Otto Kletzl

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Otto Kletzl (born June 20, 1897 in Bohemian Leipa , † December 1945 in Posen ) was a German art historian . He was a cousin of the graphic artist Alfred Kubin and a founding member and secretary of the Prague Secession founded in 1928 .

Life

After military service during the First World War , Kletzl studied architecture at the German Technical University in Prague until 1923 , where he received his doctorate in 1927. techn. received his doctorate . From 1927 to 1931 he studied art history in Berlin , with Wilhelm Pinder in Munich and in Prague . From 1931 he worked as part of a research contract for art from across Germany and abroad, with special attention to the Sudeten area in Marburg (Lahn) , where he worked with Richard Hamann in 1937 against the ideological and determined resistance of the National Socialist German Lecturers' Association with a work on the title and name of Master builders German Gothic qualified as a professor . Kletzl had already “campaigned for Hamann with great commitment” when he got into trouble in 1933 due to his advocacy for contemporary art. After initially being refused a lectureship, he was given a visiting professorship at the University of Liège in 1940 . From 1941 to 1945 he was associate professor and acting director of the Institute for Art History at the University of Poznan , where he died in December 1945 in captivity.

Kletzl was committed to contemporary German art in the newly founded Czechoslovakia . He was a co-founder of the magazine Witiko , published from 1928 to 1931 , in which he “not only covered the visual arts with numerous articles of his own, but also belonged to the closest circle of employees and sponsors of the magazine.”

Kletzl's main scientific interest was the late Gothic architecture in Bohemia, namely the Prague cathedral builder Peter Parler and its influence on the German architecture of the late Middle Ages . His particular merit lies in the processing of the source-historical basis, through which the biographies of numerous builders of the late Gothic could be created. At the same time, Kletzl is considered a pioneer in the field of research into Gothic architectural drawing.

Fonts (selection)

  • About German culture in Czechoslovakia, on the occasion of the exhibition for contemporary culture in Brno in 1928 . Stauda, ​​Kassel 1928.
  • Rudolf Krauss, an eraser . Publishing house of the Adalbert Stifter Literary Society in Eger, Eger 1929.
  • Ideal landscapes by the draftsman Goethe . In: Yearbook of the Free German Hochstift , year 1932/33, pp. 304–341.
  • On the identity of the cathedral master builder Wenzel Parler d.Ä. from Prague and Wenceslaus from Vienna . In: Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 9, 1934, pp. 43–62.
  • German art in Bohemia and Moravia . ( German Land, German Art ). German Art Publishing House, Berlin 1941.
  • Ulrich von Ensingen's early work . In: Architectura 1, 1933, pp. 170-194.
  • Master Erwin von Steinbach and its importance for the German Gothic . In: Research and Progress 11, 1935, pp. 67-69.
  • Titles and names of German Gothic builders . ( Writings of the Deutsche Akademie , issue 26). Ernst Reinhard, Munich, 1935.
  • The Junkers of Prague in Strasbourg . Frankfurt am Main 1936.
  • Two plans for the Freiburg cathedral tower . In: Oberrheinische Kunst 7, 1936, pp. 15–35.
  • Diagram plans and old views of the west facade of the Strasbourg cathedral . In: Elsaß-Lothringisches Jahrbuch 15, 1936, pp. 62–114.
  • A plan of the women's shelter in Strasbourg . In: Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 11/12, pp. 103–158.
  • Original plans of the German cathedral builder in Prague . In: Research and Progress 14, 1938, pp. 377f.
  • An unknown parchment plan of the Münsterbauhütte in Strasbourg . In: Research and Progress 14, 1938, pp. 249-250.
  • The Leitacher Törl at the parish church of Bozen . In: Publications of the Museum Ferdinandeum 18, 1939, pp. 615–641.
  • Plan fragments from the German cathedral construction works in Prague in Stuttgart and Ulm ( publications of the Stuttgart City Archives , Volume 3). Felix Rais, Stuttgart 1939.
  • Riemenschneider art in West Bohemia . In: Yearbook of the Prussian Art Collections 60, 1939, pp. 56–70.
  • Peter Parler, the cathedral builder of Prague . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940.
  • Fight against the devil and death in the mirror of old German art ( University of Posen, lectures and essays , booklet 3). Kluge & Ströhm, Posen 1943.
  • The Kressberger Fragments. Two drawings of the German steelworks. Study of the architectural history of the west facade of the Strasbourg Cathedral and the nave of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna . In: Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 13, 1944, pp. 129–170.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sabine Arend: Otto Kletzl . In: Handbuch der Völkisch Wissenschaft: Actors, Networks, Research Programs , edited by Michael Fahlbusch, Ingo Haar and Alexander Pinwinkler. 2nd Edition. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2017, pp. 341–343; see. Sabine Arend: Dagobert Frey (University of Breslau) and Otto Kletzl (University of Posen). Networks of art-historical researchers from the East in National Socialism . In: The Biography - Fashion or Universal? On the history and concept of a genre in art history , edited by Beate Böckem, Olaf Peters and Barbara Schellewald. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, pp. 17–28.
  2. ↑ Anne Christine Nagel (ed.): The Philipps University of Marburg in National Socialism: Documents to their history . Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, pp. 245-264.
  3. ↑ Ruth Heftrig: Fanatics of Objectivity: Richard Hamann and the Reception of Modernity in German University Art History 1930–1960 . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, pp. 114–117.
  4. ↑ https://kg.ikb.kit.edu/825.php
  5. ↑ Michael Berger: Witiko (1928-1931), a magazine between the province and the metropolis . In: Bridges. Germanistic Yearbook Czech Republic - Slovakia , NF 1 1991/92, p. 57.
personal data
SURNAME Kletzl, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Bohemian Leipa
DATE OF DEATH December 1945
Place of death Poses