Martin Wackernagel

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Martin Wilhelm Wackernagel (born January 2, 1881 in Basel , † January 14, 1962 in Cottens , Vaud ) was a Swiss art historian .

Life

Martin Wackernagel was a son of the Swiss historian Rudolf Wackernagel and the grandson of the German Germanist Wilhelm Wackernagel . After graduating from high school, he studied at the Universities of Basel and Geneva . After a long stay in Florence, he then studied art history, classical archeology and history at the universities of Berlin and Göttingen . In 1905 he received his doctorate in Berlin and then worked at the Prussian Historical Institute in Rome . In 1909 he completed his habilitation at theUniversity of Halle (Saale) and then worked there as a private lecturer. From 1905 to 1915 he undertook extensive research trips with Arthur Haseloff to southern Italy , during which the medieval art treasures there were photographed on glass plates and nitrocellulose film (approx. 3200 images).

In 1911 he completed his habilitation at the University of Leipzig and worked there as a private lecturer. In 1918 Wackernagel became associate professor in Leipzig and head of the local art association . In 1912 he married the poet Ilse von Stach . The marriage resulted in Peter (1913–1958), Karl Martin (1914–2004) and Maria Elisabeth (* 1919). From 1920 he was a full professor at the University of Münster , where he retired in 1948 . Wackernagel spent the last years of his life in Cottens / Switzerland not far from Lake Geneva , where he also died in 1962.

Fonts (selection)

  • The sculpture of the 11th and 12th centuries in Apulia (= . Vol. 2, ZDB -ID 538770-x ). Hiersemann, Leipzig 1911.
  • Basel (= Famous Art Places . Vol. 57, ZDB -ID 515789-4 ). Seemann, Leipzig 1912.
  • as editor with Albert E. Brinckmann: The architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries. Volume 2: Martin Wackernagel: The architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries in the Germanic countries. Academic Publishing Society Athenaion, Berlin 1915.
  • Max Slevogt (= The selection from recent poetry and art. Vol. 11, ZDB -ID 2062139-5 ). Führer-Verlag, Munich-Gladbach 1926.
  • The sculptor Kurt Kluge. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1930.
  • Münster (= German Land - German Art ). German Art Publishing House, Berlin 1931.
  • The artist's living space in the Florentine Renaissance. Tasks and clients, workshop and art market. Seemann, Leipzig 1938.
  • Aristocratic courts and castle in Münster (= major architectural monuments. Vol. 120, ZDB -ID 841730-1 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin ao 1948.
  • Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo (= Ullstein Art History. Vol. 13–14 = Ullstein Books. No. 4013–4014). 2 volumes. Ullstein et al., Frankfurt am Main et al. 1963–1964.

literature

  • Festschrift for Martin Wackernagel for his 75th birthday. Böhlau, Cologne 1958.
  • Günther Fiensch: Memories of Martin Wackernagel. In: Westfalen 59, 1981, pp. 93-96.
  • Uwe Albrecht (eds.): Arthur Haseloff and Martin Wackernagel. With mule and camera through southern Italy. Research on art in the southern kingdom of Hohenstaufen (1905–1915) (= time + history. Vol. 4). Ludwig, Kiel 2005, ISBN 3-937719-16-4 .
  • Pasquale Favia, Michael Matheus , Saverio Russo (eds.): Arthur Haseloff e Martin Wackernagel alla ricerca della Capitanata medievale. Photography dall'Archivio dell'Università di Kiel. Grenzi, Foggia 2010, ISBN 978-88-8431-407-9 .
  • Michael Matheus: Diversity of disciplines under one roof. A contribution to the history of science from the perspective of the German Historical Institute in Rome (DHI). In: Sabine Ehrmann-Herfort, Michael Matheus (ed.): From secrecy to international and interdisciplinary research. The music history department of the German Historical Institute in Rome 1960–2010 (= library of the German Historical Institute in Rome. Vol. 123). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-025073-2 , pp. 1-82.

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