Walter Friedlaender

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Walter Ferdinand Friedlaender (born March 10, 1873 in Glogau , † September 6, 1966 in New York ) was a German art historian . He emigrated to the USA in 1933 and taught at New York University .

life and work

Walter Friedlaender was born to Sigismund Friedlaender and Anna Joachimsthal. Since his parents died early, he moved to Berlin with an older sister . He studied Sanskrit at the Berlin University and received his doctorate in 1898 . He discovered his interest in art history on a subsequent postdoctoral fellowship at the British Museum in London . After returning to Berlin, he studied art history at the university with Heinrich Wölfflin . From 1907 to 1911 he worked at the Prussian Historical Institute in Rome. In 1912 he published an investigation into the frescoes by Federico Barocci , and in 1914 his book on Nicolas Poussin appeared . In the same year he married Emma Cardin and became a private lecturer at Wilhelm Vöge's institute at the University of Freiburg . In 1921 he was appointed associate professor. He taught there until he was dismissed in 1933, at the age of 60, on the basis of the law to restore the civil service . Important works on Mannerism appeared in 1925 and 1930, published by the Warburg Library . Erwin Panofsky and Hanns Swarzenski were among his students, and Robert Goldwater was in exile in New York .

Friedlaender emigrated to the USA , where, with Panofsky's help, he found a temporary position at the University of Pennsylvania and finally in 1935 a permanent position at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University . Here he taught and conducted research continues to Poussin ( Drawings of Nicolas Poussin , 3 volumes, 1939-55), the mannerism in art ( Mannerism and Anti-Mannerism in Italian Painting , 1957) and the art of the 16th and 17th centuries ( Caravaggio Studies , 1955). From 1939 he was co-editor of The Art Bulletin published by the College Art Association . In 1961 he became a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • Drawings of Nicolas Poussin . 3 volumes, 1939–55.
  • with Anthony Blunt : Drawings of Nicolas Poussin. Catalog raisonne . Vol. 5 (Studies of the Warburg Institute), London 1974, ISBN 978-0-85481-048-2 .
  • David to Delacroix . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1952.
  • Caravaggio Studies , 1955.
  • Mannerism and Anti-Mannerism in Italian Painting (Interpretations in Art) . Columbia University Press, New York 1957. Reprinted 1990, ISBN 978-0-231-02024-4 .
  • Roman baroque fountain . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922 ( Library of Art History 32)

literature

  • Kurt Bauch : Obituary for Walter Friedländer . In: Kunstchronik 19, 1966, pp. 377–379.
  • Willibald Sauerländer : Walter Friedländer 10.3.1873–6.9. 1966 . In: Freiburger Universitätsblätter 15, 1967, pp. 57–60.
  • Karen Michels : Transplanted Art History. German-language art history in American exile , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1999, p.
  • 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. 174-179.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The emergence of the anti-classical style in Italian painting around 1530 . In: Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft 46, 1925, pp. 49–86.
  2. ↑ The anti-maniery style around 1590 and its relationship to the supernatural . In: Lectures of the Warburg Library 1928-29 , 1930, pp. 214–243.
personal data
SURNAME Friedlaender, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedlaender, Walter Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Glogau
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1966
Place of death New York City