Oswald Goetz

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Oswald Goetz (born November 23, 1896 in Hamburg ; died October 16, 1960 in New York City ) was a German-American art historian .

Life

Oswald Goetz was a soldier in World War I and retired as a war invalid. He studied art history in Frankfurt am Main , among others with Rudolf Kautzsch , and received a dissertation on François de Cuvilliés the Elder in 1921 . Ä. PhD. Goetz was then assistant to the director of the Städel in Frankfurt Georg Swarzenski and was able to remain so for a while after the Nazis came to power in 1933, as the Städel Foundation was able to oppose direct interference by the Frankfurt National Socialists. In 1938 Goetz was finally released because of his Jewish origins and emigrated to the USA. From 1940 to 1951 he worked as a curator at the Art Institute of Chicago and then went to the Parke-Bernet auction house , where he was promoted to Assistant Vice-President .

Fonts (selection)

The fig tree (1965)
  • François de Cuvilliés: A Contribution to the History of South German Ornamentation in the 18th Century . Frankfurt, Phil. Diss., 1925
  • Flowers and animals: watercolors by old and new masters . W. Andermann, Königstein im Taunus 1923
  • Sixteenth-century master portraits . W. Andermann, Königstein im Taunus 1924
  • Guide through the Städelsche Kunstinstitut . Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt a. M. 1936
  • with Ulrich Middeldorf : Medals and plaquettes from the Sigmund Morgenroth Collection . Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago 1943
  • with Meyric R. Rogers: Handbook to the Lucy Maud Buckingham Medieval Collection . Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago 1945
  • (Ed.): Articles for Georg Swarzenski on January 11, 1951 . Mann, Berlin 1951
  • The fig tree in the religious art of the occident . Mann, Berlin 1965

literature

  • Goetz, Oswald , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Art Historians in Exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, p. 189f.
  • Carl Georg Heise : Oswald Goetz † , in: Kunstchronik; 14 (1961), 2, pp. 58f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Fleckner, Max Hollein: Museum in contradiction - The Städel and National Socialism . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2011, p. 346 .
personal data
SURNAME Goetz, Oswald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1960
Place of death New York City