Margrit Lisner

Margrit Lisner (born July 14, 1920 in Wesel ; † September 18, 2014 ) was a German art historian .

After the sub-primary maturity in 1937, Margrit Lisner first attended the rural women’s school in Malchow (Mecklenburg) . From 1938 she worked in her father's company, the fish products company C. Lisner & Sons in Wesel. From 1946 to 1949 she worked for the Monument and Museum Council of Northwest Germany in Bonn. In 1948 she passed the gifted test for admission to university studies. In the summer semester of 1949 she began studying art history in Bonn , moving to Munich in 1950 and to Freiburg in 1952 . Here she received her doctorate in 1955 with Kurt Bauch , and in 1963 she completed her habilitation in Freiburg. From 1964 until her retirement in 1982 she taught art history at the University of Freiburg, since 1970 as a professor. She was the first female professor at the art history institute at the University of Freiburg. She left her art collection to the university so that art historical research in Italy can be supported from the proceeds.

Her field of research was Italian art, especially Renaissance sculpture. She published studies on Luca della Robbia , Donatello and Michelangelo . In 1962 she succeeded in assigning a wooden crucifix in Santo Spirito in Florence to Michelangelo.

Publications (selection)

• The pulpit of Luca della Robbia . Freiburg 1955 (= dissertation, with curriculum vitae)
• Luca Della Robbia. The pulpit . Reclam, Stuttgart 1960
• Wooden crucifixes in Florence and Tuscany from around 1300 to the early Cinquecento . Bruckmann, Munich 1970 (= habilitation thesis)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ University of Freiburg website (accessed May 28, 2020)
2. ^ Margrit Lisner: Michelangelo's crucifix from S. Spirito in Florence . In: Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst 15, 1964, pp. 7–36; Life from February 21, 1964, pp. 45-46 (with portrait) .