Josef Paul Hodin

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Josef Paul Hodin , also JP Hodin, (born August 17, 1905 in Prague , Austria-Hungary ; died December 6, 1995 in London ) was a Czechoslovak-British author, art critic and art historian.

Life

Josef Paul Hodin was a son of the photographer Edouard Hodin and Rosa Klug, he had two sisters. His parents were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942 and murdered.

Hodin completed his one-year military service, studied law at the Charles University in Prague and received his doctorate in 1924. From 1931 to 1933 he studied art at the Dresden Art Academy and the Berlin Art Academy . He wrote the novel Stranger Stairs . His novel The Murderer was honored by the Prague German Society of Sciences and Arts for the Czechoslovak Republic. The novel Die Brühlsche Terrasse was also to appear in Germany by Kiepenheuer , which was prevented by the Nazis' takeover in 1933.

In 1933 Hodin emigrated to France and in early 1935 came to Sweden, where he married the Wigman student Birgit Åkesson , whom he had met in Dresden. Hodin then married Doris Pamela Simms in 1945, they had two children, Annabel Hodin is a British stylist . In the summer of 1938 he visited Edvard Munch in Norway and began to work on his monograph on the artist. Another exchange was prevented by the German occupation of Norway . The work was published in 1948 in Swedish and a German translation. Hodin wrote several other art historical writings in Swedish.

Munch (1948)

After 1939 he worked in Stockholm as an informant for the Czechoslovak government- in- exile in London. In 1942 he was therefore arrested by the Swedes and sentenced to imprisonment. Edvard Beneš arranged for his release from prison, and in 1944 the British took him to Great Britain on a plane from neutral Sweden. In London he worked as a press attaché for the Czechoslovak government-in-exile at the Norwegian government-in-exile .

After the end of the war he studied art history at the Courtauld Institute in London in 1946 . Hodin was director of studies at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London from 1949 to 1954 , he specialized in contemporary art and wrote a variety of books and magazine articles. He had a special friendship with Oskar Kokoschka . In 1954 he received the Art Critique Prize at the Venice Biennale for his work on Surrealism and Francis Bacon . In 1956 he was co-editor of the Brussels art magazine Quadrum and was co-editor of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism . He was a member of the board of directors of the British Society of Aesthetics .

His estate is in the archives of the Tate Gallery .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

Paul Berger-Bergner (1974)
  • Sven Erixson . Stockholm: A.-B. Svensk literature, 1940
  • Ernst Josephson , malningar: ur privata samlingar . Stockholm: St. Lucas Gallery, 1942
  • Jan Amos Comenius and vår tid . Stockholm: Bonnier, 1944
  • Edvard Munch: Nordens genius . Stockholm: Ljus, 1948
    • Edvard Munch: the genius of the north . Stockholm: New Publisher, 1948 (1963)
  • Isaac Grünewald . Stockholm, 1949
  • Henry Moore . Translation by Hans Georg Schürmann. Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1956
  • The Dilemma of Being Modern: Essays on Art and Literature . London: 1956
  • Ben Nicholson : the Meaning of his Art . London: A. Tiranti, 1957
  • Barbara Hepworth . London: Lund Humphries, 1961
  • Commitment to Kokoschka: memories and interpretations . Berlin: Kupferberg, 1963
  • Oskar Kokoschka: The Artist and His Time: A Biographical Study. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1966
  • Kafka and Goethe: On the problems of our age . Hamburg: Christians, 1968
  • The Brühl Terrace . Novel. Hamburg: Christians, 1969
  • Oskar Kokoschka: a psychography . Vienna: Europe, 1971
  • Modern Art and the Modern Mind . Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University, 1972
  • Ludwig Meidner  : his art, his personality, his time . Darmstadt: Justus-von-Liebig-Verlag, 1973
  • Paul Berger-Bergner - Life and Work . Hamburg: Christians, 1974
  • Traces and ways. Life and work of the painter Hilde Goldschmidt . Hamburg: Christians, 1974 ISBN 3-7672-0231-X
  • This little mother has claws: the story of a youth in Prague . Autobiography. Hamburg: Christians, 1985
  • Lost Existences. Narratives . Illustrations by Hans Escher . Hamburg: Christians, 1987
  • FK Gotsch . Oil paintings. Hamburg 1987

literature

  • Josef Paul Hodin , in: Jürgen Serke : Bohemian villages. Wanderings through a deserted literary landscape . Vienna: Paul Zsolnay, 1987 ISBN 3-552-03926-0 , pp. 456-459
  • Hodin, Josef Paul , 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. 523f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

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personal data
SURNAME Hodin, Josef Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak-British art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1995
Place of death London