Werner Weisbach

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Werner Weisbach (born September 1, 1873 in Berlin ; † April 9, 1953 in Basel ) was a German art historian .

Life

Werner Weisbach was the son of a stockbroker. From 1891 he studied art history and classical archeology in Freiburg i.Br., Berlin, Munich and Leipzig. In 1896 he received his doctorate on the subject of Der Meister der Bergmannschen Offizin and Albrecht Dürer's relationship to Basel book illustration . During this time he converted to Protestantism. From 1896 he lived in Berlin again. Study trips took him to Italy, Holland, England, Paris, Spain, Russia and North Africa. In 1903 he married and in the same year completed his habilitation with Heinrich Wölfflin with a thesis on Francesco Pesellino and the Romanticism of the Renaissance . From 1904 he was a private lecturer and read about the painting of impressionism. He did not receive a professorship in Frankfurt / Main that he was aiming for. During the First World War, during the November Revolution and in the Weimar Republic, he stood up for peace and liberal democracy . From 1910 to 1935 he was a member of the Berlin Wednesday Society . In 1921 he was appointed non-regular professor and in 1926 regular professor at the University of Berlin. Weisbach conducted research on Mannerism and Baroque art. After his dismissal from service as a non-Aryan by the National Socialists in 1933, he emigrated to Basel in 1935, where he became a private scholar. His subjects were early Christian and medieval art, as well as the art of Vincent van Gogh. His autobiography in two parts contains a lot of information on the history of culture and science.

Weisbach made contributions to the understanding of the art of the Renaissance, the Baroque and the early and high Middle Ages.

Fonts (selection)

  • Impressionism. A problem of painting in antiquity and modern times , Grote, Berlin 1910.
  • Trionfi , Grote, Berlin 1919.
  • The Baroque as Art of the Counter Reformation , Paul Cassirer, Berlin 1921.
  • The art of the baroque in Italy, Germany, France and Spain , Propylaea, Berlin 1924.
  • And everything is destroyed, memories from the turn of the century , Verlag Herbert Reichner, Vienna 1937.
  • Spirit and violence (memoirs 1902–1940), Schroll, Vienna 1956.

literature

  • Klaus Scholder : The Wednesday company. Protocols from intellectual Germany 1932–1944. 2nd Edition. Severin and Siedler, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-88680-030-X , pp. 25ff., 83, 101.
  • 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. 728-732.
  • Peter Betthausen , Peter H. Feist , Christiane Fork (eds.): Metzler-Kunsthistoriker-Lexikon . 210 portraits of German-speaking authors from four centuries , 2nd edition, Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart and Weimar 2007, ISBN 3-476-01535-1 , p. 458ff.
  • Weisbach, Werner , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 383

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Scholder: The Wednesday Society. Protocols from intellectual Germany 1932–1944. 2nd Edition. Severin and Siedler, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-88680-030-X , p. 368.
  2. Ulrike Wendland: Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Art Historians in Exile. Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-110-96573-5 , p. 732 ( limited preview in Google book search).