Stephen Sally Kayser

Stephen Sally Kayser (born as Stefan Salli Kayser December 23, 1900 in Karlsruhe ; died 1988 in Los Angeles ) was a German-American art historian.

Life

Stefan Kayser was a son of Siegbert Kayser and Mina Hilb. He attended the humanistic grammar school in Karlsruhe, was drafted into the First World War in 1918 , and from 1919 studied art history, philosophy and musicology in Karlsruhe and Heidelberg. He received his doctorate from the philosopher Heinrich Rickert in Heidelberg in 1922 . Kayser wrote as a columnist and theater critic for the Mannheimer Zeitung and published works on art history. He also painted. In 1930 he married the artist Louise Darmstaedter, they had one child.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, both saw themselves forced to emigrate and went to Czechoslovakia in 1935. In Brno he found work as the successor to Max Deri at the Masaryk Adult Education Center. In 1938 they emigrated to the USA.

Kayser worked at scientific institutes and libraries first in New York and then on the west coast in Los Angeles. In 1943/44 he worked as a draftsman in the war industry, in 1944 he became a professor at San José State College . In 1947 he returned to New York and was curator and exhibition director at the Jewish Museum in New York City until 1963, where he organized exhibitions by Maria Piechotka , Maurycy Gottlieb , Max Band , Irving Kriesberg and Yehoshua Kovarsky , among others . He also served as an Associate Professor of Jewish Art at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) in New York. Kayser returned to Los Angeles in 1963 to attend the University of Judaism (AJU) and was visiting professor from 1966 to 1970 and then lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) until 1976 .

Fonts (selection)

• with Guido Schoenberger (Ed.): Jewish ceremonial art; a guide to the appreciation of the art objects used in synagogue and home, principally from the collections of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America . Philadelphia, 1955
• The Book of Books in art, a selection of Biblical paintings and sculptures; five centuries of Western civilization . New York, Shengold Publishers, 1956
• The shapes of time: oral history transcript . Interview Sybil D Hast. University of California, Los Angeles. Oral History Program. 1987
  • Escape lines . Interview by Sybil D. Hast; translated and edited by Petra Weckel. Foreword Guy Stern. Berlin: Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, 2016 ISBN 978-3-945256-57-2 , table of contents
• Exhibition catalogs

literature

• Kayser, Stephen Sally , 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 , p. 363f.
• Kayser, Stephen S , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 608f.
• Kayser, Louise D. , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 191
• Shalom Sabar; Steven Fine; William M Kramer: A crown for a king: Studies in Jewish art, history, and archeology in memory of Stephen S. Kayser . Berkeley, Calif .: Judah L. Magnes Museum, 2000

Web links

• Literature by and about Kayser, Stephen S. in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Stephen Sally Kayser in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Lee Sorensen: Kayser, Stephen Sally , at dictionary of arthistorians
• Louise Kayser-Darmstädter , at the Wilhelm Fraenger Society