Mikhail Jakowlewitsch Liebmann

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mikhail Jakowlewitsch Liebmann (Russian Михаил Яковлевич Либман; * 1920 in Riga , † 2010 in Moscow ), was a Russian art historian and professor of the art history of Western Europe at the All- Union Research Institute for Art Studies of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR in Moscow.

Live and act

Michail J. Liebmann came from a middle-class family of Jewish origin who, after the occupation of Latvia by the German armed forces in 1941, managed to escape the incipient persecution of Jews by fleeing to the Soviet Union. After a short front-line assignment in 1941/42, he continued his art studies, which he had begun in Riga, at the Surikow Art Institute in Moscow , but in 1945 switched to the Lomonossow University in Moscow. He completed his studies in art history in 1949, received his doctorate in 1962 and qualified as a professor in 1969. After several years at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, he has been working at the All Union Research Institute for Art History since 1960. In 1980 he became its deputy director. Liebmann chose the late medieval and early modern visual arts of Central and Western Europe as his research focus and devoted himself in numerous individual studies to the art of Germany and Italy. His writings have also been published in German and English. Michail J. Liebmann was a member of the Central Expert Commission of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR.

Selection of German-language publications

  • Iconology , in: Ekkehard Kaemmerling (ed.), Iconography and iconology. Theories, Development, Problems ( Fine Art as a System of Signs 1), Cologne 1979, pp. 301–328. ISBN 3-7701-0847-7
  • The German sculpture 1350–1550 , Leipzig 1982 (translation of the Russian manuscript from 1976/77)
  • From the late Middle Ages and Renaissance (seaman's contributions to art history) , Leipzig 1987. ISBN 3-363-00058-8 (selected articles)
  • Late Middle Ages and early modern times. Experiences of a complex art research , in: Friedrich Möbius , Helga Sciurie (ed.), Stil und Epoche (Fundus-Bücher 118/119), Dresden 1989, pp. 357–364. ISBN 3-364-00166-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Ekkehard Kaemmerling (ed.), Ikonographie und Ikonologie. Theories, Development, Problems (Fine Art as a System of Signs 1), Cologne 1979, p. 509; Friedrich Möbius, Helga Sciurie (ed.), Stil und Epoche (Fundus-Bücherei 118/119), Dresden 1989, p. 406; https://viaf.org/viaf/5459483/ .
personal data
SURNAME Liebmann, Michail Jakowlewitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH 2010
Place of death Moscow