Kurt Steinbart

Kurt Steinbart (born September 19, 1890 in Groß-Lichterfelde near Berlin ; † April 6, 1981 in Rome ) was professor of art history at the University of Marburg and a staunch National Socialist .

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Steinbart was the son of the Berlin banker and art collector Karl Steinbart (1852-1923). He took part in the First World War. In 1920 he received his doctorate in art history on the painter Jacob Cornelisz von Amsterdam at the University of Greifswald . From 1920 to 1922 he was commander of a free corps association in the West Prignitz district (Escherich organization). He belonged to the steel helmet . In 1922/23 Steinbart was an art dealer with van Diemen in Berlin, where he also traveled a lot in Europe. From 1928 he worked after his habilitation in Marburg, from winter semester 1934/35 with a teaching position for Dutch art history. Steinbart was a member of the NSDAP and the SA . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . In 1936 he became ao. Professor and in 1939 adjunct professor for art history. One of his students is Günther Schiedlausky , who led the way in organizing art theft in Europe. In 1939 Steinbart was called up for military service. From 1945 he lived in Rome as a private scholar. In addition to Dutch art history of the 17th century, he dealt with German late Gothic.

Publications

• Johann Liss . the painter from Holstein. German Association for Art History, Berlin 1940.
• Konrad von Soest . Schroll, Vienna 1946.
• Masaccio , Vienna: Schroll 1948

literature

• Anne Christine Nagel (ed.): The Philipps University of Marburg in National Socialism. Documents on their history (= contributions to the history of the Philipps University of Marburg. Vol. 7 = Pallas Athene. Contributions to the history of the university and science. Vol. 1). Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07653-0 .
• Michael H. Sprenger: Richard Hamann and the Marburg art history between 1933 and 1945. In: Jutta Held , Martin Papenbrock (ed.): Focus: Art history at the universities during National Socialism (= art and politics. Yearbook of the Guernica Society. Vol. 5, 2003). V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89971-118-1 , pp. 61–91, here p. 70.
• Hans-Joachim Kunst u. a .: The history of the art history seminar 1933–1945, in: Kai Köhler u. a .: German studies and art studies in the "Third Reich", Academia Marburgensis 10, KG Saur 2005, p. 53/54 (with photo)

Web links

• Literature by and about Kurt Steinbart in the catalog of the German National Library