Trude Krautheimer-Hess

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Trude Krautheimer-Hess (born February 11, 1902 in Erfurt , † September 12, 1987 in Rome ) was a German-American art historian .

Trude Hess came from a wealthy Jewish industrial family, her father was the shoe manufacturer Georg Hess, her mother Frida Hess, nee. Heilbronn. Her parents were victims of the Holocaust . Through her uncle Alfred Hess , an important collector of Expressionist works , she came into contact with art and art historians at an early age. She later inherited several paintings from him, including one by Emil Nolde .

She studied art history at the universities of Jena , Frankfurt and Berlin and in 1928 at the Art History Institute in Frankfurt with the thesis "The figural sculpture of East Lombardy 1100-1178" doctorate . In March 1924 she married the art historian Richard Krautheimer and lived with him in Marburg . In August 1933 she emigrated with her husband to Rome and at the end of 1935 to the USA, where they lived first in Louisville , from 1937 in Poughkeepsie and from 1952 in New York . In 1971 they moved to Rome.

Trude Krautheimer supported her husband in his research, especially on the architect Lorenzo Ghiberti . In the 1950s–60s she brought together an important collection of hand drawings by Italian artists, which was auctioned in 1996.

Some of your personal and art-historical documents are kept at the Bibliotheca Hertziana as an inheritance .

Publications

  • The figural sculpture of Eastern Lombardy from 1100–1178. In: Marburg Yearbook for Art History. 4, 1928, pp. 231-307.
  • with Richard Krautheimer: Lorenzo Ghiberti. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1956; revised editions 1970, 1982.
  • More Ghibertiana. In: The Art Bulletin. 46, 1964, pp. 307-321.
  • Italian Master Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Richard Krautheimer. The Gallery, Department of Art, Duke University, Durham (NC) 1966.

literature

  • Krautheimer-Hess, Trude , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 1: A – K. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 386f.
  • Old master drawings including 17th century Italian drawings from The Ferretti Di Castelferretto Collection; the property of the late Professor Doctor Richard Krautheimer and Doctor Trude Krautheimer-Hess, the executors of the late Miss Sybella Jane Bailey and from various sources. Christie's, London (July 2, 1996)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fabian Jonietz, Wolf-Dietrich Lohr: "Per non tediare i Lectori" qualche parola d`introduzione. In: Ghiberti teorico: natura, arte e coscienza storica nel Quattrocento. Officina Libraria, Milan, 2019, ISBN 978-88-3367-076-8 , pp. 7–25, here p. 16.
  2. ↑ Jonietz, Löhr 2019, p. 23, note 42.
personal data
SURNAME Krautheimer-Hess, Trude
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hess, Trude (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1987
Place of death Rome