Richard Krautheimer

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Richard Krautheimer

Richard Krautheimer (born July 6, 1897 in Fürth ; † November 1, 1994 in Rome ) was a German-American art historian .

Life

Krautheimer, son of Nathan (1854–1910) and Martha Krautheimer, b. Landmann (1875–1967) comes from one of the most respected Jewish families in Fürth. His sister (* 1900), mother of the historian Gerard E. Caspary , was murdered in Auschwitz in 1942, his sister Lotte (married Friedman, 1909–2005) emigrated to Stockholm in 1934.

In the winter semester of 1916/17, Krautheimer enrolled at the University of Munich to study history. However, since he was called up for military service, he could not begin his studies until the war emergency semester in 1919. In his first semester he studied art history with August Liebmann Mayer and Paul Frankl , and he also took part in exercises in German, philosophy, history, Greek art history, constitutional and constitutional law and politics. Since the second semester he was a member of Heinrich Wölfflin's art history seminar. In the winter semester 1920/21 he studied in Berlin , in the SS 1921 in Marburg , and since the winter semester 1921/22 in Halle . 1923 Krautheimer in Hall Paul Frankl with a work over the churches of the mendicant orders in Germany for Dr. phil. PhD . In the winter of 1923/24 Krautheimer worked for the Prussian Monument Preservation in Erfurt ; Here he met the art historian Trude Hess (1902–1987), whom he married in March 1924. He later describes himself at this time as “very clever, but terribly insecure and therefore arrogant; clumsy in dealing with people; ambitious, always in opposition and quite naughty towards the older generation. Not a very nice young man ”.

In 1927 Krautheimer completed his habilitation with Richard Hamann in Marburg with the thesis Medieval Synagogues. In Marburg he received the Venia Legendi . In the same year he began work on the "Corpus Basilicarum Christianarum Romae".

In August 1933 , Krautheimer emigrated with his wife to Rome and, at the end of 1935, to the USA. Here he got a position at the University of Louisville and founded the history of art there. Since 1937 Krautheimer taught at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie . He also gave bi-semester lectures on the history of architecture at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University . There he taught as a professor of architectural history from 1952. In addition, Krautheimer was one of the co-founders of the Census research project that was created in 1946 at the Warburg Institute and in cooperation with the Institute of Fine Arts . In 1958 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , 1964 to the British Academy and 1965 to the American Philosophical Society . At the age of 73, Richard Krautheimer retired from the Institute of Fine Arts in the 1970/71 winter semester . In 1971 he moved to Rome, where he lived in the building of the Bibliotheca Hertziana . In 1973 he was awarded an international Antonio Feltrinelli Prize .

During his academic career, Krautheimer has repeatedly dealt intensively with the architecture of Rome. In 1976 the fifth and last volume of the “Corpus Basilicarum Christianarum Romae” went to press. On April 21, 1994 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Rome. He was buried on the Cimitero acattolico in Rome.

Peter Brown calls him "the best expert on the Christian architecture of Rome in the 5th century."

Publications (selection)

  • with Wolfgang Frankl , Spencer Corbett and Alfred K. Frazer : Corpus basilicarum Christianarum Romae - Early Christian Basilicas of Rome , 5 volumes, Vatican City 1937–1977.
  • Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture , Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1965; 4th revised edition 1986
  • Rome. Profile of a City , Princeton University Press, Princeton 1980, ISBN 0-691-03947-X
    • German Rome. Destiny of a City, 312–1308 , CH Beck, Munich 1987.
  • Three Christian Capitals. Topography and politics. Rome, Constantinople, Milan , University of California Press, Berkeley 1983, ISBN 0-520-04541-6
  • Selected essays on European art history , Dumont, Cologne 1988.

literature

  • Peter Betthausen , Peter H. Feist , Christiane Forck: Metzler-Kunsthistoriker-Lexikon . Two hundred portraits of German-speaking authors from four centuries. Metzler, Stuttgart [et al.] 1999, ISBN 3476015351 , pp. 225-228.
  • Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 1: A – K. KG Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 377-386
  • Golo Maurer: Richard Krautheimer (1897–1994). In: Ulrich Pfisterer (ed.): Classics of Art History Vol. 2. From Panofsky to Greenberg. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 3406548199 , pp. 90-106.
  • Reiner Haussherr: German Jew, American, Roman citizen: On the 100th birthday of Richard Krautheimer, 7.7.1897-1.11.1994. In: Journal for Art History 60th Vol., 1997, pp. 577-579.
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. KG Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 660
  • Krautheimer, Richard. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 14: Kest – Kulk. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. KG Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-22694-2 , pp. 358-362.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Claudia Kapsner: Richard Krautheimer. In: Insights - Outlooks. Jewish art historian in Munich. (October 2010 - March 2011). Retrieved April 4, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Richard Krautheimer: Selected essays on European art history , Dumont, Cologne 1988, p. 12 (quoted from. Maurer: Richard Krautheimer. 2008 , p. 91).
  3. ↑ On the history of the Census. In: http://www.census.de/census/projekt
  4. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 21, 2020 .
  5. ^ Member History: Richard Krautheimer. American Philosophical Society, accessed January 3, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Maurer: Richard Krautheimer. 2008 , p. 101.
  7. ↑ Peter Brown: Treasure in Heaven. The rise of Christianity and the fall of the Roman Empire. Stuttgart 2017. p. 662.
personal data
SURNAME Krautheimer, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1994
Place of death Rome