Otto Grautoff

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Otto Nikolas Grautoff (born May 31, 1876 in Lübeck , † April 27, 1937 in Paris ) was a German art historian , Romanist , journalist and translator .

Life

Otto Grautoff came from a Lübeck family, his father was a bookseller there, his grandfather Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff was a professor at the Katharineum in Lübeck and head of the local library .

Otto attended the Progymnasium Dr. Bussenius and also the Katharineum; Beyond school he was friends with Thomas Mann . His letters to Grautoff (1894–1901) are today an important source for assessing the origins of Buddenbrooks ; Mann portrayed him as "Kai". Grautoff did his doctorate on Nicolas Poussin's youth and thus marked the future focus of his work on Franco-German cultural relations.

Grautoff was married to Erna , born Heinemann (1888–1949), also an art historian, novelist and translator of French and English poetry. The couple had three daughters, Barbara, Uta and Christiane. The last-born Christiane Grautoff (1917–1974), an actress and a star on stage and in film as a child, married the playwright and political essayist Ernst Toller (1893–1939) on May 20, 1935 . The journalist and author Ferdinand Grautoff (1871-1935) was Otto Grautoff's brother.

Grautoff was the chief secretary of the monthly “ Deutsch-Französische Rundschau ”, which he launched and published in Berlin , a sister magazine to the Revue d'Allemagne published in Paris (co-editors in addition to Grautoff were: Heinrich Eduard Jacob , Rudolf Meerwarth , Fritz Norden , Edgar Stern- Rubarth , Maurice Le Boucher , Edmond Jaloux , Henri Lichtenberger and Gottfried Salomon-Delatour ). The “Deutsch-Französische Rundschau” appeared from January 1928 to June 1933. In 1928, Grautoff founded the “ Deutsch-Französische Gesellschaft ” (DFG) (at that time still under the name “Gesellschaft der Deutschen-Französische Rundschau”) in Berlin. Grautoff had to flee Germany in 1933. The orphaned DFG was banned by the Nazis in 1934. Grautoff died in 1937 while emigrating in Paris of a heart attack just before he left for New York.

Works

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  • Nicolas Poussin's youth. Dissertation, Bern 1914; Under the title Nikolas Poussin: His life and his work , the work was also published in 1914 by G. Müller Verlag, Munich & Leipzig.
  • The modern poster , 1898.
  • The development of modern book art in Germany. Leipzig, Verlag H. Seemann, 1901.
  • Together with Wilhelm Waetzoldt, Maurice Barrès and Albert Bartholomé : Art administration in Germany and France in the judgment ... as well as according to French chamber reports and German documents. Bern 1915.
  • Moritz von Schwind , 1904.
  • Together with Erna Grautoff: The lyrical movement in contemporary France: A selection , Diederichs, Jena 1911.
  • Nicolas Poussin: his work and his life. 2 volumes, Munich 1914.
  • Auguste Rodin , Leipzig 1908.
  • Lübeck. Series Ststätten der Kultur , Volume 9 (with illustrations by Fidus ), Leipzig 1908.
  • Eccentric love and artist stories. Leipzig 1907.
  • Shattering and building up of forms in the fine arts. Berlin 1919.
  • Munich's painting collections: an art history guide through the Königliche alten Pinakothek , the Königliche Maximilianeum , the collection of Baron von Lotzbeck, the Schackgalerie , the Königliche neue Pinakothek . Leipzig 1907.
  • The new art. Berlin 1921.
  • French painting since 1914. Berlin 1921
  • Wilhelm Wagner - sketchbook . Berlin: Verlag Fritz Gurlitt, 1922 (total edition 300 copies, of which X copies as a special edition).
  • Painting in the Baroque era in France and Spain. Volume 2 of Baroque painting in the Romanic countries. Potsdam 1928, Academic Publishing Company Athenaion mbH, Wildpark-Potsdam.
  • as ed .: von der Marwitz, Bernhard: A youth in poetry and letters to G. von Seckendorff, J. von Winterfeldt and others . Sibyllen-Verlag, Dresden 1924, with 4 illustrations. Götz von Seckendorff , Joachim von Winterfeldt-Menkin

literature

  • Hans Manfred Bock (Hrsg.): French culture in Berlin of the Weimar Republic: cultural exchange and diplomatic relations . Gunter Narr, Tübingen 2005 ISBN 3-8233-6181-3
    • dsb .: Transnational encounter in the age of nationalism. Otto Grautoff's life path between Germany and France, in Cultural Trailblazers for Political Conflict Resolution. Mediator between Germany and France in the first half of the 20th century. Narr , Tübingen 2005 ISBN 3823361821 (extracts can be read online)
  • Werner Fuld ; Albert Ostermaier (ed.): The goddess and her socialist. Christiane Grautoff, her life with Ernst Toller . Weidle, Bonn 1996 ISBN 3-931135-18-7
  • Roland Ray: Approaching France in the Service of Hitler? Otto Abetz and the German policy on France 1930-1942 . Munich 2000
  • Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 1: A – K. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 239-342.
  • Henry Keazor : "Poussin et l´Allemagne", in: Poussin, Watteau, Chardin, David ...: Peintures françaises dans les collections allemandes . Exhibition catalog. Ed. Pierre Rosenberg, Paris 2005, pp. 35–40 (also in the German edition of the catalog as "Once again: Poussin and Germany")

Web links

Commons : Otto Grautoff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Otto Grautoff  - Sources and full texts

Remarks

  1. ↑ See Wilhelm Mantels: Grautoff. In: ADB Volume 9, pp. 630-632
  2. ↑ Thomas Mann: Letters to Otto Grautoff 1894-1901 and Ida Boy-Ed 1903-1928. Edited by Peter de Mendelssohn , Fischer Verlag, ISBN 3-10-048183-6


personal data
SURNAME Grautoff, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grautoff, Otto Nikolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, Romanist, journalist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1937
Place of death Paris