Rudolf Bernoulli

Rudolf Bernoulli

Rudolf Bernoulli (born December 24, 1880 in Basel , † October 9, 1948 in Zurich ) was a Swiss art historian .

Life

Rudolf Bernoulli was the son of the office employee Theodor Bernoulli (1837–1909) and Maria Bieder (1845–1920) and brother of Elisabeth Bernoulli and Hans Bernoulli . In 1906 he received his doctorate from the University of Bern. From 1906 to 1925 he worked at the art library in Berlin. From April 1, 1925 to 1947 he was curator of the graphic collection at ETH Zurich and lecturer in art history, since 1935 with the title of professor.

He belonged to the circle around Carl Gustav Jung , in 1934 and 1935 he gave lectures at the Eranos conferences. He dealt with occultism and was one of the founders of the Hermetic Society around the medium Oskar R. Schlag .

Publications (selection)

• The Romanesque portal architecture in Provence . Heitz, Strasbourg 1906. (Dissertation, digitized version )
• Occultism and fine arts. Lecture given at the German Occult Society in Berlin on November 7, 1919 . Baum, Berlin 1919.
• Selected masterpieces of East Asian graphics in the library for arts and crafts in Berlin . CF Schulz & Co., Plauen 1923.
• Swiss graphics in the late Renaissance and Baroque periods. A guide through the holdings of the graphic collection of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich . Zurich 1936.
• My way to clover. Marginal notes on an exhibition of his graphic work in the Federal Collection of Graphics in Zurich in 1940 . Benteli, Bern 1940.

literature

• Nekrolog Rudolf Bernoulli, 1880–1948 . Basel 1948.
• René Bernoulli: The Bernoulli family . Basel 1972, No. 466.