Werner Körte (art historian)

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Werner Hermann Ulrich Körte (born May 4, 1905 in Basel , † May 10, 1945 in Yugoslavia ) was a German art historian .

Life

Werner Körte was the son of the classical philologist Alfred Körte (1866–1946) and his wife Frieda, b. Gropius (1873–1963), a daughter of the architect Martin Gropius (1824–1880).

After attending the Berthold-Gymnasium in Freiburg (1914-1917) and the König-Albert-Gymnasium in Leipzig (1917-1924) he studied art history, classical archeology, history and philosophy in Leipzig and Munich and was in Leipzig in 1929 with Wilhelm Pinder PhD. In 1929 he received a scholarship to the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, in 1930 he became second, from 1931 to 1935 first assistant, and in 1935/36 he carried out research there with a scholarship. In 1936 he was at the University of Freiburg in Kurt Bauch habilitation and lecturer . In the summer semester of 1936 and in the winter semester of 1936/37 he took part in Martin Heidegger's seminar. In 1939 he was appointed a permanent university lecturer in Freiburg. He had been drafted for military service since the beginning of World War II . In the 1st trimester of 1940 he took up the position of the Extraordinate for Art History at the University of Innsbruck , but voluntarily renounced his UK position and was drafted again at the beginning of February 1941. In January 1942 an application for his appointment as a full professor was submitted; in the meantime he had also received an offer for a full professorship at the University of Graz . He did not return to Innsbruck and fell in Yugoslavia in May 1945.

His research areas included the history of architecture and the influence of German art on Italy.

His son is the architect Arnold Körte (* 1934).

Publications (selection)

  • The resumption of Romanesque designs in Dutch and German painting of the 15th and 16th centuries . Heckner, Wolfenbüttel 1930 (dissertation).
  • The Palazzo Zuccari in Rome. Its fresco decorations and its history (= Roman research of the Bibliotheca Hertziana 12) Keller, Leipzig 1935 ( digitized ).
  • German Vespers in Italy .: In: Römisches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 1, 1937, pp. 1–138 (habilitation thesis).
  • Giotto's “Navicella” . In: Festschrift Wilhelm Pinder for his 60th birthday . Leipzig 1938, pp. 223-263.
  • The Freiburg Minster . Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus u. a. 1940.
  • Albrecht Dürer. The Apocalypse (= Art Letter 51). Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1948.

literature

  • Gerhard Oberkofler: The historical subjects at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Innsbruck 1850-1945 . Oesterreichische Kommissionsbuchhandlung, Innsbruck 1969, pp. 212–215 Fig. 39 (photo).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Martin Heidegger: Exercises for Beginners: Schiller's Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man; Winter semester 1936/37 . Seminar transcript by Wilhelm Hallwachs. Edited by Ulrich von Bülow. With an essay by Odo Marquard (= Marbach Library 8). Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, Marbach am Neckar 2005, ISBN 3-937384-14-6 (therein pp. 149–168 Körtes lecture on Dürer's watercolor The Brown Hare ).
personal data
SURNAME Körte, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Körte, Werner Hermann Ulrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1945
Place of death Yugoslavia