Max Osborn

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Max Osborn (born February 10, 1870 in Cologne , † September 24, 1946 in New York City ) was a German art critic and journalist.

Life

Max Osborn came from a Sephardic banking family, his father changed the family name from Ochse to Osborn after the birth of the family owner Max. Max Osborn attended the Apostelgymnasium in Cologne before his parents moved to Berlin, where he graduated from the Wilhelms-Gymnasium . Osborn studied German and art history in Heidelberg, Munich and Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1893 under Erich Schmidt . During his studies in 1889 he became a member of the Danubia Munich fraternity . He married Martha Boas in 1896, they had the children Hilde and Franz-Joachim.

From 1894 to 1914 Osborn co- edited the annual reports for recent German literary history, was editor at the Berliner National-Zeitung from 1900 and from 1914 to 1933 art critic for the Vossische Zeitung . For the Vossische Zeitung he was the First World War war correspondent on all German fronts. Osborn made a name for himself as the author and editor of numerous works of art and literature criticism. Together with Adolf Michaelis , Josef Neuwirth , Adolf Philippi and Felix Becker, he was the editor of the Handbuch der Kunstgeschichte . For the series Famous Art Places of the Leipzig publisher EA Seemann he wrote Volume 43, published in 1909, entitled Berlin , which was provided with 179 illustrations and offered an overall representation of Berlin's art history. Other works dealt with Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot or Franz Krüger .

After power was handed over to the National Socialists in 1933, Osborn's works fell victim to the National Socialist book burnings . In 1933 Osborn became a co-founder and employee of the Jewish Cultural Association . In 1934 and 1935 he stayed temporarily in Palestine . In 1938 he emigrated to Paris ; In 1941 he fled to the USA . In 1945 his memoirs appeared in New York under the title The Colorful Mirror , with a foreword by Thomas Mann .

Max Osborn was President of the Association of German Art Critics.

Fonts (selection)

Advertisement in a Berlin daily newspaper

Major works (selection)

  • The devil literature of the 16th century. In: Acta Germanica 1894. Verlag Mayer and Müller, Berlin, PDF .
  • The woodcut (= Collection of Illustrated Monographs, Vol. 16). Velhagen & Klassing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1905 ( digitized in the Internet archive )
  • Joshua Reynolds . Velhagen and Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1908.
  • Franz Kruger . Velhagen and Klasing, Bielefeld 1910.
  • Berlin . Famous Art Places, Volume 43. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1909. ( digital copy )
  • History of art. A brief account of their main epochs. Ullstein, Berlin 1909 (many other editions - 70th edition 1933) ( digitized version ).
  • Three roads of war: Arras, Champagne, Flanders . Ullstein, Berlin 1916
  • Against the Romanians: With the Falkenhayn Army up to z. Sereth . Introduced by a foreword by Erich von Falkenhayn. Ullstein, Berlin a. a. 1917.
  • Emil Orlik . Neue Kunsthandlung, Berlin 1920. Series of contemporary graphic artists.
  • Max Pechstein . Propylaea Verlag, Berlin 1922.
  • Max Oppenheimer - Mop . Together with Alfred Stix, Thomas Mann, Otto Brattskoven , Wilhelm Michel u. a., Werkkunstverlag, Berlin 1927.
  • Berlin 1870–1929. The rise to a cosmopolitan city. A memorial book. Edited by the Association of Berlin Merchants and Industrialists on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. Contributions also from Adolph Donath and Franz M. Feldhaus, Reimar Hobbing , Berlin 1929. Reprint, ed. from Museum Pedagogical Service Berlin, Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-7861-1373-4 .
  • The art of the Rococo. Propylaea, Berlin 1929.
  • Leonid Pasternak : With 4 fragments from the artist's autobiography . Stybel Verlag, Warsaw 1932 and Hartberg, Berlin 1932.
  • The mall of the West. Advertising pamphlet, editor Max Osborne, Kaufhaus des Westens, Berlin 1932.
  • The colorful mirror. Memories from the art, cultural and intellectual life of the years 1890 to 1933. With a letter to author from Thomas Mann? Friedrich Krause Verlag, New York 1945. New edition: The colorful mirror. Memories from the art, cultural and intellectual life from 1890 to 1933 . With a homage by Thomas Mann and reminiscences by Ruth Weyl. Edited by Thomas B. Schumann. Edition Memoria, Hürth near Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-930353-31-6 .

Miscarriage

In the publication series Neue Werkkunst with work monographs by well-known architects at the time, Osborn wrote forewords and introductions to the following illustrated books:

literature

  • Andreas Zeising: A well-known stranger. The Jewish art writer Max Osborn (1870–1946), in: Stephanie Marchal, Andreas Zeising u. Andreas Degner (Ed.): Art writing. Contours of an art critical practice, Edition Metzel, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-88960-182-7 , pp. 242–275
  • Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 2: L – Z. KG Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 465-470.
  • Osborn, Max. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish authors . Volume 17: Meid – Phil. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-22697-7 , pp. 404-414.
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss , (Ed.), Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Volume II, 2, KG Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p 879.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 529-531.

Web links

Wikisource: Max Osborn  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 607.
  2. ^ Directory of the old men of the German fraternity. Überlingen am Bodensee 1920, p. 198.
  3. ^ Franz-Joachim Osborn , (1903–1955), pianist, with Lexm. Hilde Grünfeld is the mother of Ruth Weyl.
  4. ↑ The book was part of Adolf Hitler's front reading in 1915. Timothy W. Ryback : Hitler's Private Library. The Books That Shaped His Life . New York 2010, pp. 7-9.
personal data
SURNAME Osborn, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1946
Place of death new York