Paul Laporte

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Paul Laporte (born Paul Heilbronner November 22, 1904 in Munich ; died probably June 4, 1980 in Santa Barbara ) was a German-American art historian.

Life

Paul Heilbronner was a son of the banker Hugo Heilbronner. He broke off school at the old secondary school and attended the arts and crafts school in Munich and the arts and crafts school in Halle , with Richard Riemerschmid , Karl Caspar and Erwin Hahs , among others , after which he worked as a painter and etcher. From 1928 Heilbronner studied art history, archeology and philosophy at the University of Munich and received his doctorate in 1933 with a dissertation on Johann Michael Fischer under Wilhelm Pinder . He also gained practical experience in the photography of artistic works.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he had to emigrate to Italy in 1933, where he made friends with Rudolf Arnheim and his wife Annette in Florence . He and Annette Arnheim were married in 1943. He made short films about works of art and a film about Florence and wrote for Italian magazines about art and about film.

With the support of the American Guild for German Cultural Freedom , he emigrated to the USA in 1939, where he took the name Paul Laporte . He worked as a teacher for art and handicraft classes at various colleges, including the Gordon School in Providence, the Providence Country Day School, the Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, from 1956 he was a professor at the Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles, In 1963 he was visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Laporte wrote numerous articles for American art magazines.

Fonts (selection)

  • Thomas Mann , Felix Wittmer: Disorder and early suffering . Woodcuts by Paul Heilbronner. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1930
  • Studies on Johann Michael Fischer . Munich: Heller, 1933 Munich, Phil. Diss. V. December 20, 1933.
  • (Paolo Heilbronner): Il municipio di Augusta, di Elia Holl, ei suoi rapporti con il barocco Italiano , in: Palladio, Rom, 2, 1938, pp. 45–54
  • Humanism and the contemporary primitive , in: Gazette des Beaux-Arts , 1946, pp. 45–62
  • The Classic Art of Renoir , in: Gazette des Beaux-Arts , 1948
  • Cubism and relativity, with a letter of Albert Einstein , in: Art Journal , New York, 25, 1966, pp. 246-248. The same in Leonardo , MIT Press, 1988, pp. 313-315, preface by Rudolf Arnheim

further articles in Wendland, 1999, p. 421

literature

  • Laporte, Paul , 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. 420f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sebastian Jung, LMU, puts his research into perspective as likely
personal data
SURNAME Laporte, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laporte, Paul M .; Heilbronner, Paul (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 4th June 1980
Place of death Santa Barbara (California)