Werner Goldschmidt (publisher)

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Werner Goldschmidt (born June 27, 1903 in Hildesheim ; died June 13, 1975 in Baden-Baden ) was a German art historian and music publisher .

Life

Werner Goldschmidt was a son of the businessman Max Goldschmidt and Helene Lowenthal. He attended the Gauß-Oberrealschule in Braunschweig , where he graduated from high school in 1923 . Then in the same year he began to study economics in Hamburg, which he had to break off in 1924 for economic reasons. Goldschmidt then worked as a commercial clerk. From 1929 he studied art history, archeology and literary history in Berlin and Rostock, where he received his doctorate in 1933 with a dissertation on Carl Gustav Carus under Richard Sedlmaier .

As a Jew in National Socialist Germany, Goldschmidt's career path was blocked and emigrated to Republican Spain in 1933 . He did research on Spanish medieval sculpture and took up teaching positions at the University of Barcelona . Due to the civil war , teaching in Barcelona was stopped in 1936.

Goldschmidt then lived with his family in Nice . During this time he published several art historical articles in The Burlington Magazine , Archivo Español de Arte , The Studio and The Connoisseur . When the Second World War broke out, Goldschmidt was interned by the French in Les Milles and then forced to do labor. When the south of France was also occupied by the Germans in 1942, Quakers gave him papers under the code name André Vernet.

After 1945 he tried to create a new life as an art dealer in Paris, which he did not succeed, and moving to Franco Spain was also out of the question. In 1952 he therefore returned to Germany and built one of the first advertising agencies for outdoor advertising , which had the cigarette company Reemtsma among its clients . From 1958 Goldschmidt was a partner in a record company and in 1962 he founded WERGO , which only published modern and contemporary music recordings. WERGO had international success and set up branches in London and Los Angeles. The WERGO editions have repeatedly received record awards. The WERGO company was taken over by the music publisher B. Schott's Sons in 1970 . Goldschmidt tried to found an art magazine, but died of an illness.

Fonts (selection)

  • The landscape letters of Carl Gustav Carus, their significance for the theory of romantic landscape painting . Breslau: Schatzki, 1935. Zugl .: Rostock, University, Diss., 1933

literature

  • Goldschmidt, Werner , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, p. 219f.
  • Matthias Pasdzierny: Resumption? Return from exile and West German musical life after 1945 (= continuities and breaks in musical life after the war). Munich: text + kritik, 2014

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NN: 50 years of the Gaußschule 1909–1959. Festschrift of the Gaußschule Braunschweig on the 50th anniversary, Braunschweig 1959, p. 105.
  2. ^ Entry from May 13, 1932 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Works and contributions , with Ulrike Wendland: Biographisches Handbuch , 1999, p. 220
personal data
SURNAME Goldschmidt, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1975
Place of death Baden-Baden