in Berlin ; died November 10, 1996 in London ) was a German-British art historian .

Life

Hugo Buchthal was one of three children of the Berlin merchant Eugen Buchthal (1878–1954) and Thea Wolff (1886–1968), they lived in the Westend of Berlin in the "Haus Buchthal" built in 1922 in the expressionist style . After graduating from the Herder Reform Gymnasium in 1927, he first studied economics and in 1929 switched to art history, which he studied in Paris, Heidelberg and Berlin. He went to Fritz Saxl , Edgar Wind and Erwin Panofsky in Hamburg, where they researched and taught in the Warburg Library .

Buchthal received his doctorate in Hamburg in 1933 with the dissertation Codex Parisinus Graecus 139 . After seizing power , he moved to London with the Warburg Group in 1934, and his parents and siblings also had to emigrate.

From 1935 to 1937 he stayed at the University of Beirut and in 1938 was a Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . He returned to England and worked from 1941 to 1943 as a librarian at the Warburg Library, which had been relocated to Denham due to the war.

Buchthal subsequently held a number of teaching positions and visiting professorships at London University (1944/1945), in Dumbarton Oaks (1950/51 and 1965), at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1959-1960) and Columbia University (1963 ). Buchthal was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1970 and 1971 . In 1959 he became a member ( fellow ) of the British Academy .

From 1960 to 1965 he was a professor at the Warburg Institute and from 1965 to 1975 at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University . He researched the medieval miniatures on the saga of Troy, Byzantine painting and the cultural exchange between Orient and Occident in the Middle Ages. In 1957 he published his main work Miniature Painting in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem .

Buchthal had been married to Amalia "Maltschi" Serkin (1904–1996), a sister of the pianist Rudolf Serkin , since 1939 ; they had a daughter.

Fonts (selection)

• Codex Parisinus Graecus 139 . Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 1933
• The Miniatures of the Paris Psalter: a Study in Middle Byzantine Painting . London: The Warburg Institute, 1938
• A Hand List of Illuminated Oriental Christian Manuscripts . London: The Warburg Institute, 1942
• The Western Aspects of Gandhara Sculpture. Annual Lecture on Aspects of Art, Henriette Hertz Trust of the British Academy, Proceedings of the British Academy, 1945 . London: British Academy, 1947
• Miniature Painting in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957
• Historia Troiana: Studies in the History of Mediaeval Secular Illustration . London: Warburg Institute, 1971
• Patronage in Thirteenth-century Constantinople: an Atelier of Late Byzantine Book Illumination and Calligraphy . Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, 1978
• The "sample book" of Wolfenbüttel and its position in the art of the Thirteenth Century . Vienna: Verl. D. Austrian Akad. D. Wiss., 1979
• Hugo Buchthal: Personal memories of an eighty-year-old of his studies with Panofsky in Hamburg , in: Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, 1991, pp. 205–213
• Hugo Buchthal: Personal memories of the first years of the Warburg Institute in London , in: Wiener Jahrbuch, 1992, pp. 213–221

literature

• Buchthal, Hugo , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Art Historians in Exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, pp. 73-76
• Buchthal, Hugo Herbert , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 166
• John Lowden: Hugo Herbert Buchthal, 1909–1996 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 105 , 2000, pp. 309-336 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

Web links

• Literature by and about Hugo Buchthal in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Hugo Buchthal in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 11, 2020 .