Karl Schwarz (art historian)

Karl Schwarz, painting 1916 by Lovis Corinth

Karl Schwarz (born April 22, 1885 in Munich ; died October 22, 1962 in Tel Aviv ) was a German-Israeli art historian.

Life

Karl Schwarz had studied in Munich, Berlin and Heidelberg and received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1915 under Carl Neumann . He was an employee of the magazine Ost und West , co-editor of the art journal Cicerone and editor of the Jewish library of the Fritz Gurlitt publishing house. Schwarz created the Jewish Museum in Berlin in 1933 a few days before the " seizure of power " and was its director for a short time. The foundation of the museum was the previously poorly maintained art collection of the Berlin Jewish Community. To promote the founding of the museum, he founded the Jewish Museum Association , of which Max Liebermann had become honorary president . He had a special friendship with Joseph Oppenheimer and Ernst Oppler . Black was immortalized in a portrait by Oppler and Corinth.

In the summer of 1933, Karl Schwarz emigrated to Palestine , where he was head of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art established by Meir Dizengoff until 1947 .

Publications (selection)

• Augustin Hirschvogel . A German master of the Renaissance , Berlin 1917 (dissertation).
• The graphic work of Lovis Corinth. Gurlitt, Berlin 1922.
• The Jews in Art . With fifty plates in gravure and nine text images, Berlin: Welt-Verlag 1928. 228 p .; Second completely revised and enlarged edition Vienna and Jerusalem: Löwit Verlag 1936, 271 pp.
• Modern Jewish Artists in Palestine , 1941.
• The Hebrew Impact on Western Art , 1950.

literature

• Schwarz, Karl-Israel , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Art Historians in Exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 635-637.
• Chana C. Schütz: From Berlin to Tel Aviv - the life path of the museum director Karl Schwarz . In: Jutta Held (Ed.): Focus: Jewish Art in the 20th Century and the Concepts of Museums (= Art and Politics 6). V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89971-170-X , pp. 65-78.
• Black, Karl. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 19: Sand – Stri. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-22699-1 , pp. 155-159.

Web links

• Short biography for the exhibition Insights - Outlooks, Jewish art historians in Munich