Walter Riezler

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Walter Riezler (born October 2, 1878 in Munich ; † January 22, 1965 ibid) was a German classical archaeologist , art historian and later musicologist .

Life

Walter Riezler came from a middle-class family . His parents were the businessman Heinrich Riezler († 1889) and his wife Margarethe, née Heffner, his younger brother was Kurt Riezler (1882–1955). After attending Luitpold High School , he studied philosophy, classical philology, art history and classical archeology at the University of Munich . He studied archeology with Adolf Furtwängler , whose son Wilhelm was temporarily taught piano and classical languages ​​by Riezler, and later he was also tutor to Adolf von Hildebrand's son in Florence. After the state examinations in 1900 and 1901, Riezler started working with Adolf Furtwängler in 1902 with the work The Parthenon and Vase Painting. PhD studies in Attic vase history .

From 1904 to 1906 he received musical training from Felix Mottl and Max Reger , wrote music reviews and considered a career as a conductor. However, he initially became an assistant at the Staatliche Antikensammlungen in Munich. Riezler was a founding member of the German Werkbund in 1907 and published its magazine Die Form (5 issues, 1922 and 1927–1933).

From 1910 until his dismissal in 1933/34 he was director of the Stettin City Museum . In this function he had, among other things, reproduced several Greek bronze statues, which were often reproduced as images. He also occupied himself with Attic vase painting , for which he published the monumental work White-ground Attic Lekyths in 1914 . Riezler was one of the cultural centers of Szczecin. As a proponent of modern art , he was opposed by the conservative, folk-national circles of Szczecin. After the National Socialist seizure of power he was suspended in April 1933 and Wolfgang Lotz took over the editing of Form . On September 30, 1934, Riezler was put into early retirement because of "non-conformity with the nationalist conception of art". The National Socialists finally closed the magazine one year later. His successor as museum director was Otto Holtze . Riezler settled as a private scholar in Irschenhausen near Munich, where he devoted himself to his musicological studies. His attempt to emigrate was unsuccessful.

After the war, Riezler turned entirely to musicology. In 1946 Riezler received an honorary professorship for modern music history and general art teaching at the University of Munich. In 1947 he became a member of the music section of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts .

His book about the composer Ludwig van Beethoven had a double-digit print run in Germany alone, and it was also translated into several other languages. Wilhelm Furtwängler contributed the foreword.

Fonts (selection)

  • White-ground Attic lekyths. According to Adolf Furtwängler's selection . Bruckmann, Munich 1914.
  • The cultural work of the Deutscher Werkbund . Bruckmann, Munich 1916.
  • Hans Pfitzner and the German stage . Piper, Munich 1917.
  • Beethoven . Atlantis, Berlin 1936 (extended new editions Zurich 1951, 1962, 1966, 1971, 1983 and Berlin 1971).
  • Unity of arts. Universitas artium (= intellectual Munich booklet 9). Three spruces, Munich 1947.
  • Schubert's instrumental music. Work analyzes ( Atlantic library ). Atlantis, Zurich and Freiburg 1967.

literature

  • Hans Vogel: Walter Riezler and the intellectual culture of Stettin before 1933 . In: Baltic Studies NF 53, 1967, pp. 83–92
  • Wolfgang Schiering : Appendix. In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (Ed.) Archaeologists' portraits . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , p. 331.
  • Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 2: L – Z. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 550-553.
  • Bernfried Lichtnau: Dr. Walter Riezler and Dr. Otto Holtze - two Szczecin museum directors between 1910 and 1945 / Dr Walter Riezler i dr Otto Holtze - dwaj szczecińscy dyrektorzy Muzeum Miejskiego w latach 1910–1945 . In: Kazimierz Kozłowski (ed.): Muzealnicy, archiwiści i bibliotekarze szczecińscy w XX wieku / Szczecin museum employees, archivists and librarians in the 20th century . Stettin 2002, ISBN 83-87561-13-4 , pp. 39-58.
  • Eva Chrambach:  Walter Riezler. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 617 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Christian Tilitzki : advocate of artistic modernism - the Szczecin museum director Walter Riezler . In: Baltic Studies . New series, Volume 103 (2017), Kiel 2018, pp. 159–182

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ see website of the BKGE: Archivführer Stettin / 0305 Städtisches Museum Stettin (Muzeum Miasta Szczecina) (accessed on November 6, 2011).
  2. ↑ Hans Vogel: Walter Riezler and the spiritual culture of Stettin before 1933 . In: Baltic Studies NF 53, 1967. pp. 83–92.
  3. ^ Deutscher Werkbund NW - On Historiography (accessed on November 7, 2011).
  4. ↑ Ulrike Wendland: Biographical Handbook of German-speaking Art Historians in Exile , p. 551.
  5. ↑ Walter Riezler: Beethoven , New York 1938, https://archive.org/details/beethovenwithint00riez
personal data
SURNAME Riezler, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1965
Place of death Munich