Margarethe Schmidt

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Margarethe Schmidt (* in the 19th or 20th century) is an art historian and non-fiction author.

Life

Margarethe Schmidt first studied speech therapy education. After a while she made iconography her field of work and dealt mainly with Christian art. Her best-known work is The Forgotten Pictorial Language of Christian Art , a guide to understanding animal, angel and Mary symbolism (together with her husband, Pastor Heinrich Schmidt). In Italian she published Il linguaggio delle immagini: iconografia cristiana .

Works (selection)

  • Why an apple, Eva? , Regensburg: Schnell and Steiner, 2000, ISBN 3795413044
  • In the Presence of God with Schmidt, Heinrich, Stuttgart: Calwer Verl., 1990
  • On the specifics of the reception of oral texts, investigated the influence of communication processes on reception performance , 1985 available in Leipzig available in Frankfurt
  • The forgotten imagery of Christian art , with Schmidt, Heinrich, Munich: Beck, 1981

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. GND 133016439
  2. Literature by and about Margarethe Schmidt in the bibliographic database WorldCat