Richard Bernheimer
Richard Bernheimer (born September 30, 1907 in Munich ; died June 1958 in Lisbon ) was a German art historian.
Life
Richard Bernheimer came from the Munich art dealer family Bernheimer . He attended the Ludwigsgymnasium and from 1925 studied art history, archeology and East Asian art history in Munich, Berlin and Rome. He received his doctorate in 1930 in Munich under Wilhelm Pinder with the dissertation Romanesque animal sculpture and the origins of their motifs .
His main research interests were medieval as well as East Asian and Oriental art. After completing his studies, Bernheimer worked in the family art trade until 1933. After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he emigrated to the USA and found a position at Bryn Mawr College (PA), where he was professor of art history until 1958.
In 1941 he became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. During the Second World War, Bernheimer served in the US Army from 1942 and was used, among other things, as a translator for German prisoners of war.
Bernheimer's 1952 work Wild Men in the Middle Ages is considered to be the first scientific study of the role of wild creatures in works of art from the Middle Ages. 1955/56 Bernheimer was a Guggenheim Fellow .
Fonts (selection)
- Romanesque animal sculpture and the origins of their motifs . Munich 1931 (Diss. 1929)
- Special exhibition of Khmer and Siam sculptures . Munich 1931.
- Wild Men in the Middle Ages. A Study in Art, Sentiment and Demonology . Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard Univ. Pr., 1952
literature
- Bernheimer, Richard , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Art Historians in Exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, pp. 48-50
- Bernheimer, Richard , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 97
- Guy de Tervarent: Wild Men in the Middle Ages by Richard Bernheimer: Review . In: The Burlington Magazine , No. 617, August 1954
Web links
- Literature by and about Richard Bernheimer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Richard Bernheimer in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Anna Messner: Richard Bernheimer , at the University of Munich (LMU)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bernheimer, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1958 |
| Place of death | Lisbon |