Lothar Brieger

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Lothar Brieger-Wasservogel (born September 6, 1879 in Zwickau ; died March 23, 1949 in West Berlin ) was a German journalist and art historian .

Life

Lothar Brieger-Wasservogel was the son of an optician. In his childhood the family moved to Berlin.

Brieger was a supporter of Theodor Herzl and wrote the Zionist novel René Richter in 1902 , in which the protagonist describes the pogrom of Kishinev in 1903 with undisguised harshness. Since 1914 he worked as an art critic for the BZ am Mittag and the Vossische Zeitung . He wrote standard works on art and worked for the Ullstein publishing house .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he emigrated to Shanghai , his wife Martha, who did not feel affected by the persecution of the Jews, stayed in Germany. In the Shanghai ghetto , Brieger ran an antique dealership. He wrote for the Shanghai Morning Post and for English language newspapers. After the war in Asia he emigrated to Italy and from there came back to Berlin.

Fonts (selection)

German painter (1903)
The genre painting (1922)

until 1914 as Lothar Brieger-Wasservogel

  • The great art collectors . Grote, Berlin 1931.
  • The female face of the present. F. Enke, Stuttgart 1930.
  • The painter of Marie Antoinette: A novel from the dying Rococo. [Kunst Kammer] M. Wasservogel, Berlin [1927].
  • Romantic painting: an introduction to its essence and works. German Book Association, Berlin [1926].
  • A Century of German First Editions. The most important first and original editions from around 1750 to around 1880 . Edited by the Swiss authors by Hans Bloesch . Julius Hoffmann Verlag, Stuttgart 1925. Reprinted in 1988.
  • The golden age of French illustration. B. Harz, Berlin [1924].
  • The watercolor: its history and its masters. Publisher f. Art history, Berlin [1923].
  • The genre painting: the development of bourgeois painting . Delphin-Verlag, Munich 1922.
  • EM lilies . An artistic development around the turn of the century. B. Harz, Berlin 1922.
  • From the quiet cities of the Mark Brandenburg: 142 images based on nature photographs with introductory text. Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin [1921].
  • The pastel: its history and its masters. Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin [1921].
  • The miniature. Holbein-Verlag, Munich [1921].
  • The silhouette. Holbein-Verlag, Munich 1921.
  • Hans Meid . Neue Kunsthandlung, Berlin 1921.
  • Lesser Ury . Neue Kunsthandlung, Berlin 1921.
  • Theodor Hosemann  : An old master of Berlin painting. With a catalog of the artist's graphic works by Karl Hobrecke. Delphin-Verlag, Munich 1920.
  • Theodor Hosemann: The painter of the Berlin people . With 40 pictures. Delphin-Verlag, Munich 1920.
  • The Path to Self: A Book of Self-Education. Iso-Verlag, Eisleben 1919.
  • The rebirth of religious feeling: also a consideration of time. Iso-Verlag, Eisleben 1919.
  • Ludwig Meidner  : With a self-biography of the artist. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1919.
  • The Art Collecting: A Brief Introduction to Its Theory and Practice. Dedicated to Nobert Falk . Delphin-Verlag, Munich 1917.
  • Old master of German painting. Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1913.
  • Love player: About worldview and the art of war of women favorites. Basch, Berlin-Wilmersdorf [1913].
  • Intercourse with women. Lammers, Munich [1911].
  • Hellas: an excerpt from the Greek world of thought . Stuttgart 1909.
  • People who are different. Novellas . Hillger, Berlin [1908].
  • René Richter. The development of a modern Jew. Novel in three books in one volume . R. Schröder, Berlin 1906.
  • Plato and Aristotle . Dedicated to Bruno von Herber-Rohow . Leipzig 1905.
  • Auguste Rodin: a study . Dedicated to Käthe Münzer . Strasbourg 1903.
  • German painters: six portraits . Strasbourg 1903.
  • Max Klinger . Dedicated to Herman Grimm . Hermann Seemann Nachf., Leipzig 1902.

literature

Fiction
  • Ursula Krechel : Shanghai far from where. Novel . Young and Young, Salzburg / Vienna 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angela Gutzeit: A Human Missing , Review, in: Friday , February 19, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Brieger, Lothar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brieger-Wasservogel, Lothar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1949
Place of death West Berlin