Robert Bartlett Haas

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Robert Bartlett Haas (born January 20, 1916 in Santa Cruz , California , United States , † April 20, 2010 in Nürtingen , Germany ) was an American literary scholar . Haas was considered a proven expert on the work of the writer Gertrude Stein .

Life

Haas earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 1938 and a master's degree in English from the University of Chicago in 1939 . In 1945 he earned a doctorate from Stanford University . His interest in Stein's work was aroused during his studies. After a long pen friendship from 1936, Stein and Haas first met in 1946 shortly before Stein's death.

From 1949 he taught at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1958 he was one of the founding members of the University's Arts and Humanities extension division . In 1970 Haas retired and spent most of the next few years in Germany.

One of his books on Stein, A Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Gertrude Stein , was published in 1971. The German version of the reading book for gradually getting to know Gertrude Stein was published in 1994 by Suhrkamp Verlag. In 1976 Haas published a biography of the photographer Eadweard Muybridge .

From 1986 to 1988, Haas chaired the Gertrude Stein Conferences and symposiums for American, French and German artists and students in Bilignin , the holiday and refuge of Stein and her partner Alice B. Toklas during World War II. In 1990 these conferences and symposia led to the study project Hommage à Gertrude Stein , organized by the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart . The project was completed in 1996 with the comprehensive event IMPULSE / Word Art Music Image Art 1990–1996 / Hommage à Gertrude Stein .

Haas died after a short illness on April 20, 2010 at the age of 94 in a hospital in Nürtingen . He left two sons, Peter and Robin Haas and his long-term partner Ia Wech. His first wife, Louise Krause Haas, died in 1982. A second marriage ended in divorce.

Works (selection)

  • Muybridge: Man in Motion. University of California Press, 1st edition, 1976, ISBN 978-0520024649
  • How to read and study Gertrude Stein. Hamburg, Achilla-Presse, Verlag-Buchhandel, 1993
  • Reading book to gradually get to know Gertrude Stein. Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, ​​1994, 1st edition, 1994

literature

  • Peter Assion : Said and done: an annotated bio-bibliography of Robert Bartlett Haas. Marburg / Lahn, Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Research at the University of Marburg, Working Group for Emigration Research, 1986

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Keith Thursby: Robert Bartlett Haas dies at 94; longtime UCLA educator studied writings of Gertrude Stein. Los Angeles Times , accessed February 28, 2012 .
  2. ^ Reinhard Döhl : Homage to Gertrude Stein. stuttgarter-schule.de, accessed on February 28, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Haas, Robert Bartlett
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Cruz , California , United States
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 2010
Place of death Nürtingen , Germany