Johannes Gaertner
Johannes Alexander Gaertner (born April 26, 1912 in Berlin ; died January 28, 1996 in Easton, Pennsylvania ) was a German-American art historian .
Life
Johannes Gaertner was the son of an accountant who died in 1937. His mother managed to emigrate from Nazi Germany to Peru in 1941 . Gaertner graduated from the Schillergymnasium Berlin-Lichterfelde in 1930 and studied Christian archeology and church art history in Berlin and Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate in 1936 with a dissertation on Johann Gottfried Herder . He was denied further academic work for racist reasons, and Gaertner emigrated to Peru, where he made his way as a tutor in Sullana and as a bookseller in Lima . In 1941 he married the interior designer Gerda Meyer, who also emigrated, and moved to the USA with her in 1945 . In 1947 he received a teaching position for languages and arts at Lafayette College in Easton (Pennsylvania) and worked there until his retirement in 1977.
Gaertner wrote articles in German and English in specialist journals on topics of aesthetics and philology, and he also published around 200 reviews. He also wrote poems in English, German and Latin .
Works (selection)
- Vox humana . Latin poems. Lunenburg, 1954
- Prism of Democracy: Expression and Self-Criticism in American Painting . Berlin: Hessling, 1961
- Diapason . Poems. Berlin: Hessling, 1962
- Cantus firmus . Latin poems. Lunenburg, 1966
literature
- Gaertner, Johannes , 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, p. 184f.
- Gaertner, Johannes Alexander , 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. 354
- Johannes A. Gaertner Papers 1947–1977 , Lafayette College
Web links
- Literature by and about Johannes Gaertner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Johannes Gaertner in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gaertner, Johannes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gaertner, Johannes Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1996 |
| Place of death | Easton, Pennsylvania |