Leopold Giese

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Leopold Giese (born May 6, 1885 in Halle (Saale) , † December 24, 1968 in Berlin ) was a German art historian .

Life

Leopold Giese is the son of the architect Albert Giese , who ran an architecture office in Halle with his brother Ernst Heinrich Giese and built numerous buildings there. In 1904 Giese passed his matriculation examination at the Latin Secondary School of the Francke Foundations in Halle and then studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich and the Technical University of Charlottenburg from 1904 to 1910 . In 1911 he began his engineering dissertation The Friedrichs-Werdersche Church in Berlin and was from October 1, 1912 to March 31, 1921 research assistant at the Beuth-Schinkel-Museum in Charlottenburg. In 1913 Giese matriculated at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin with a major in art history. In 1917 he did his doctorate at the Technical University of Charlottenburg under Richard Borrmann as a doctoral engineer , where he became an assistant at the chair for art history.

On December 18, 1919, Giese married the art historian Charlotte Cohn-Arenhold, whose grandparents were Jews who had converted to Christianity. The couple remained childless.

1921 Giese at Adolph Goldschmidt at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Berlin with the theme The Medieval churches Goslar Dr. phil. doctorate and was from April 1, 1921 to November 30, 1924 a scientific assistant at the Prussian administration of palaces and gardens in Berlin for the inventory of the Charlottenburg Palace (furniture and art objects). Meanwhile , Giese completed his habilitation in 1924 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin under Adolph Goldschmidt with the font Lettnertypen in Germany during the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries . As a private lecturer, Giese then held his inaugural lecture there on November 8, 1924, on plazas from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, and until 1932 taught mainly in the field of architecture at the Art History Institute of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin.

On June 8, 1932, Giese was appointed associate professor with no civil service . After Giese was initially not asked to leave his wife in order to keep his position, he lost his teaching license on June 17, 1937 due to Section 18 of the Reich Habilitation Regulations on October 1, 1937, because he was " Jewish " and the political attitude of the Wife is objectionable. His colleagues Wilhelm Pinder and Albert Erich Brinckmann unsuccessfully recommended any other use; Intensive attempts to find a job abroad were unsuccessful , despite recommendations from Adolph Goldschmidt in particular . From 1942 to July 1944, Giese received paid work on the "Groß Berlin grave card index", which was initiated by Ernst von Harnack on behalf of the city of Berlin , who was arrested during the events of July 20th. During the last bombing of Berlin on April 21, 1945, Giese's apartment and library were destroyed, so that only rudimentary works have survived.

On January 29, 1946, on the orders of the Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Military Administration of January 8, 1946, Berlin University was reopened and Giese was also appointed as an adjunct professor in the field of general art history and building history. On October 1, 1951, he was appointed professor with a full teaching position and on August 31, 1953, he retired . From 1953 to 1957, when institute directors Richard Hamann and Edgar Lehmann left the university, Giese held teaching positions at Humboldt University.

Fonts

  • The Friedrichs-Werdersche Church in Berlin. (= Schinkel's architectural work, drafts and designs , Volume 1) Berlin 1921. (Dissertation, 160 pages) (Review by Grisebach in: Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 1924 , p. 342; the second volume, “Das alten Museum” has not appeared.)
  • The medieval town churches of Goslar. (Excerpt) In: Yearbook of Dissertations of the Philosophical Faculty Berlin 1920-21. Berlin 1923, p. 166 ff.
  • Article (untitled?) In: Adolf Goldschmidt: The sculptures of Freiberg and Wechselburg. (= Monuments of German Art , Volume 3. <or: Sect. 2, [Section 1, Vol. 1]>) Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft / Cassirer (?), Berlin 1924. (47 pages)
  • Werdersche Markt at the time of the old Werdersche Church. In: Stadtbaukunst in old and new times , 6th year 1925, p. 84 ff.
  • Ludwig Persius as an architect. In: Kunstchronik und Kunstmarkt , 35th year 1925, pp. 361–365.
  • Articles "Apsis, Apside", "Arkade, Arkatur", "Bettelordenskirchen", "Blende" in: Reallexikon zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte.

literature

  • Nicoletta Friday: The Ordinariate Goldschmidt. Teaching, teacher, student. Diploma thesis, Humboldt University Berlin, 1985.
  • Irmtraud Thierse: Exclusion, persecution and expulsion of scholars at the Art History Institute of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin in the time of National Socialism. In: Horst Bredekamp (ed.): In the middle of Berlin - 200 years of art history at the Humboldt University (= Humboldt writings on art and image history. Vol. 12). Berlin 2010, pp. 327–338, here pp. 335 f.
  • Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 1: A – K. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , p. 196 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d CV in the 1921 dissertation.
  2. ^ University archive Humboldt University G 122, Volume 1.
  3. ^ Nicoletta Friday: The Ordinariat Goldschmidt. Teaching, teacher, student. unpublished diploma thesis, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin 1985, p. 36.
  4. ^ Hamburg State Archives, 622-1 Family Goldschmidt g.
  5. ↑ on Adele Charlotte Franziska Cohn-Arenhold see Giese, Charlotte , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographisches Handbuch Deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , p. 195
  6. ^ Nicoletta Friday: The Ordinariat Goldschmidt. Teaching, teacher, student. unpublished diploma thesis, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin 1985, p. 75.
  7. ↑ a b c d e University Archives of the Humboldt University Berlin, G 122, Volume 1.
  8. ↑ a b c University Archives Humboldt University G 122, additional volume.
  9. ^ Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars.
personal data
SURNAME Giese, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1968
Place of death Berlin