Rudolf Walter Zeitler

Rudolf Walter Zeitler (born April 28, 1912 in Cologne ; died February 8, 2005 in Uppsala ) was a German - Swedish art historian .

Life

Rudolf Zeitler's father Eugen Zeitler (1880–1922) was an engineer, he died with his wife Elsa Kühn (1884–1922) in a mountain accident in Berchtesgaden . Zeitler then grew up with his two younger siblings with his Jewish grandfather, Chief Medical Officer Moritz Kühn, in Kaiserslautern , where he continued attending grammar school. The grandfather was disenfranchised during the Nazi era and deported to Camp de Gurs in 1940, his aunt was murdered in Auschwitz . In 1930 Rudolf Zeitler began studying history and art history in Munich, Marburg and Berlin. After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he had to flee to Czechoslovakia , where he could continue his studies. In 1936 he received his doctorate with Victor Ehrenberg in Prague with a dissertation on Sophocles . In 1937, faced with the Sudeten crisis , he fled to Sweden on a scholarship.

He found work as a teacher at a grammar school in Uppsala and in Gregor Paulsson a mentor at Uppsala University , where he received his doctorate on Renaissance medals. Zeitler joined the emigre organization Free German League of Culture . In 1946 he published a monograph on Albrecht Dürer . In 1947 he married the historian Hannelore Günthert (1919-), they had two children. He completed his habilitation in Uppsala in 1954 with a thesis on “Classicism and Utopia”, was appointed private lecturer and in 1964 professor. He translated Paulsson's work “Die Soziale Dimension der Kunst” (The Social Dimension of Art) into German (1955) and with Reclam's art guides he brought Scandinavian art closer to German readers . Between 1965 and 1977 he published the art historical, scientific journal Figura . Zeitler worked on the "neoclassical" of the 19th century and wrote the volume on the 19th century for Propylaea Art History in 1966 .

Fonts (selection)

• Sophocles and the Polis . Prague, 1936 Dissertation ms
• Albrecht Dürer . Med inledning av Bertil Malmberg . Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1946
• Stig Borglind  : en svensk grafiker; with oeuvre catalog and 48 splashers . Stockholm: Geber, 1948
• Classicism and Utopia: interpretations of works by David, Canova, Carstens, Thorwaldsen, Koch . Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell, 1954 Diss., Uppsala 1954
• 19th century art . Propylaea art history 11th Berlin: Propylaea publishing house, 1966
• Denmark: art monuments and museums . Stuttgart: Reclam, 1978
• with Hans Holländer , Gerd Wolandt : Studies on the work of A. Paul Weber . Hamburg: Christians, 1979 ISBN 978-3-7672-0626-7
• Sweden: art monuments and museums . Stuttgart: Reclam, 1985
• with Henrik Lilius : Reclam's Art Guide Finland . Stuttgart: Reclam, 1985
• Scandinavian art around 1900 . Leipzig: Seemann, 1990

literature

• Zeitler, Rudolf , in: Metzler-Kunsthistoriker-Lexikon , 2007, p. 532ff.
• Zeitler, Rudolf Walter , 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, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 806-809
• Zeitler, Rudolf Walter , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1276
• Anders Åman : It's a question of expression. On the death of the German-Jewish art historian Rudolf Zeitler , in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 18, 2005, p. 42

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Walter Zeitler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Rudolf Walter Zeitler in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Zeitler, Rudolf , in: dictionary of arthistorians

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gerd Maurer: Moritz Kühn , Alemania judaica. See also the list of stumbling blocks in Kaiserslautern
2. ↑ Figura, ISSN 0071-481X