Theodor Hetzer

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Theodor Hetzer (born July 16, 1890 in Charkow , † December 27, 1946 in Überlingen on Lake Constance ) was a German art historian .

Life

Hetzer studied art history , classical archeology and philosophy in Freiburg with Wilhelm Vöge and in Berlin with Heinrich Wölfflin . His most important teacher in Berlin, however, was Friedrich Rintelen , with whom he received his doctorate in 1915 at the University of Basel . He completed his habilitation under Wilhelm Pinder at the University of Leipzig in 1923 and then taught art history there, from 1929 as an associate professor and from 1935 to 1945 as a full professor.

He was considered an outspoken connoisseur of the art of Giotto , Titian and Raphael and dealt with Dürer and the influences of German art on Italian painting of the 16th century . His writings also deal with Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt , with the crisis in painting around 1800 with Francisco de Goya and the resurgence of painting with Paul Cézanne .

Hetzer was praised for his vivid, sensitive and verbal debates on works of art and art historical epochs and styles. Hetzer writes that he mostly wrote down what “ insights and thoughts [...] came to him over the years. [...] In the texts for the individual pictures, it was my intention to clarify the order and beauty of this art. "(From" Schriften; Volume 4: Bild als Bau ", p. 201.)

In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . In 1936 he was elected a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

Hetzer died of a heart condition on December 27, 1946 in his adopted home in Überlingen on Lake Constance . Theodor-Hetzer-Straße in Überlingen is named after him.

Publications (selection)

  • Titian's early paintings. A style-critical investigation . Schwabe, Basel 1920 (dissertation).
  • The German element in 16th century Italian painting . Berlin 1929.
  • Thoughts on Raphael's form . Frankfurt am Main 1932.
  • Titian. History of its color . Frankfurt am Main 1935.
Collected Works

His collected works appeared from 1981 to 1998 on a total of 4152 pages under the title: Theodor Hetzer: Writings in nine volumes in the Urachhaus publishing house in Stuttgart. The edition was supervised by his student Gertrude Berthold and provided with an editorial note for each volume. His colleague and friend Werner Gross wrote the introduction .

The content of the individual volumes:

  • Volume 1: Giotto - Foundation of Modern Art: Giotto, his position in European art; Reflections on Giotto's Ognissanti Madonna in Florence; The story of Joachim u. Johanna in the arena chapel in Padua; About Giotto's simplicity.
  • Volume 2: Dürer's visual art: On Dürer's objectivity; Dürer's German form; Dürer's Little Passion; his portraits; about Dürer's marginal drawings in the prayer book of Emperor Maximilian; a picture of Mary by Dürer.
  • Volume 3: The Ornamental and the Shape: The German Element in Italian Painting of the 16th Century. and with the individual artists (Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raffael, Tizian, Correggio etc.). The creative union of antiquity and the north in the High Renaissance; German painters of the 15th and 16th centuries.
  • Volume 4: Image as building, elements of image design from Giotto to Tiepolo: About the relationship between painting and architecture; from the plastic in painting; Thoughts about Raphael's form; the Sistine Madonna; Tiepolo's frescoes in the Würzburg Residence.
  • Volume 5: Rubens and Rembrandt; Rembrandt and Giotto.
  • Volume 6: Italian Architecture in the 15th and 16th Centuries; Memories of Italian architecture.
  • Volume 7: Titian: History of his color, the early paintings, portraits , edited by Gertrude Berthold, Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-87838-906-X .
  • Volume 8: Venetian painting from the beginnings to the death of Tintoretto.
  • Volume 9: History of the Image from Antiquity to Cézanne: The Revival of Classical Antiquity; Studies on the history of the image; Goya and the fine arts; Goethe's Italian journey; Cézanne Notes; about the plane in painting; of the great work of art; Michelangelo Notes; Mantegna; Donatello; Claude Lorrain; Klinger's commemorative speech.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eugen Schnering: Überlingen - city history in street names . 2nd unchanged edition. Verlag der Gesellschaft der Kunstfreunde Überlingen eV, Überlingen 1998, p. 191-192 .
personal data
SURNAME Hetzer, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hetzer, Theodor Johann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Kharkiv
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1946
Place of death Überlingen on Lake Constance