Karl Giehlow

Karl Giehlow (actually Johann Carl Friedrich Giehlow; born May 25, 1863 in Oppeln , † March 3, 1913 in Auteuil , today Paris ) was a German art historian .

Life

Giehlow began studying law in Kiel , but then studied art history with Herman Grimm in Berlin . He spent a large part of his life in Vienna.

Albrecht Dürer was at the center of Giehlow's research . His work on his engraving Melencolia I is regarded as the beginning of the scientific examination of the motif.

Works

Critical presentation of the research on the genesis of the prayer book of Emperor Maximilian I. Dissertation, Berlin 1898.
Emperor Maximilian I's prayer book with drawings by Albrecht Dürer and other artists . Vienna 1907.
The hieroglyphs customer of the Humanism in the allegory of the Renaissance especially Ehrenpforte Emperor Maximilian I . Vienna 1915.

literature

Wilhelm Mrazek: Giehlow, Johann Carl Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 371 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Literature by and about Karl Giehlow in the catalog of the German National Library
Karl Giehlow † , obituary in the journal of the North Bohemian Trade Museum

Individual evidence

^ Dürer's engraving Melencolia I and the Maximilian Humanist Circle. In: Communications from the Society for the Reproductive Art. Vol. 26, No. 2, 1903, pp. 29-41; Vol. 27, No. 3, 1904, pp. 6-18; Vol. 27, No. 4, 1904, pp. 57-78.

↑ Hartmut Böhme : The literary reception history of Dürer's engraving Melancholia I . In: Jörg Schönert, Harro Segeberg (Hrsg.): Polyperspektiven in der literary Moderne. Studies on the theory, history and impact of literature. Dedicated to Karl Robert Mandelkow. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1988, pp. 83–123 (= Hamburg Contributions to German Studies. Vol. 1; online ( memento of the original from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , PDF, 261 kB). @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Giehlow, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Giehlow, Carl; Giehlow, Johann Carl Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH	May 25, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Opole
DATE OF DEATH	March 3, 1913
Place of death	Auteuil , today Paris

[1] Dürer's engraving Melencolia I and the Maximilian Humanist Circle. In: Communications from the Society for the Reproductive Art. Vol. 26, No. 2, 1903, pp. 29-41; Vol. 27, No. 3, 1904, pp. 6-18; Vol. 27, No. 4, 1904, pp. 57-78.