Max Semrau
MaxSemrau (full name: August Maximilian Ernst Rudolf Semrau , born May 7, 1859 in Breslau , † August 17, 1928 in Nuremberg ) was a German art historian .
Life
Maximilian Semrau was the son of the journalist and revolutionary August Semrau and studied after high school in 1876 at the Mary Magdalene School art history at August Schmarsow at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau . When Schmarsow moved a winter semester to Florence in 1888 to give lectures there, the Schmarsow students Max Jakob Friedländer and Aby Warburg also took part in addition to Semrau . These events are considered to be the “forerunner institute” of the Art History Institute in Florence, which was founded in 1897 .
After completing his doctorate and habilitation, Semrau was a private lecturer in Breslau from 1891 to 1907. In 1906 he became the first associate professor for the subject of art history at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Greifswald , where he founded this new discipline. Semrau built up the art history seminar in Greifswald and laid the foundation for its library and slide library . In 1918 he became a personal professor and joined the German Democratic Party . From 1919 to 1925 he was a full professor for Middle and Modern Art History.
With Wilhelm Lübke (1826–1893) and other authors, he worked on the multi-volume plan of art history , which was first published in 1860 and was one of the most successful popular representations of its time. In 1927 he began as emeritus together with Otto Schmitt , his successor on the chair, the preparatory work on the Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte (RDK), which Schmitt continued alone after Semrau's death.
Semrau was married to the Jewish woman Matthilde Semrau, who survived National Socialism through her privileged “ mixed marriage ” in a Berlin old people's home. Their son, Reinhard Semrau, committed suicide on May 3, 1943 after years of harassment by the Gestapo .
Fonts (selection)
- Bertoldo di Giovanni. A contribution to the history of the Donatello School , Schottlaender, Breslau, 1891
- Donatello's pulpit in S. Lorenzo. A contribution to the history of Italian sculpture in the XV. Century , Schottlaender, Breslau, 1891
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Semrau in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Maximilian Semrau in the state bibliography MV
- A brief outline of the one hundred year history of the Chair of Art History at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald ( digitized version )
- Entry in the Dictionary of Art Historians
Individual evidence
- ^ Arnold Esch: ways to Rome, Beck, Munich, 2004, ISBN 978-3-406-51130-1 , p. 142 ff
- ↑ Festschrift for the 250th anniversary of the high school of St. Maria Magdalena in Breslau on April 30, 1893 , Breslau, 1893
- ^ Carl Georg Heise, Björn Biester, Hans-Michael Schäfer: Personal memories of Aby Warburg , Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2005, ISBN 978-3-447-05215-3 , p. 12
- ↑ Wolfgang Wilhelmus: History of the Jews in Pomerania , Ingo Koch, Rostock, 2004, ISBN 978-3-937179-41-4 , p. 224
- ↑ Hildegard Jakobs / Angela Grenger / Andrea Kramp: Stolpersteine. Remembering people from Düsseldorf, Erkrath, Langenfeld, Mettmann, Monheim and Ratingen . Ed .: on behalf of the support group of the memorial and memorial Düsseldorf eV Droste, Düsseldorf 2012, ISBN 978-3-7700-1476-7 , p. 175 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Semrau, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Semrau, August Maximilian Ernst Rudolf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 17, 1928 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |