Johannes Kurzwelly

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Johannes Kurzwelly (* 1867 in Leipzig ; † September 17, 1922 there ) was a German art historian .

Johannes Kurzwelly was the son of the Chemnitz doctor Martin Liberatus Kurzwelly (1831–1882) and his wife Thekla Caecilie, nee. Heinig. He had three brothers and a sister. His brother Albrecht (1868–1917) was also an art historian and from 1895 worked at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Leipzig and from 1901 until his death director of the City History Museum in Leipzig. His brother Ludwig was a doctor.

Johannes Kurzwelly attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig . He was self-taught in the field of art history, but acquired an outstanding art history education and was very gifted with languages. From the beginning he was an employee of the editorial staff of the General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present in Leipzig, the first volume of which appeared in 1907, and remained so until his death. He wrote numerous entries for the lexicon, drawn as “–y.” Or “J. Kurzwelly ".

Kurzwelly was in possession of a fragment of a poor Bible , on which he published a short treatise.

Fonts (selection)

  • Selwyn Brinton: Mantua (= Famous Art Places No. 37). Translated by Johannes Kurzwelly. Seemann, Leipzig 1937
  • Fragment from the oldest German Poor Bible manuscript. In: Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst. New series 20, 1909, pp. 22–28 ( digitized version ).
  • Buffalmacco and Traini questions. A few asides on Pèleo Bacci's Buffalmacco publication. In: Reptertory for Art History. 35, 1912, pp. 337-362 ( digitized version ).
  • Bibliografic̆̌eskije listki: russkije portrety Fridricha Tischbejna. In: Straryjegody St. Petersburg March 1913.
  • From the hospitable pastor and his forerunners. In: magazine for book lovers. New series 10, 1919, pp. 278-280 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Family tree of the Kurzwelly family. Leipzig 1917, OCLC 72618923 ( archiv.sachsen.de ).
  • Belated exposure of a crime of artist envy. A small addendum to the Oeser biography. In: The Leipziger. Illustrated weekly for Leipzig and its surroundings. 4, 1922, p. 10.

literature

  • The Cicerone. Semi-monthly publication for the interests of the art researcher and collector. 14, 1922, p. 844 ( digitized version ).
  • Central literary journal for Germany. 73, 1922, p. 79.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Margarethe Friedemann-Soller: The Kurzwelly's See Poor Bible Fragment . In: The Munich manuscripts of the Biblia Pauperum . Erfurt 1921, p. 28 . Text archive - Internet Archive
personal data
SURNAME Kurzwelly, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1922
Place of death Leipzig