Max Deri

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Max Deri (born on January 3, 1878 in Pressburg , Austria-Hungary as Max Deutsch ; died on September 2, 1938 in Los Angeles ) was an art historian , art critic and psychologist . He is considered a well-known art critic and writer in the Weimar Republic.

life and work

Deri was born in 1878 as the son of Ignaz Deutsch and Therese Pollak, a lawyer and city councilor in Pressburg. When the father became editor-in-chief of the Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung , the family moved to Vienna. There Deri graduated from the Academic Gymnasium in 1897. He then studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg until 1901. In the winter semester of 1901/02 he enrolled at the Philosophical Faculty of the Berlin University. He studied art history there, only in the summer semester of 1902 did he study in Vienna. Following his doctoral supervisor Adolph Goldschmidt , he received his doctorate in Halle in 1905 on "The scrollwork in German ornamentation of the 16th and 17th centuries". The dissertation shows a style that was methodically influenced by Goldschmidt, but does not yet indicate Deri's future specialties. In 1913/14 Deri gave lectures at the "Akademie für Jedermann" at the Kunsthalle Mannheim . In 1916 he moved to Berlin, where he worked as a journalist, mainly as an art critic for the Berliner Zeitung am Mittag , and for Paul Cassirer's art dealership.

His main field became the art of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He worked on a socio-historical and psychoanalytic basis. In addition, he wrote for various daily newspapers and specialist journals, including the » Schaubühne « , the psychoanalytic journal »Imago« (1912–1937; edited by Sigmund Freud), the » PAN « and the expressionist Sturm .

Important books were written at the beginning of the 1930s, for example "The styles of fine arts in the course of two millennia" (Berlin, Leipzig 1931). Deri also joined the pacifist movement of activism.

Deri was of Jewish descent. The name change in his family took place due to the conversion to the Christian faith. After the National Socialists took over power in 1933, he was dismissed as a Jewish intellectual and emigrated to what was then Czechoslovakia in 1933 or 1934 .

Deri's second wife, Frances Hertz (1880–1971), whom he met in Berlin, was a well-known psychoanalyst (doctorate in 1902). Also of Jewish origin, she emigrated to the United States in 1935. Max Deri and their two sons followed in 1937, where Deri died a short time later in Los Angeles.

Deri's sister-in-law Bella Alten-Deri was a soprano at the Vienna State Opera .

Fonts

  • Attempt a psychological art theory . Stuttgart 1912
  • Introduction to contemporary art . Leipzig, 1919
  • The new painting . Six lectures. With 95 illustrations. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921
  • Naturalism, idealism, expressionism . Seemann, Leipzig 1922
  • Painting in the XIX. Century . Rembrandt Verlag, Berlin 1923
  • The picture work: a guide to experiencing works of architecture, sculpture and painting . German Book Community, Berlin 1924
  • Natural object and human work: about a difference in the scientific consideration of natural and artificial facts . IPV, Vienna 1931. ("Reprint from 'Imago, journal for the application of psychoanalysis to the natural and human sciences' (edited by Sigm. Freud), Vol. XVII (1931))
  • The styles of the visual arts in the course of two millennia . Bong, Berlin 1933
  • Painting in the XIX. Century: Developmental presentation on a psychological basis . 2 volumes, Cassirer, Berlin 1919/20

literature

  • Deri, Max. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 5: Carmo – Donat. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-22685-3 , pp. 354-357.
  • Deri, Max , 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, pp. 121–123
  • Deri, Max , in: Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Volume 6. Chernivtsi, 1935, p. 538

Web links

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  1. ↑ http://www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/DEZERN1/PRESSE/jour-104.pdf Science journal of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kathleen Hirschnitz: »From Halle to the USA, to Munich, Rome, Cologne, Potsdam ... «
  2. ↑ a b c d Ulrike Wendland: Biographical manual of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 1: A – K. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 121-123.
  3. ↑ http://www.judentum.net/geschichte/namenswechsel.htm On the name change of Jewish-Protestant converts in Vienna, 1782–1914
  4. ↑ Frances Deri , with female psychoanalysts in Europe. Biographical lexicon
  5. ^ Max Deri: Attempt at a psychological art theory . F. Enke, 1912 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Deri, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES German, Max (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Art historian, art critic and psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Pressburg
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1938
Place of death los Angeles