Gustav Wittmer

Gustav Karl Wittmer (pseudonym: Karl Heidau ) (born March 31, 1834 , † October 9, 1917 in Kassel ) was a German art historian and writer .

Life

Born as the son of the state landlord at Haydau Monastery , Wittmer studied agriculture after attending high school in Kassel , then art history in Jena , Leipzig , Prague , Berlin , Kiel and Munich . During his studies in 1854 he became a member of the Teutonia Jena fraternity . In Munich he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . He studied in Rome , Florence and Venice . He was a board member and secretary of the Munich Antiquities Association . In 1872 he moved to Kassel, where he was editor of the Hessische Morgenzeitung , the Hessisches Wochenblatt and the magazine Die Erziehungs der Gegenwart. Contribution to solving their tasks was. He was also an employee of the magazine for visual arts , the Bayreuth papers and the art chronicle . From 1886 he was able to live as a private scholar .

Publications (selection)

• Report on the international art exhibition in Munich in 1863. A contribution to the recent history of painting. Dissertation University of Munich 1864. ( Online )
• The naive poetry of our time. Kassel 1868.
• Friedrich Froebel and the education for art. Kassel 1883.
• The Bayreuth Festival, its religious, artistic and national significance. Leipzig 1889.
• Ways and goals of German cultural work. Leipzig 1891.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 729-730.