Walter Fries (art historian)

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Walter Fries , completely Hans Karl Emil Walter Fries , (born September 23, 1890 in Augsburg , † July 10, 1934 in Nuremberg ) was a German art historian .

Life

Walter Fries, son of a doctor, studied art history in Munich, Berlin and Freiburg . He was unable to finish his dissertation, which was scheduled for autumn 1914, as he was drafted into the war on August 2, 1914. He went through the war in France until he was taken prisoner by the English in the spring of 1917, and in 1919 he was exchanged due to illness.

Before completing his dissertation, he became a volunteer at the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg on September 15, 1919, and here after his doctorate with Hans Jantzen in Freiburg as a museum assessor. He became an employee of the general director Ernst Heinrich Zimmermann and in 1921 was appointed curator, in 1928 chief curator.

His dissertation on the early Renaissance sculptor Hans Daucher pointed the way for his further work. Although the work was not published, it formed the basis for later biographies and reviews of Daucher's work.

At the museum, Walter Fries worked alongside the processing of the new acquisitions and the reorganization of the holdings and prepared the museum's two major exhibitions on Albrecht Dürer in 1928 and on Nuremberg painting from 1350 to 1450 in 1931. He died young of a lung disease that he contracted while a prisoner of war.

Walter Fries married Paula Wilhelmine Luise Merkel (1895–1974) in 1920. The couple had three children.

Publications (selection)

See also the list of publications in: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums 1934/35, pp. 43–44.

  • Hans Daucher . Dissertation Freiburg 1919 (unprinted).
  • Contributions to the General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present. Leipzig (about volume 16, 1923).
  • The St. Sebaldus Church in Nuremberg (= German buildings 10). Castle near Magdeburg 1928.
  • Article by Walter Fries in the Anzeiger of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum

literature

  • Eberhard Lutze, Friedrich Bock: Walter Fries (1890–1934). In: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums 1934/35, pp. 39–42 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Manfred Tripps: Review of Thomas Eser: Hans Daucher. Augsburg small sculpture of the Renaissance. In: Journal für Kunstgeschichte 1, 1997, p. 67.
  2. ↑ PhD chemist, dissertation Contribution to knowledge of 2-methyl-4-phenyl- and 2, 4, 6-trimethylquinoline, as well as pinacyanol . Erlangen 1919; Genealogical page about her .
  3. ↑ Eberhard Lutze, Friedrich Bock: Walter Fries (1890-1934). In: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums 1934/35, p. 39.
personal data
SURNAME Fries, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fries, Hans Karl Emil Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1934
Place of death Nuremberg