Lotte Brand Philip

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Lotte Brand Philip (photo without author, undated)
Examination of the Ghent Altarpiece (1971)
Albrecht Dürer's parents (1480). Photo montage to a diptych

Lotte Brand Philip (born May 27, 1910 in Altona ; died May 2, 1986 in New York City ) was a German-American art historian.

Life

Lotte Johanna Friederike Brand was the daughter of the shipowner Friedrich Wilhelm Brand and Anna Majud. Her father died in 1913 and the mother continued to run the shipping company. She was murdered in the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1943 .

Brand studied art history, archeology and history at the Technical University of Munich , at the University of Heidelberg and with Erwin Panofsky at the University of Hamburg . She wrote her dissertation in 1937 at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau with Kurt Bauch on Stefan Lochner's altar of the city patron .

Otto H. Förster arranged for her to do an internship at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in 1938 , and in 1940 she was employed by the Kölnischer Kunstverein . Since she had to expect disadvantages because of her membership in Judaism, she entered into a marriage of convenience with the Hamburg lawyer Herbert L. Philip (1909–1988) in 1941, and both emigrated to the USA via separate detours and immediately dissolved their marriage again. She arrived in the USA in 1941 on the Japanese emigrant ship Hikawa Maru .

In Providence , she found a job in a jewelry factory and rose to become a dress jewelry designer. From 1953 she was also active in research again and in 1955 published a monograph on Hieronymus Bosch . Through the mediation of William S. Heckscher , she was invited to a one-year guest professorship in the Netherlands in 1957. In 1959/60 she held a guest seminar on Hieronymus Bosch at Bryn Mawr College and at the New School for Social Research . In 1960, through the mediation of Horst W. Janson, she was given a permanent lectureship at New York University , and in 1961 her 25-year career began as a lecturer, from 1969 as a professor and from 1980 as an emerita at Queens College in New York. One of their students was Gary Schwartz . In 1970 she married Otto H. Förster (1894–1975).

Brand Philip worked on Jan van Eyck , Albrecht Dürer and Hieronymus Bosch . She made a name for herself by asking new questions. So she made sure that the picture of Dürer's father that hangs in the Uffizi was accompanied by a previously unidentified female portrait from the Germanic National Museum as the portrait of Dürer's mother in terms of art history.

Fonts (selection)

  • Stephan Lochner's high altar of St. Katharinen in Cologne . Hamburg, 1938. University thesis Freiburg i. B., Phil. Diss., 1939
  • The Ghent Altarpiece and the Art of Jan van Eyck . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971
  • Lotte Brand Philip, Fedja Anzelewski : The portrait diptych of Dürer's parents . In: Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, Volume 10, No. 1, 1978-79, pp. 5-18
    • The newly discovered portrait of Dürer's mother: [Lecture, given ... on the occasion of Albrecht Dürer's 510th birthday on May 21, 1981 in the Fembohaus city museum] . Revised, exp., By the author in Dt. transfer Version of a first published at the end of 1979 in English. Language published essay. Nuremberg: Stadtgesch. Mus., 1981, pp. 3-33

literature

  • Brand Philip, Lotte , 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. 64-66.
  • William W. Clark , Colin Eisler , William S. Heckscher , Barbara G. Lane (Eds.): Tribute to Lotte Brand Philip: Art Historian and Detective . Festschrift. New York: Abaris Books, 1985, ISBN 0-89835-269-X .
  • Dagmar Hirschfelder : Dürer's early private and commissioned portraits between tradition and innovation , in: Daniel Hess , Thomas Eser (ed.): The early Dürer. Accompanying volume for the exhibition in the Germanic National Museum . Nuremberg: Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 2012, ISBN 978-3-936688-59-7 , pp. 101–116
  • Dagmar Hirschfelder : First steps as a painter: Dürer's parents portraits , in: Daniel Hess , Thomas Eser (eds.): The early Dürer. Accompanying volume for the exhibition in the Germanic National Museum . Nuremberg: Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 2012, ISBN 978-3-936688-59-7 , pp. 271-275

Web links

Commons : Lotte Brand Philip  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brand, Anna b. Majud 08/17/1875 Rostock 09/15/1943 Theresienstadt , with Jews in Mecklenburg.
  2. ↑ Philip, Herbert Leopold Wolfgang , in: Heiko Morisse: Exclusion and persecution of Hamburg's Jewish lawyers under National Socialism: Volume 2: Official lawyers . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2013 ISBN 978-3-8353-1225-8 , p. 176
  3. ↑ "costume jewelry designer" (rear-shear, in: commemorative, 1985, p 10).
personal data
SURNAME Brand Philip, Lotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philip, Lotte Brand; Brand, Lotte; Foerster, Lotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1986
Place of death New York City