Paul Schubring

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Paul Schubring (fully Paul Wilhelm Julius Schubring ; born January 28, 1869 in Godesberg ; † November 7, 1935 in Hanover ) was a German art historian with a focus on 15th century sculpture.

Live and act

Schubring's father was the Protestant pastor Friedrich Schubring (1834–1869). He studied in Greifswald, Bonn and Marburg until his doctorate in Protestant theology at the University of Bonn in 1892. During his studies, he became a member of the Schwarzburgbund - connections Sedinia Greifswald (1887) and Tuiskonia Halle (1888). In 1893 he became a teacher at a Scuola internazionale in Bari ; In 1899 he married Emma Marstaller, the daughter of the German consul in Bari. In 1895 he became vicar at the German Reformed Congregation in Frankfurt am Main, where he met Erich Foerster , the pastor and co-editor of the Protestant magazine Die Christliche Welt , for which he wrote articles. His interest in art history made him study again, in Leipzig from 1895 until his second doctorate in 1898 on Altichiero . Then in 1898/99 he completed traineeships in the Berlin Museum of Applied Arts and in the Gemäldegalerie. From 1899 to 1902 he was a research assistant for the collection of Christian sculptures in the Berlin museums. From April 1, 1900 to September 30, 1905 he was a teacher of art history and literature at the Academic College for the Fine Arts in Berlin. Schubring completed his habilitation on February 23, 1904 at the Technical University of Berlin . From October 1, 1904 to September 30, 1920 he was a teacher of art history at the State Art School in Berlin . On October 1, 1905, he was appointed professor for the history of the arts and crafts and the decorative arts as well as for teaching style at the TH Berlin, and on January 17, 1907 there. From October 1, 1909 to September 30, 1910, he was a full professor of art history at the University of Basel , but returned to the TH Berlin on October 1, 1910. On October 1, 1920 he became a full professor of art history at the TH Hannover , on April 1, 1935 he retired and died in the same year. In 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

His research on chests and chest portraits (Italian: cassoni) was new. In 1919 he wrote for the Handbuch der Kunstwissenschaft on sculpture of the 15th century. In 1926 he published the volume of Propylaea Art History on the Renaissance .

Fonts (selection)

  • Altichiero and his school: a contribution to the history of northern Italian painting in the Trecento . Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig 1898
  • The Italian tomb of the early Renaissance . Berlin 1904
  • The Italian sculpture of the Quattrocento . Handbook of Art History 18th Athenaion, Berlin 1919
  • The sculpture of Siena in the Quattrocento . Berlin 1907
  • The art of the High Renaissance in Italy . Propylaea Art History 9, Berlin 1926

literature

  • The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1956 . Hanover 1956.
  • Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon Two hundred portraits of German-speaking authors from four centuries . Stuttgart 1999, pp. 373-375.
  • Wolf Matthias:  Paul Schubring. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 17, Bautz, Herzberg 2000, ISBN 3-88309-080-8 , Sp. 1247-1251.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Goebel (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. 8th edition, Frankfurt am Main 1930, p. 131 No. 2898.

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personal data
SURNAME Schubring, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schubring, Paul Wilhelm Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Godesberg
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1935
Place of death Hanover