Leo Balet

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The Civilization of German Art, Literature, and Music in the 18th Century (1936)
Geertgen dead Sint Jans (1910)

Leonard Balet (born June 29, 1878 in Rotterdam ; died June 21, 1965 in New York City ) was a Dutch-German musicologist and art historian.

Life

Leo Balet attended school in the Netherlands and learned the flute in The Hague . He began studying Catholic theology, which he broke off in 1903. Alongside and afterwards he studied philosophy in Warmond and until around 1910 art history in Amsterdam, Paris, Munich and Freiburg im Breisgau. He received his doctorate in 1910 with Franz Friedrich Leitschuh in Freiburg with a dissertation on the painter Geertgen tot Sint Jans . He then worked at the Royal State Trade Museum in Stuttgart in 1911/12 and from 1912 to 1914 as director of the Museum of Applied Arts in Bremen .

In the 1920s he worked as a freelance scientist in Berlin. He joined the Protection Association of German Writers and became a member of the KPD at the end of the decade . After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he fled to Holland. The sociological study on the social conditions of art, published together with Eberhard Rebling in 1936 , was reissued in 1968. In 1937 he gave a lecture at the “2. Congress for Aesthetics and Art History ”in Paris. In 1938 he fled to the USA with his wife, who had worked as a nurse for the years.

In New York, he taught art history and philosophy at Brooklyn College until 1948 and then at the New School for Social Research until 1952 . Balet became impoverished, became mentally ill and died in a New York mental hospital.

Fonts (selection)

  • Roeping . Novel. Dutch. 1903
    • Under the spell of calling . Translation of Else Otten. Munich, 1905
  • (Ed.): Thomas von Kempen : Hofje van rozen . Translation from Latin by Leo Balet. Amsterdam: Bekker, 1907
  • The early Dutchman Geertgen dead Sint Jans . The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1910
  • Ludwigsburg porcelain (figure sculpture) . Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1911
  • Swabian stained glass . Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1912
  • Dietz Edzard . Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt, 1920
  • Leo Balet and E. Gerhard [di Eberhard Rebling ]: The bourgeoisisation of German art, literature and music in the 18th century . Leiden: Heitz, 1936
  • (Ed.): Joseph Haydn : Die Londoner Trios: for two flutes and violoncello . Kassel: Nagels, 1954
  • (Ed.): Johann Sebastian Bach : Sonata in G minor for flute and obbligato harpsichord, BWV 1020 . Kassel: Nagels, 1954
  • Rembrandt and Spinoza . New York, Philosophical Library, 1962

literature

  • Balet, Leo , 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, pp. 25-27

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personal data
SURNAME Balet, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch musicologist and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1965
Place of death New York City