Josepha Weitzmann-Fiedler

Josepha Weitzmann-Fiedler (born June 27, 1904 in Charlottenburg as Josepha Fiedler , † 2000 in Princeton ) was a German-American art historian .

Life

Her father Michael Fiedler, born in Riga , was an architect. Her mother Paulina Fiedler, born in Poland , was one of the first women to study medicine after the turn of the century. She attended the Caecilien School in Berlin-Charlottenburg and passed her school-leaving examination in 1925 at the Fürstin-Bismarck-Schule in Berlin-Charlottenburg. From the winter semester 1925/26 to the summer semester 1930, Fiedler studied art history and classical archeology as major subjects, history and philosophy as minor subjects at the University of Berlin . She was a student of Adolph Goldschmidt and received her doctorate from him in 1930 with the thesis: "The representation of nudes in painting from the beginning of antiquity to the end of the Romanesque style" (published in 1933).

From 1930 to September 1931 she was Ferdinand Noack's assistant at the archaeological seminar at the University of Berlin and curator of the university museum. From 1931 to 1938 she then worked as assistant to Gerhart Rodenwaldt at the Archaeological Seminar of the University of Berlin and as an employee at the Archaeological Institute of the German Empire in Berlin under Friedrich Matz . In 1932 she married Kurt Weitzmann . In 1938 she followed her husband and emigrated to America. From 1951 she was Paul Frankl's assistant at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

She supported her husband in all of his research and travels, but continued to work as an art historian herself.

Fonts

• The representation of nudes in painting from the end of antiquity to the end of the Romanesque style (with special consideration of miniature painting). Heitz, Strasbourg 1933 ( digitized version ).
• Romanesque engraved bronze bowls. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-87157-083-4 .

literature

• Kurt Weitzmann : Sailing with Byzantium from Europe to America. The Memoirs of an Art Historian. Edition Maris, Munich 1994.
• Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 2: L – Z. KG Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 742-743.

Web links

• Literature by and about Josepha Weitzmann-Fiedler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Estate of Kurt Weitzmann and Josepha Weitzmann-Fiedler with biography and bibliography