Theodor von Frimmel

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Theodor von Frimmel-Traisenau (born December 15, 1853 in Amstetten , † December 25, 1928 in Vienna ) was an Austrian art historian and Beethoven researcher.

biography

Frimmel attended high school in Vienna, then studied medicine and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . From autumn 1881 to May 1883 he worked at the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry . Then he was from 1884 to 1893 curator at the Vienna Court Museum , later director of the Gallery of Count Schönborn-Wiesentheid and lecturer at Vienna Athenaeum of Ludo Hartmann . His Beethoven research is of lasting importance. Frimmel was one of the last people who could still question the composer's contemporaries . His estate, including numerous letters, is now in the Beethoven House in Bonn .

In 1940 the Frimmelgasse in Vienna- Döbling (19th district) was named after him.

Fonts (selection)

Art history studies
  • Joseph Anton Koch , Leipzig 1884 (= art and artists of the 19th century, Lfg. 16)
  • On the criticism of Dürer's Apocalypse and his coat of arms with the death's head , Vienna 1884
  • The Apocalypse in the Illuminated Manuscripts of the Middle Ages. An art historical study , Vienna 1885
  • The Anonimo Morelliano , 2 volumes, Vienna 1888/89 - Reprint Hildesheim 1974
  • List of paintings in Graflich-Schönborn-Wiesentheid'schem possessions , Pommersfelden 1894
  • Handbook of Painting Studies , Leipzig 1894 - 3rd revised. u. heavily probable edition, Leipzig 1920
  • Painted galleries , 2nd revised edition, Berlin 1896
  • Marco Antonio Michiel - notizia d'opere del disegno, ed.critica a cura di Theodor Frimmel , Vienna 1896
  • On seeing in art history. A study of the philosophy of art , Vienna 1897
  • History of the Vienna painting collections , Munich 1899
  • State of the art art. A sketch , Munich-Leipzig 1904
  • Sheets for painting , 7 volumes, 1904–1912 (journal)
  • On the methodology and psychology of painting determination , 2nd edition, Munich and Leipzig 1905
  • Studies and sketches for painting , 6 volumes, 1913–1922 (magazine)
  • Lexicon of the Vienna Painting Collections , 2 volumes, Munich 1913/14
  • Of old and new art , Vienna 1922 (selected essays on art history)
  • List of paintings in the Matsvanszky Collection (Vienna) , Vienna 1922
  • New sheets for painting , 1 volume, 1922/23 (magazine)
Beethoven studies
  • Beethoven and Goethe. A study , Vienna 1883
  • New Beethoveniana , Vienna 1888; New edition 1890
  • Josef Danhauser and Beethoven. A study from the international exhibition for music and theater . Dedicated to all of Beethoven's friends , Vienna 1892
  • Ludwig van Beethoven , Berlin 1901
  • Beethoven Studies , Volume 1, Beethoven's appearance , Leipzig and Munich 1905
  • Beethoven studies , volume 2, building blocks for a life story of the master , Leipzig and Munich 1906
  • Comments on the allegedly “critical” edition of Beethoven's letters , Vienna 1907
  • Beethoven yearbook , 2 volumes, Munich and Leipzig 1908/09
  • Beethoven letters , 5 volumes, 1910–1911
  • Beethoven research. Loose leaves , 9 booklets, Vienna 1911–1925
  • Beethoven in a contemporary portrait , Vienna 1923
  • Ludwig van Beethoven. Thematic directory by Gustav Nottebohm together with the Biblioteca Beethoveniana by Emerich Kastner, supplemented by Theodor Frimmel , Leipzig 1925
  • Beethoven manual , 2 volumes, Leipzig 1926
Essays

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Theodor Frimmel von Traisenau  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amstetten St. Stephan baptismal register, tom. IX, fol. 148 ( facsimile ). In the literature, December 25, 1853 is sometimes given.
personal data
SURNAME Frimmel, Theodor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frimmel-Traisenau, Theodor von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Amstetten
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1928
Place of death Vienna