Rudolf Hello

Rudolf Hallo (born September 26, 1898 in Kassel , † January 26, 1933 in Hamburg ) was a German art historian .

Life

Rudolf Hallo was the son of the decorative painter Wilhelm Hallo (1858–1928) and his wife Henriette, b. Plaut (1870-1928). After graduating from high school and participating in the First World War, he studied classical archeology and art history at the University of Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in 1923. In 1922 it went to the Free Jewish Teaching House in Frankfurt am Main , founded and run by Franz Rosenzweig , a friend of the Kassel family . At the end of 1922, due to a serious illness of Rosenzweig, he took over the management of the Lehrhaus from Rosenzweig, but gave it up in August 1923 due to fundamental differences of opinion with Rosenzweig, who remained his friend. He went back to Kassel and became a scientific assistant at the State Museum . Here he initially worked for the Landgraves' Kunstkammer, and from 1931 for the Kupferstichkabinett and the art library. He was also particularly active for the Jewish Museum, which opened in 1927 as part of the State Museum. In January 1933 he gave a lecture in the Warburg library for cultural studies in Hamburg, fell ill with pneumonia and died just a few days later in Bruno Snell's house in Hamburg . He was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Kassel-Bettenhausen .

On September 17, 1922, he married the economist Gertrud Hallo, b. Rubensohn, with whom he had two children, including the later ancient orientalist William W. Hallo (1928–2015). In 1939 the family managed to emigrate to England in time and in 1940 obtained a visa for the USA.

Publications (selection)

• The monumental altars of antiquity. Dissertation, Göttingen 1923 (unprinted).
• Bronze casts of ancient statues. In: Yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute . 42, 1927, ISSN  0931-7007 , pp. 193-220.
• Jewish folk art in Hesse. Festschrift of the Sinai Lodge in Kassel, ed. on the occasion of its 40th anniversary in 1928. Kassel 1928.
• Jewish cult and art monuments in the Hessian State Museum in Kassel. Represented as a picture of the history of the Jews in Hesse at the instigation and with the support of the Israelite community of Kassel and with the aid of the Jewish Museum Association in Kassel. Kassel 1928.
• Hello family history. 350 years of the life of a German family of court Jews and craftsmen are presented, explained and provided with illustrations. Private printing, Kassel 1930, DNB 580932230 .
• with Kurt Luthmer : The Kupferstichkabinett and the library of the Staatl. Art collections in Kassel. Kassel 1931; 2nd Edition. 1933.
• Jewish art from Hessen and Nassau. Berlin 1933.
• Rudolf Erich Raspe . A pioneer of German style and art. Stuttgart / Berlin 1934.
• Writings on art history in Kassel, collections, monuments, Judaica. Edited by Gunter Schweikhart . Kassel 1983.
• with STK: Christian Hebraists. In: Modern Judaism. Vol. 3, No. 1, Feb. 1983, pp. 95-116, JSTOR 1396168 (English translation, translated by Gertrud Hallo, commented by William Hallo).

literature

• Hans Möbius : Rudolf Hello. In: Gnomon . Volume 9, 1933, p. 112, JSTOR 27674756 .
• Gertrude Hello: The Hallos and Rubensohns. Three centuries of Jewish family life in Germany. New York 1962, pp. 30–35 ( digital.cjh.org [PDF; 40.7 MB]).
• Ekkehard Schmidberger: Rudolf Hallo and the Jewish Museum in Kassel. In: Jews in Kassel 1808–1933. Kassel 1986, pp. 59-67 ( wordpress.com [PDF; 1.2 MB]).
• Joel Kraemer: Hello, Rudolf. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . 2nd Edition. Volume 8. Thomson Gale, Detroit 2007, p. 282.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Hallo in the catalog of the German National Library