Otto Wertheimer
Otto Wertheimer (born November 28, 1896 in Bühl (Baden) ; died 1973 in Paris ) was a Franco-German art historian and art dealer.
Life
Otto Wertheimer was a son of Leo Wertheimer (1869-1940), he had three older siblings, including the physician Ernst Wertheimer, born in 1893 . His father and sisters were victims of the Holocaust .
From 1919 Wertheimer studied art history, archeology and music history in Munich. Wertheimer received his doctorate in Munich with a dissertation on Nikolaus Gerhaert under Heinrich Wölfflin . Between 1931 and 1933 Wertheimer had work commissions from the Staatliche Museen Berlin and cataloged the “Photo Collection German Baroque” and the “Sculpture of the German Middle Ages” picture portfolios. After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he was excluded from these assignments for racist reasons.
Wertheimer emigrated to Basel. He stayed in Switzerland during the National Socialist era. He managed to free his mother from the Drancy assembly camp in occupied France. After the Second World War, he ran the “Galerie Les Tourettes” in Basel and Paris as an art dealer with his wife Anne Grünwald (–1981); their names appear in the provenance of paintings and sculptures.
Fonts (selection)
- Studies on the history of sculpture on the Upper Rhine, from 1470 to 1530. Universal printing house, Diss. Berlin 1924.
- Nicolaus Gerhaert. Its art and its effect. German Association for Art History, Berlin 1929.
- The Upper Rhine Sebastian group in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum. In: Yearbook of the Prussian Art Collection, No. 49, 1928, pp. 24–32.
- On the work of Heinrich Douwermann. In: Pantheon , No. 2 1928, pp. 535-540.
- The master of the Molsheim reliefs. In: Pantheon, No. 3 1929, pp. 115-124.
- A north German sculpture from the beginning of the 17th century. In: Pantheon, No. 5 1930, pp. 218f.
- Succession Anne Otto Wertheimer et à divers amateurs le mercredi 21 avril 1982, dessins, tableaux, cadres des XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, le jeudi 22 avril 2982, argenterie, faiences, verrerie, Extreme-Orient, archeology, Haute-Époque, objets d'art, meubles; vente à Paris - Nouveau Drouot, Paris. Francis Briest, Commissaire-Prizeur, 1982
- Anna Wertheimer
- Werkbund exhibition "Wohnbedarf" Stuttgart. In: Art and Artists. 31 (1932), pp. 307f.
literature
- Wertheimer, Otto. In: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 752f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Wertheimer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Otto Wertheimer in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Judith Csiki: Otto Wertheimer , at the University of Munich, 2010/11
- in re Account of Leo Wertheimer , at Claims Resolution Tribunal, December 31, 2002
- Otto Wertheimer , at open art data
Individual evidence
- ↑ The information on Wertheimer's doctorate differ between Wendland, 1999, and Csiki, 2010
- ^ Wertheimer, Anne , at DNB
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wertheimer, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-French art historian and antiquarian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bühl (Baden) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1973 |
| Place of death | Paris |