Karl Freund (art scholar)

Karl Freund (born July 9, 1882 in Nussloch ; † August 25, 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German art historian .

Life

Karl Freund first studied law, then German , art history and anthropology in Heidelberg , Munich , Berlin and Freiburg im Breisgau . After receiving his doctorate in art history in Munich in 1906, he volunteered at the Grand Ducal Hessian State Museum in 1910 . From 1914 he did military service during the First World War and was later taken prisoner by Russia. After the end of the war he was curator at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt from 1919 . As a result of the National Socialist seizure of power , he was dismissed as a non-Aryan in 1933 . In 1938 he was deported to Buchenwald concentration camp . In 1941 the emigration failed. In March 1943 he was arrested and taken to the round tower prison in Darmstadt . He was finally abducted from Frankfurt Central Station to the Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered.

Wall and panel painting in the Munich art zone at the end of the Middle Ages . Darmstadt 1906, OCLC 471875294 (also dissertation, Munich 1906).
as editor with Rudolf Schrey: Drawings from the Kupferstichkabinett of the Hessisches Landesmuseum zu Darmstadt . Frankfurt am Main 1928–1929, OCLC 270104155 .

Gisela Bergsträsser (Ed.): Researching the meaning of art, texts from the estate of Karl Freund . Darmstadt 1988, ISBN 3-87390-091-2 .
Peter Märker: Karl Freund , in: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt , 2006, p. 272, ISBN 3-8062-1930-3 .
Elisabeth Krimmel (Ed.): Karl Freund, 1882–1943. A Jewish art scholar in Darmstadt. Life and work . Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-921434-32-1 .
Freund, Karl , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical manual of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, p. 157f.