Sabine Gova

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Sabine Gova , also Gowa, (born Sabine Spiero May 6, 1901 in Groß Borstel near Hamburg ; died March 23, 2000 ) was a German art historian .

Life

Sabine Spiero was a daughter of the Germanist Heinrich Spiero and Olga Jolowicz (1877–1960), she had three sisters: Josepha Spiero (1903–1988) married Max Adolf Warburg, son of Aby Warburg , Ursula Filene Spiero (1906–1967) and Christiane Spiero-Ilisch (1911–2008).

Spiero attended a preliminary course at the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1921/22 and had an advocate in Johannes Itten . She studied art history, archeology, history and philosophy in Munich, Frankfurt, Berlin and Marburg; she was organized in the Republican Student Cartel. Spiero married the set designer and painter Henry Gowa in 1929, and they divorced in 1936. In Marburg, Gowa-Spiero received his doctorate from Richard Hamann in 1933 with a dissertation on the Altes Museum by Friedrich Schinkel , the dissertation appeared in the yearbook of the Prussian art collections in 1934 and was published in 1935 by Paul Ortwin Rave in the Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte and in 1936 by Heinz Ladendorf in the Journal of the Association for the History of Berlin . A habilitation failed because of the National Socialist racial policy.

In August 1933 Gowa emigrated to Paris and made her way as a multilingual museum guide in the Louvre . When, in 1937, as a tour guide for German visitors at the 1937 Paris World Exhibition, she criticized National Socialism, it aroused the diplomatic displeasure of the German legation in Paris . In exile in Paris in 1937 she was one of the founders of the German Association of Artists, from 1938 "Freier Künstlerbund" ("Union des artistes libres"), and sat on the board with Max Ernst and Paul Westheim . At the same time, she studied art history at the École du Louvre , where she graduated in 1939 in the hope of being able to start a professional life in France.

After the German conquest of France in 1940, Gova was imprisoned in the Gurs internment camp , but was able to flee to Bayonne and escape as a stowaway to the Vichy-French colony of Morocco in Casablanca . One of her sisters got her an affidavit in 1941 for entry into the USA. In New York, she made her way as a cleaning assistant and museum guide.

In 1949 Gova worked part-time as a freelancer for the UN . In 1957 she was given a teaching position as Adjunct Associate Professor at Fordham University and from 1960 she worked as an assistant professor at St. Peter's College in New York and Jersey City. In 1967 she returned to France.

Fonts (selection)

  • Sabine Spiero: Schinkel's Altes Museum in Berlin , in: Yearbook of the Prussian Art Collections , 1934, supplement, pp. 41–86
  • Sabine Gova: Heinrich Spiero - a memorial for his eighty-fifth birthday . In: Deutsche Rundschau . 87, pp. 250-254 (1961)
  • Sabine Gowa (contribution) in: Dolla, Isnard, Viallat . Genoa: Masnata, 1974
  • Sabine Gova: Castelnau d'Estrétefonds: mille ans de culture et d'agriculture toulousaines . Castelnau d'Estrétefonds: Vivre et connaître Castelnau d'Estrétefonds, 1987

literature

  • Gova, Sabine , 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, p. 235f.
  • Anna Rohr: Dr. Heinrich Spiero (1876–1947). His work for Christians of Jewish origin under the Nazi regime . Berlin: Metropol, 2015 ISBN 978-3-86331-269-5 . Short biography of Sabine Spiero: pp. 119–122
  • Gabriele Hofner-Kulenkamp: Do you know Sabine Gova? German-speaking art historians in exile . In: Kritischeberichte , 22, 1994, Heft 4, S. 35f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Quaker School Eerde
  2. ↑ Volker Wahl (Ed.), Ute Ackermann (Ed.): The Master Council Protocols of the State Bauhaus Weimar: 1919 to 1925 . Weimar: Böhlau, 2001 ISBN 978-3-7400-1070-6 , p. 171
  3. ↑ Susanne Rosendahl: Eugen Gowa , at the State Center for Political Education Hamburg, September 2018
personal data
SURNAME Gova, Sabine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gowa, Sabine; Spiero, Sabine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Borstel
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 2000