Kurt Karl Eberlein

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Kurt Karl Eberlein (born August 15, 1890 in Rastatt ; † 1944/1945 on the Eastern Front?) Was a German art historian who was close to the National Socialist ideology.

Career

From 1908, Eberlein studied art history, archeology , Egyptology and literature in Heidelberg, Munich and Bonn. From 1910 he continued his studies at the University of Halle under Adolph Goldschmidt , who he followed in 1912 to Berlin at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . In 1916, while serving in the war, he received his doctorate from Goldschmidt .

In 1919 Eberlein became a research assistant at the Badische Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe . In 1923 he took part in a commemorative publication for Adolph Goldschmidt's 60th birthday. In autumn 1925 he switched to Reichskunstwart Edwin Redslob in Berlin as a consultant for German craft culture . On November 1, 1929, he wrote an obituary for Aby Warburg for the Berliner Tageblatt .

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In 1933 Eberlein wrote “Was ist deutsch in der Deutschen Kunst” (What is German in German Art ”) , in which he wages his fight“ against everything anational, anti-national, international in German art ”. With recourse to Herder, Goethe, Fichte and Spengler, he also propagated a party for National Socialism and a new German art beyond Expressionism. "Kurt Karl Eberlein speaks [...] of the typical German" horror art ", which he contrasts with the romantic jewelery art ." At the same time, he advocated a new type of art historian: "The art historian is not a specialist, but a national personality, Seer, interpreter, interpreter at the same time, not the connoisseur of the art market but the connoisseur of the artistic spirit, the national art and life values ​​” . Eberlein professed aggressively and radically to the ideas of National Socialism.

From 1933 he worked as a freelance writer, and he did not seek a museum career either.

Eberlein published among other things on the Nazarenes , as well as the German Romanticism and its main representative Caspar David Friedrich . In 1939 his book Caspar David Friedrich - The Landscape Painter was published. A folk book of German art in which he used his painting for his national art history.

During the Second World War Eberlein wrote articles for the Leipziger Illustrirte Zeitung ( The Sacrifice. On the Day of Heroes' Remembrance , March 1943; Arno Breker , August 1944). In 1944/1945 Eberlein was probably lost on the Eastern Front.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The German literary history of art in the 18th century - a contribution to the history of art history. Dissertation . Müller, Karlsruhe 1919.
  2. ^ Kurt Karl Eberlein: Johann Friedrich Böhmer and the art history of the Nazarenes. In: Festschrift for A. Goldschmidt on his 60th birthday on January 15, 1923. Leipzig 1923.
  3. ↑ Kurt Karl Eberlein on "German Art" ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 1933. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / residence.aec.at
  4. ↑ Mathias Schreiber, Ulrike Knöfel: Between the forest and Walhalla. In: Der Spiegel . September 27, 2004.
  5. ^ Kurt Karl Eberlein: What is German in German Art? (= Writings on the German view of life. Volume 1). EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, pp. 7-10.
  6. ^ Kurt Karl Eberlein: What is German in German Art? 1934, p. 7.
  7. ^ Elisabeth Kraus (Ed.): The University of Munich in the Third Reich: Essays. Volume 2, Herbert Utz Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8316-0726-6 , p. 156.
personal data
SURNAME Eberlein, Kurt Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Rastatt
DATE OF DEATH 1944 or 1945
Place of death Eastern Front