Karl Hermann Usener
Karl Hermann Usener (born August 19, 1905 in Charlottenburg ; † October 30, 1970 in Marburg / Lahn ) was a German art historian and university professor.
Life
Usener was a son of Karl Albert Hermann Usener and his wife Cornelie, geb. Schmidt from Essen. His grandfather was the classical philologist and religious scholar Hermann Usener . After attending the secondary school in Marburg, he studied art history at the Philipps University there . With a thesis on Reiner Huy and his artistic successor he was in 1929 when Richard Hamann summa cum laude to the Dr. phil. PhD. He then worked as an art historian, initially in Frankfurt am Main, and from 1935 in Munich. In 1939 he completed his habilitation in Munich with Hans Jantzen with a thesis on book painting at the Maasschule and in 1940 was appointed lecturer at the Ludwig Maximilians University . In 1953 he followed a call to the chair for art history at the University of Marburg, where he was also director of the art history seminar and the Marburg research institute for art history. His research and teaching activities focused on medieval goldsmithing and book illumination.
Karl Hermann Usener succumbed to a heart condition shortly after his retirement in 1970.
estate
Part of the estate is in the Central Institute for Art History in Munich.
Publications
- Reiner von Huy and his artistic successor. A contribution to the history of goldsmith sculpture in the Meuse valley in the 12th century . In: Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 7 (1933) (also Marburg: phil. Diss., 1929)
literature
- Obituary by Carl Graepler in: Das Münster. Journal for Christian Art and Art History 23 (1970), p. 411
- Studies in book illumination and goldsmithing in the Middle Ages. Festschrift for Karl Hermann Usener on his 60th birthday on Aug. 19, 1965 . Edited by Frieda Dettweiler. Marburg an der Lahn 1967
Individual evidence
Web links
- Usener, Karl Hermann. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Usener, Karl Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin-Charlottenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 30, 1970 |
| Place of death | Marburg / Lahn |