Max Huggler

Portrait (1935) by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Max Huggler (born October 12, 1903 in Bern , † November 25, 1994 in Berlin ) was a Swiss art historian , museum director and university professor.

Life

Max Huggler was born as the son of police sergeant Melchior Huggler in Bern. There he completed a degree in Protestant theology and art history . His first professional activities took him to Berlin. In 1928 he did his doctorate with Artur Weese in Bern, in 1931 he took over the management of the Kunsthalle Bern , where he was also in charge of the Hermann and Margrit Rupf Foundation . As early as 1933 he organized a large exhibition for Ernst Ludwig Kirchner here . In 1932 he completed his habilitation in art history on the circle of images in the manuscripts of the Alexander Apocalypse , also in Bern . In 1944 he switched to the management of the Kunstmuseum Bern , which he headed until 1965. In 1947, the deposited Paul Klee Foundation the estate of the painter there. In 1946 Huggler was appointed professor at the University of Bern , where he taught art history as an associate professor until 1973. Huggler was a member of the Federal Art Commission (EKK) from 1945 to 1950 . From 1949 to 1955 he was president of the Swiss Art Association, from 1952 of the Association of Swiss Art Museums and from 1960 to 1966 of the Swiss Committee of the International Museum Council (ICOM).

He lived in Sent , among other places , where he was friends with the artist Not Vital , Rome and Poschiavo .

He bequeathed the most important works from his private collection to the Kunstmuseum Bern. Around 80 works from the rest of the collection, including pictures by Cuno Amiet , Joseph Beuys , Max Böhlen , Eduardo Chillida , Sam Francis , Rolf Iseli , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Paul Klee , Joan Miró , Pablo Picasso , Mimmo Rotella , Mario Schifano and Mark Tobey were Auctioned in 2007 in Bern.

Awards

• 1994: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class

Fonts

• The circle of images in the manuscripts of the Alexander Apocalypse. Habilitation thesis. University of Bern 1931. Antonianum, Rome 1934.
• Max Bohlen . Huber, Frauenfeld 1973, ISBN 3-7193-0466-3 .
• The fountain by Max Fueter in Bern. Stämpfli, Bern 1975, ISBN 3-7272-9317-9 .
• Jean Bouret, Max Huggler: The painter Werner Hartmann . Harlekin, Luzern 1979, ISBN 3-85725-001-1 .

Foundations

The Professor Dr. The Max Huggler Foundation existed in Bern from December 20, 1967 until May 11, 1998, when it was deleted.

Web links

• Literature by and about Max Huggler in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, [catalog of the exhibition in the] Kunsthalle Bern from March 5 to April 17, 1933. - Buchdruckerei KJ Wyss Erben, Bern 1933. - [52] pages with 5 illustrations in the text and plates I-XIV and XVI-XXII.
2. ↑ Festschrift of the IKG University of Bern 2006 ( Memento of the original dated February 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 130, accessed August 13, 2009. 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Zita Caviezel-Rüegg: Max Huggler. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 8, 2006 , accessed August 13, 2009 .
4. ^ Page no longer available , search in web archives: auction catalog of Galerie Kornfeld (PDF; 1.7 MB), accessed on August 12, 2009.
5. ↑ Entry in the Bern Foundation Register , accessed on August 13, 2009.