Martin Weinberger

Martin Weinberger (born April 21, 1893 in Nuremberg ; died September 6, 1965 in New York City ) was a German-British art historian .

Life and activity

Weinberger was a son of Max Weinberger and his wife Claire, geb. Hirschmann. After attending school, Weinberger studied art history in Würzburg, Heidelberg and Munich. In 1920 he received his doctorate with a thesis entitled "Nuremberg Painting at the Turn of the Renaissance and the Beginnings of the Dürer School".

From 1921 to 1922 Weinberger taught as a lecturer in art history at the adult education center in Nuremberg. He then worked from 1922 to 1923 as a volunteer at the Munich museums. In the years 1924 to 1925 Weinberger was employed as a research assistant at the Bavarian National Museum , where he was mainly concerned with cataloging paintings.

From 1926 to 1930 Weinberger stayed for research purposes at the German Art History Institute in Florence , where he was financed at times by a grant from the Bavarian state.

From 1931 to 1933 Weinberger was employed as an assistant at the Theater Museum in Munich , where he was responsible for cataloging the collections of graphics.

After the National Socialists came to power , Weinberger was removed from civil service due to his - according to National Socialist definition - Jewish descent: In accordance with the provisions of the law on the restoration of the civil service , his employment contract was not extended. He then moved to Florence that same year, where he stayed until 1934. During this time he taught at the American Center of European Studies and contributed to the Enciclopedia Italiana .

In 1936 Weinberger moved to the Art History Institute at the University of London . There he held lectures at the Courtauld Institute in London from 1934 to 1936

In 1937 Weinberger moved to the United States, where he received an apprenticeship at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University that same year . From 1938 to 1944 he taught at the same time at the University of Pennsylvania . In 1947 Weinberger was appointed professor at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.

After his emigration, Weinberger was classified by the National Socialist police as an enemy of the state: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people whom the Nazi surveillance apparatus regarded as particularly dangerous or important, which is why they should be successful if they were successful Invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht should be located and arrested by the occupying troops following SS special commandos with special priority.

Weinberger's main research areas were Italian, German and French sculptures from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as well as German paintings and prints from the 15th and 16th centuries.

family

Weinberger had been with the philologist Edith Weinberger, born in 1927. Schwarz (1901–1967) married.

Fonts

Monographs

• Nuremberg painting at the turn of the Renaissance and the beginnings of the Dürer School , (= Studies on German Art History 217) Strasbourg 1921.
• German Rococo drawings , (= The drawing I: The Germans) Munich 1923.
• The shapes of the Katharinenkloster in Nuremberg. An attempt on the history of the earliest Nuremberg woodcut with woodcuts and dough prints from the property of the city library and the Germanic Museum in Nuremberg , Munich 1925.
• The George Gray Barnard Collection , 1941.
• Michelangelo. The Sculptor , 2 vols., London and New York 1967.

Essays:

• "Wolf Huber", in: Kunst 1923/24, pp. 211–223.
• "Small contributions to the localization of early woodcuts", in: Mitteilungen des Gesellschaft für Vervielsamendes Kunst 53 (1930), pp. 37–50
• "An Augsburger Pestblatt", in: Contributions to research. Studies from the second-hand bookshop Jacques Rosenthal , ns 4 (1932), pp. 1–6.
• "The First Facade of the Cathedral of Florence", in: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes IV, 1940/41, pp. 67-79.
• "A French Model of the Fifteenth Century", in: The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 9 (1946), pp. 9-21.
• "An Early Woodcut of the Man of Sorrows at the Art Institute of Chicago", in: Gazette des Beaux-Arts 29 (1946), pp. 346-362.
• "Nicola Pisano and the Tradition of Tuscan Pulpits", in: Gazette des Beaux-Arts , 1960, pp. 129-146.

literature

• German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 4 (Gies-Hessel) 1999, p. 394.
• Middeldorf: Obituary for Martin Weinberger, in: Martin Weinberger: Michelangelo the Sculptor , Vol. 2, London 1967, p. 408.
• Weinberger, Martin , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Art Historians in Exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 724-727

Web links

• Entry in the Dictionary of Art Historians .