Kurt Gerstenberg
Kurt Gerstenberg (born July 23, 1886 in Chemnitz , † November 2, 1968 in Würzburg ) was a German art historian.
Life
Gerstenberg was born in Chemnitz in 1886 as the son of a businessman. He attended the Kaiser Wilhelm High School in Hanover and studied art history in Berlin from 1905 to 1912. In 1912 (other sources: 1913 in Berlin) he received his doctorate under Heinrich Wölfflin in Munich, where he introduced the term German special Gothic with his dissertation , assuming a national demarcation. This also applies to his artist biographies.
An assistant at the Art History Institute of the University of Munich from 1912 to 1914 was called up for military service. In 1919 Gerstenberg completed his habilitation at the University of Halle ; the habilitation thesis was entitled Claude Lorrain and the types of ideal landscape painting . Following a teaching assignment in 1921, he taught as an associate professor in Halle from 1924, interrupted by an intermezzo at the University of Kiel , where he held a substitute professorship from 1932 to 1934.
After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he joined the NSDAP in March 1933 . Gerstenberg returned to Halle in 1934, where he taught until 1937 (other sources: 1937 to 1940). He was then a full professor at the University of Würzburg until his release in 1945 .
In 1949 Gerstenberg was hired again and taught until 1954 as a professor for Middle and Modern Art History in Würzburg.
Publications (selection)
- as author of the introduction: Claude Lorrain . Landscape drawings , Woldemar Klein, Baden-Baden 1952
- Modern art. In: The information. A collection of lexically arranged reference books on all branches of science, art and technology with the collaboration of first experts [...]. Frankfurt am Main 1920–1931, issue 4.
Web links
- Literature by and about Kurt Gerstenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Kurt Gerstenberg in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kurt Gerstenberg
- ↑ a b Kurt Gerstenberg
- ↑ See Daniela Bode: Art history as physiognomic science: Critique of a figure of thought from the 1920s to 1940s. 2012 [1]
- ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 180.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gerstenberg, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd November 1968 |
| Place of death | Wurzburg |