Oto Bihalji Merin

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Oto Bihalji-Merin (1990)

Oto Bihalji-Merin ( Serbian - Cyrillic Ото Бихаљи-Мерин ; also: Oto Bihalji-Mérin , pseudonyms : Peter Merin , Peter Thoene ; born January 3, 1904 in Zemun , Austria-Hungary ; † December 22, 1993 ) was a Yugoslav author and art historian .

Life

Oto Bihalji-Merin attended an art school in Belgrade , then the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts in Berlin . He joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1924 , and later the Communist Party of Germany . He was editor of the magazine Die Linkskurve . After the seizure of power of Adolf Hitler in 1933 he moved to Paris , more stations were Switzerland, Spain and Italy, before returning to Yugoslavia. There he was taken prisoner of war in April 1941 as a Yugoslav reserve officer, which lasted until 1945.

After the war he was editor of the Yugoslav party newspaper Borba and editor of several magazines. He has written numerous books on subjects from the field of fine arts.

Awards

Bihalji-Merin has received numerous awards, including the Leopold Order (Belgium) , the Herder Prize (1964) and the Great Federal Cross of Merit .

Works

  • (under the pseudonym Peter Thoene ): Conquest of the sky. History of the thought of flight . Vienna: Tal, 1937
  • (under the pseudonym Peter Thoene ): Modern German art , London 1938
  • (under the pseudonym Peter Merin ): Spain between death and birth , Jean Christophe-Verlag Zurich 1937; engl. Translation: Spain between death and birth , New York 1938
  • (with Lise Bihalji-Merin): Yugoslavia. Small country between the worlds . Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1955, 2nd edition 1966
  • Frescoes and icons. Medieval art in Serbia and Macedonia . Munich: Reich, 1958
  • The naive picture of the world . Cologne: DuMont, 1959; Revised new edition under the title The Painting of the Naive , 1975, ( ISBN 3-7701-0832-9 ); 3rd edition 1981 ( ISBN 3-7701-0832-9 )
  • Modern art adventure. On the becoming unity of the world in the vision of art , 1962
  • (with Alojz Benac ): Stones of the Bogomils , 1964
  • End of Art in the Age of Science ?, Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1969
  • (as editor): Umetničko blago Jugoslavije
  • (as editor): Bridges of the World , 1971
  • Max Seidel (ed.): " Mathis Gothart Nithart Grünewald - The Isenheimer Altar", Heinrich Geissler , Bernhard Saran, Joseph Harnest , Adalbert Mischlewski, foreword Oto Bihalji-Merin, Belser Verlag Stuttgart, 1973.
  • Image and imagination. Re-Vision of Art , 1974 ( ISBN 3-7658-0195-X )
  • Early encounters with Anna Seghers . In: About Anna Seghers. A 75th Birthday Almanac , 1975
  • (with Lise Bihalji-Merin): Henri Rousseau . Life and Work , 1976 ( ISBN 3-7701-0859-0 )
  • (with Nebojša-Bato Tomašević ): Enciklopedija naivne umetnosti sveta , 1984; translated into several languages, including:
    • English-language edition: World encyclopedia of naive art , 1984 ( ISBN 0-584-95062-4 )
    • German-language edition: Weltenzyklopädie naive Kunst. A Hundred Years of Naïve Art , 1989 ( ISBN 3-88059-314-0 )
  • The Naive of the World , 1986 ( ISBN 3-88102-071-3 )

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SURNAME Bihalji merin, Oto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bihalji-Mérin, Oto; Thoene, Peter; Biha, Oto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav painter and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Zemun
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1993