Johannes Jahn

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Johannes Jahn grave in the south cemetery in Leipzig

Johannes Georg Jahn (born November 22, 1892 in Orlandshof , Province of Posen ; † February 17, 1976 in Leipzig ) was a German art historian .

Career and achievements

After the early death of his father, a manor owner, Johannes Jahn grew up with his stepfather, the painter Wilhelm Schulze-Rose , in Leipzig and attended the sixth class of the König-Albert-Gymnasium there . Then he switched to high school in Dessau . In 1913 he passed his Abitur there and then began studying art history , history and modern philology at the University of Leipzig . In December 1916, August Schmarsow and Adolf Birch-Hirschfeld did his doctorate with a thesis on The Style of the West Windows of Chartres Cathedral . In 1917/18 Jahn took part in the First World War, in 1919 he became a volunteer at the Gemäldegalerie Dresden , in 1920 he was a research assistant at the Art History Institute of Leipzig University. The habilitation took place in 1927 with the writing Contributions to the knowledge of the oldest single-sheet prints . After his habilitation, Jahn became a private lecturer in Leipzig, and in 1934 an extraordinary associate professor. In 1946 he also took over the management of the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig . In 1956 Jahn became a professor with a chair for art history at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig (KMU). From 1952 to 1959 he was also a visiting professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . From 1958 until his retirement in 1962, he also headed the art history institute of the KMU. In 1961 Jahn became a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

Jahn was mainly concerned with art between the High Middle Ages and the early modern period , with sculpture, painting and glass art as well as architecture. He largely wrote the widespread dictionary of art , which was reprinted eight times between 1940 and 2008 by Kröner-Verlag . His work of the same name as Schmarsow Die Bildwerke des Naumburger Doms saw 13 editions. Part of the written estate can be found in the Leipzig State Archives .

Fonts (selection)

  • Composition laws of French relief sculpture in the 12th and 13th centuries. KW Hiersemann, Leipzig 1922 (Research Institute for Art History at the University of Leipzig, Vol. 2)
  • The sculptures of the cathedrals in the north of France. Seemann, Leipzig 1924 (Library of Art History, Vol. 77)
  • Dictionary of Art. Kröner, Leipzig 1940. (continued by Stefanie Lieb )
  • Decorative forms of the Naumburg Cathedral. Recordings by Erich Kirsten. Seemann, Leipzig 1944
  • German Renaissance. Architecture, sculpture, painting / graphics, handicrafts. Seemann, Leipzig 1969
  • Lucas Cranach the Elder Ä. 1472 - 1553. The entire graphic work with examples from the graphic work of Lucas Cranach the Elder. J. and the Cranach workshop. Henschel, Berlin, 1972
  • Artwork, artist, art history. Selected writings by Johannes Jahn. Edited by Ernst Ullmann . Seemann, Leipzig 1982 (Seemann contributions to art history)

literature

  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 316.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ König Albert-Gymnasium (Royal High School until 1900) in Leipzig: Student album 1880-1904 / 05 , Friedrich Gröber, Leipzig 1905
personal data
SURNAME Jahn, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jahn, Johannes Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Orlandshof
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1976
Place of death Leipzig