Otto Lehmann-Brockhaus

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Otto Lehmann-Brockhaus (born March 2, 1909 in Unna ; † March 14, 1999 ) was a German art historian .

Life

Lehmann-Brockhaus was a scholarship holder of the Bibliotheca Hertziana from 1938 to 1945 . In 1948 he became the first librarian in the Central Institute for Art History , which was newly founded in 1946 , until he took over the same position at the Roman Bibliotheca Hertziana in 1961. In 1967 he became director there alongside Wolfgang Lotz . In 1977 Lehmann-Brockhaus retired .

Works

  • Written sources on the history of art of the 11th and 12th centuries. for Germany, Lorraine and Italy . 2 volumes, Berlin 1938.
  • Abruzzo and Molise. Art and History (Roman Researches of the Bibliotheca Hertziana, XXIII). Munich 1983 (Online = Living Book ).

literature

  • Valentino Pace, Julian Kliemann : Otto Lehmann-Brockhaus 2.3.1909 - 14.3.1999. In: Yearbook of the Max Planck Society 2000, pp. 920–922 (obituary to Lehmann-Brockhaus).
  • Valentino Pace: Otto Lehmann-Brockhaus. Art history between walks and libraries . In: 100 Years of the Bibliotheca Hertziana . Volume 1: The history of the institute 1913–2013 , edited by Sybille Ebert-Schifferer . Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7774-9051-9 , pp. 182-187.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katrin Hoffmann (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar, Volume 1, 18th Edition. KG Saur, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-598-23603-4 , p. 3714.
  2. ^ Rüdiger Hoyer: The library of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. In: Bibliotheksforum Bayern 31, 2003, pp. 26–70, here pp. 35–43.
  3. ^ Bibliotheca Hertziana: The Living Book Project
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann-Brockhaus, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, director of the Hertziana in Rome
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Unna
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1999