Olga Bloch

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Olga Bloch (born August 30, 1900 in Breslau , † April 16, 1945 on a concentration camp transport between Hagenow Land and Wittenberge ) was a German art historian .

Life

Olga Bloch was the daughter of the businessman Alfred Bloch and his wife Rosa, nee. Henschel. She attended the Victoriaschule municipal school in Breslau until Easter 1918 and then received private lessons up to the final exam, which she passed at the Maria Magdalenen grammar school on Easter 1921 . She then studied art history, classical archeology, history, literature and Greek in Breslau, Berlin, Göttingen and Frankfurt . At the suggestion of Kurt Luthmer from the Hessisches Landesmuseum Kassel , she wrote a dissertation on the Kassel faience manufacture and was on July 31, 1928 with Rudolf Kautzsch in Frankfurt. She then worked as a freelance art historian in Berlin and wrote art reviews for the Jewish CV newspaper . From Volume 25, 1931 to 27, 1933 she wrote ten articles for the General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . On May 30, 1932, she gave a lecture on "The Need of Free Art Historians" on Berlin radio. In the Berlin address books she is listed as living in Dörnbergstrasse until 1937. 6 registered in Tiergarten. On December 19, 1938, she emigrated to the Netherlands. There she was taken to the Westerbork transit camp on April 15, 1943 . On January 12, 1944, she was transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , and on April 10, 1945, she was transported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and died on the way there.

Publications (selection)

  • History of the Kassel Fayencemanufakur . Coburg 1931 (partial print of the dissertation from 1928, with curriculum vitae).
  • Jewish art and history in the exhibition "Old Berlin". In: CV-Zeitung No. 22, May 30, 1930, pp. 291-292.
  • "Cult and Form". The exhibition in the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts . In: CV-Zeitung No. 46, November 14, 1930, pp. 597-598.
  • Jewish art collector . In: Der Morgen 11, 1935, pp. 348-351.
  • Our ancestors. The portrait exhibition in the Berlin Jewish Museum . In: CV newspaper November 12, 1936.
  • Reorganization in the Berlin Jewish Museum . In: CV newspaper March 24, 1938.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Renate Heuer: Bibliographia Judaica. Volume 1, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt 1982, ISBN 3-593-33061-X , p. 36 (afterwards also pseudonym "Dr. G. Kolb").
  2. ↑ The world art. Collection of excerpts from the price reports on auctions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland 6, No. 22, May 29, 1932, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Bloch, Olga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1945
Place of death between Hagenow Land and Wittenberge