Keith Andrews (art historian)

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Keith Andrews (born October 11, 1920 in Hamburg ; † April 4, 1989 in Edinburgh , Scotland ), born Kurt H. Aufrichtig , was a British art historian of German origin.

Keith Andrews

Life

Andrew's father was Max Aufrichtig (1879–1950), born in Breslau , and his mother, the opera singer Sabine Kalter (1889–1957). He emigrated with his parents to England in 1934 before the persecution of the National Socialists .

From England, Andrew's parents sent Andrews to the Netherlands, where he attended the Eerde Quaker School . At the age of 17, he developed polio . This did not allow him to attend university and made him dependent on walking aids for the rest of his life. Andrews took a job at the Seligman brothers' second-hand bookshop in London and attended evening lectures at the Courtauld Institute of Art , where he received his diploma in 1953.

job

Andrews began his career in 1955 as the curator of Liverpool City Libraries. From 1958 he worked as curator and chief curator at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh and was director of the graphic collection there. Here he mainly worked on the stock of Dutch, German and Italian drawings. In addition, he made significant contributions to the study of the history of European painting and drawing. Here are the in particular its fundamental Publications Rome make Frankfurt painter Adam Elsheimer to name (1578-1610), as well as the as the Nazarene designated, working in Rome, German painter of the 19th century.

In 1989 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

Publications (selection)

  • The Nazarenes. A Brotherhood of German Painters in Rome , London 1964.
  • The Elsheimers inventory and other documents . In: The Burlington Magazine , 114, 1972, pp. 595-600.
  • A pseudo Elsheimer group: Adriaen van Stalbemt as figure painter . In: The Burlington Magazine , 115, 1973, pp. 301-306.
  • Elsheimer and Dürer : an attempt towards a clarification of Elsheimer's early work . In: Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst , 24, 1973, pp. 159–174.
  • Adam Elsheimer. Paintings-Drawings-Prints , Oxford 1977. Revised German edition: Adam Elsheimer. Catalog raisonné of paintings, drawings and etchings . Munich 1985.

literature

  • Christopher White: Obituaries: Keith Andrews . In: The Burlington Magazine , Vol. 131, No. 1039, October 1989, pp. 706-708, JSTOR 883994

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christopher White: Obituaries: Keith Andrews . In: The Burlington Magazine , Vol. 131, No. 1039, October 1989, pp. 706-708, JSTOR 883994
  2. ↑ shaper RSE Fellows 1783-2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Andrews, Keith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sincerely, Kurt H. (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British art historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1989
Place of death Edinburgh , Scotland