Lotte Pulvermacher-Egers

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Lotte Pulvermacher-Egers (born Lotte Pulvermacher September 2, 1904 in Berlin ; died November 10, 1986 in New York ) was a German-American art historian .

Life

Lotte Pulvermacher was a daughter of the businessman Siegmund Martin Pulvermacher and Martha Egers, her mother was a descendant of Rabbi Akiba Eger . Her mother died in 1932, her father was deported from Berlin to the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1942 and murdered there.

Pulvermacher attended the Lyceum Augusta School and from 1924 studied art history, classical archeology and philosophy in Freiburg im Breisgau and Berlin. She received her doctorate in 1931 with Hans Jantzen in Freiburg with a dissertation on the scrollwork . In 1932/33 she worked on the ornament engraving collection of the Staatliche Museen Berlin with a work contract . Pulvermacher wrote articles for the Thieme-Becker artist's lexicon between 1931 and 1933 , and in 1937 she published three more articles in the first volume of the real lexicon on German art history . After power was handed over to the National Socialists in 1933, she was only allowed to work for Jewish organizations and worked at the Jewish Museum Berlin .

Pulvermacher emigrated to the USA in 1937 and changed her name to Pulvermacher-Egers. She worked as a German teacher and lecturer in art history at various colleges. In New York she wrote with the author's abbreviation L. PE. Contributions to the Encyclopedia of the Arts , published in 1946.

The Mannes College of Music in New York, where she taught for 29 years, awards the Lotte Pulvermacher-Egers Humanities Award on her behalf .

Fonts (selection)

  • The new synagogue on Prinzregentenstrasse in Berlin. In: Bayerische Israelitische Gemeindezeitung. Volume 6, issue 19 (October 1, 1930), p. 304 ( digitized version ).
  • The scrollwork in southern German sculpture and its development up to approx. 1620 (= studies on German art history. 285). JH Ed. Heitz, Strasbourg 1931.
  • Arabesque. In: Real Lexicon on German Art History. Volume 1, 1935, Col. 895-900 ( digitized version ).
  • Imperial Exhibition of Jewish Artists in Berlin . In: Bayerische Israelitische Gemeindezeitung 11, 1936, pp. 251-252.
  • Ribbon ornament. In: Real Lexicon on German Art History. Volume 1, 1937, Col. 1436-1437 ( digitized version ).
  • Belt loop. In: Real Lexicon on German Art History. Volume 1, 1937, Col. 1437-1438 ( digitized version ).

literature

  • Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. KG Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 528-529 (reading sample, books.google.de ).
  • Peter Burke : Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge, 1500-2000. Brandeis University Press, Waltham, Massachusetts 2017, ISBN 978-1-5126-0038-4 , p. 199.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rabbi Akiba Eger , at loebtree.com.
  2. ↑ Sigmund Martin Pulvermacher , at holocaust.cz.
  3. ↑ Dagobert D. Runes, Harry G. Schrickel (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Arts . Philosophical Library, New York 1946, Contributing Editors ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Pulvermacher-Egers, Lotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pulvermacher, Lieselotte (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1986
Place of death New York City