Kurt Freyer

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Kurt Gerschom Freyer (born May 25, 1885 in Angerapp ; died May 24, 1973 in Kfar Szold , Israel ) was a German-Israeli art historian and antiquarian .

Life

Kurt Freyer studied philosophy and art history in Berlin, Göttingen and Munich and received his doctorate in Munich. He then worked as an author of exhibition catalogs and as a reviewer . 1911 assistant to Karl Ernst Osthaus at the Folkwang Museum in Hagen with contacts to Emil Nolde , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Ernst Barlach . 1912 Assistant to Max Sauerlandt at the Museum of Art and Industry in Halle . Since April 1, 1914, assistant to Ernst Sauermann at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Flensburg . After serving in the war, he applied as Sauermann's successor in 1920, but as a Jew and as a Marxist he had no chance. Freyer went to Berlin, in 1922 he married Anna Heymann (1886–1971), daughter of a Mannheim cigar manufacturer. In 1923 he became a co-owner of the antiquarian bookshop Utopia, Berlin , which u. a. specialized in miniature books.

In March 1933 he emigrated first to Amsterdam , in 1937 to Palestine , where he initially joined the kibbutz movement. In the 1940s he became a member of an illegal communist party cell in Tel Aviv and a German-speaking "Circle for Progressive Culture" and gave lectures on Marxist theory, the social function of art and political aspects of literary history. For the festschrift for the 80th birthday of the philosopher Georg Lukács he wrote an essay "The rise of reason."

Fonts (selection)

  • Catalog of the exhibition organized by the Mannheimer Altertumsverein on the occasion of its 50th anniversary ... of works of small portrait art and decorative arts products from the period 1700-1850 , Altertumsverein, Mannheim 1909 (149 pages)
  • Guide to the collection of recent paintings and sculptures. Ed .: Municipal Museum for Art and Applied Arts Halle an der Saale. Halle (Saale), Gebauer-Schwetschke. 1913. 80 p. With works by Emil Nolde , Max Slevogt , Theo von Brockhusen , Waldemar Rösler , Max Beckmann , Lovis Corinth and others
  • The sculptor Ernst Barlach , In: Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstkalender 1916, pp. 50–59.
  • Spinoza , leader of the erring. Commemorative publication on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Spinoza's death on February 21, 1927. Horodisch & Marx, Berlin 1927
  • The rise of reason , in: Frank Benseler (Ed.), Festschrift for the eightieth birthday of Georg Lukács, Neuwied-Bonn 1965, pp. 211–236.

literature

  • Freyer, Kurt , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, p. 159f.
  • Freyer, Kurt , in: Joseph Walk : Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 102

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, Die Barlach Reception in Flensburg, in: Elisabeth Laur and Volker Probst (eds.), Ernst Barlach, ways and changes, Flensburg / Ribe 2002, p. 89f.
  2. ↑ Walter Grab, My Four Lives, Memory Artist, Emigrant, Jacobin Researcher, Democrat, Cologne 1999.
personal data
SURNAME Freyer, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freyer, Kurt Gerschom (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli art historian and antiquarian
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Rapped
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1973
Place of death Kfar Szold , Israel