Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich

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Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich (born March 23, 1903 in Leipzig , † September 14, 1978 in Munich ) was a German art historian . His research and teaching focused on the fine arts and architecture of the Italian Renaissance . His most important publications are devoted to Leonardo da Vinci .

life and work

Heydenreich studied and received his doctorate with Erwin Panofsky at the art history seminar of the University of Hamburg , which, despite its only short existence, was already internationally recognized due to the iconological theory of Panofsky and Aby Warburg .

In 1934, one year after the forced emigration of the “ non-Aryan ” Panofsky, Heydenreich became a private lecturer at the seminar, and he soon took over the management of the seminar. He taught here from 1934 to 1937. Accusations and defamations on the part of National Socialist circles (e.g. Werner Burmeister ) brought him in that he continued to supervise the remaining doctoral students of his teacher and also some - if not all - theoretical defamation as "Jewish" Panofsky's approaches further represented. From 1937 to 1943 he taught in Berlin .

In 1943 he moved to Florence , where he succeeded Friedrich Kriegbaum as head of the Art History Institute . As the Wehrmacht commissioner for military art protection , he worked together with Italian monument conservation authorities to protect historical buildings and works of art from war damage and misuse, especially in Florence, Siena and Pisa . Heydenreich also ensured that cultural assets were secured and transported to the Alpine region. The photographic documentation of the old town of Florence commissioned by him is the last evidence of its historical condition before the German troops, on their retreat in 1944 , blew up the Ponte Santo Spirito and the two buildings in front of the Ponte Vecchio .

In 1946 he was founding director of the in Munich settled Central Institute for Art History , which promote on an international scale reconstruction of German art history and should allow the revival of the 1933 demolished international contacts. Heydenreich headed the central institute until 1970. From 1951 he was editor of the Reallexikons on German art history . In 1968 he was elected a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Heydenreich died in 1978 at the age of 75 and was buried in Munich's Ostfriedhof . He was married to Elisabeth born. Brewer (1902-2000).

In May 2012, the manuscript of Erwin Panofsky's post- doctoral thesis, "Michelangelo's design principles, especially in their relationship to those of Raphael", was discovered in Heydenreich's estate, which was in a long-time unopened safe of the institute . The typescript was left in Panofsky's office in Hamburg when he emigrated to the USA after his suspension by the Nazi regime in 1934, and for unknown reasons it has never been returned to the author von Heydenreich, who must have recovered it.

Fonts (selection)

  • Leonardo. Rembrandt Verlag, Berlin 1943.
  • Leonardo da Vinci's religious building studies. Research on the subject: Leonardo da Vinci as an architect. 2., through u. supplementary edition. Fink, Munich 1971, DNB 456983244 .
  • Italian renaissance. Beginnings and development in the period from 1400 to 1460. Beck, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-406-03019-X .
  • with Bern Dibner and Ladislao Reti: Leonardo, the inventor. Belser, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-7630-1775-5 .
  • Studies of Renaissance Architecture. Selected essays. Fink, Munich 1981.
  • Günter Passavant (ed.): Leonardo studies. Prestel, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7913-0764-9 .

literature

  • Wolfgang Lotz , Lise Lotte Möller : Studies on Tuscan Art. Festschrift for Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich on March 23, 1963 . Prestel, Munich 1964 (with list of publications):
  • Otto Pächt : Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich. Obituary (with list of publications 1964–1977) . In: Almanach of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 129, 1979, pp. 381–388.
  • Hans W. Hubert: The Art History Institute in Florence. From the foundation to the centenary (1897–1997) . Casa Editrice El Ventilabro, Florence 1997, ISBN 88-86972-03-2 , esp. Pp. 68-77.
  • Costanza Caraffa, Almut Goldhahn: Between "art protection" and cultural propaganda. Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich and the Art History Institute in Florence 1943–1945. In: Christian Fuhrmeister, Johannes Griebel, Stephan Klingen, Ralf Peters (eds.): Art historians in the war. German military protection of art in Italy 1943–1945 . Böhlau, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-412-20804-2 , pp. 93-110.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Even in war the muses are not silent". The German Scientific Institutes in World War II. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-35357-X , p. 366.
  2. ^ Tomb in the Find a Grave database . Accessed June 30, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ Julia Voss: The find in the safe. In: FAZ. August 31, 2012; Gerda Panofsky (ed.): Michelangelo's design principles, especially in their relationship to those of Raphael. Habilitation. Hamburg 1920. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-031047-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Heydenreich, Ludwig Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1978
Place of death Munich