Wilhelm Suida (art historian)

Wilhelm Emil Suida (born April 25, 1877 in Neunkirchen , Austria-Hungary ; died October 29, 1959 in New York ) was an Austrian-American art historian . He was considered an expert on painting in the Italian Renaissance .

Life

Wilhelm Suida was the son of Albert Suida (* around 1848; † 1894) and his wife Bertha (born von Hein). His mother was related to Richard Wagner , the art historian Henry Thode was his uncle. He attended grammar school in Vienna and then studied art history with Alois Riegl and Franz Wickhoff at the University of Vienna , as well as in Leipzig and finally with his uncle in Heidelberg. Here he wrote his dissertation in 1899 on the genre representations by Albrecht Dürer . From 1902 to 1904 he worked as an assistant at the Art History Institute in Florence , where he researched his habilitation thesis. He returned to Vienna and received his habilitation in 1905 at the University of Vienna , where he taught as a private lecturer , from 1909 to 1910 he taught as an honorary lecturer at the Technical University of Graz. From 1910 to 1921 he was director of the picture gallery of the Joanneum in Graz. In 1911 he became an associate professor for modern art history at the University of Graz alongside Hermann Egger . During the First World War he served as a captain. From 1922 he was editor of the art magazine Belvedere .

Between 1934 and 1938 he was on leave from university. After the annexation of Austria and the takeover by the National Socialists , he left his home country as an opposition and emigrated to the USA via England in 1939 . Here he became an advisor to the art collector Samuel H. Kress and from 1947 head of the department of art-historical research at his foundation, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. In 1947 he became an American citizen.

family

Suida married Hermine Eugenie Satory († 1956). They had a daughter Bertina (* 1922; † 1992), who studied art history at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University . She married her fellow student Robert Lee Manning, whom Suida found a job as curator for the Kress collection. His daughter Bertina became the curator of the Chrysler Collection . The family put together their own art collection of mostly baroque art objects. After Suida's death in 1959, the collection initially remained with his family and in 1999 was bequeathed to the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin as the Suida Manning Collection .

Publications (selection)

See Bibliography of the writings of William E. Suida. In: Studies in the history of art dedicated to William E. Suida on his eightieth birthday. Phaidon Press, London 1959, pp. 393-402.

Wilhelm Suida: Albrecht Dürer's genre representations (= studies on German art history . Volume 27 ). Heitz, Strasbourg 1900 ( archive.org - dissertation).
Vienna. The imperial painting gallery (= Modern Cicerone . Volume 1 ). Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig 1903.
Vienna. The picture gallery of the kk Akademie d. fine arts, the Liechtenstein, Czernin, Harrach and Schönborn-Buchheim collections (= Modern Cicerone . Volume 2 ). Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig 1904.
Wilhelm Suida: Florentine painters around the middle of the 14th century . Heitz, Strasbourg 1905 ( archive.org - habilitation thesis).
Genoa (= Famous Art Places . Volume 33 ). EA Seemann, Leipzig 1906 ( archive.org ).
The late works of Bartolommeo Suardi, called Brammantino (= yearbook of the art-historical collections of the highest imperial family . Volume 26 ). 1907, p. 293-372 ( digizeitschriften.de ).
Leonardo and his circle . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1929, OCLC 459138278 .
Art and history. Attempt to establish the style units in European artistic activity . Phaidon Verlag, Cologne 1960.

literature

Ulrike Wendland: Suida, William . In: 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 . KG Saur, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-096573-5 , p. 672-677 ( books.google.de ).

Web links

Literature by and about Suida, Wilhelm 1877–1959 in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Suida, William in the Dictionay of Art Historians
William Suida. In: Viennese art history spotted. Institute for Art History, University of Vienna; accessed on August 5, 2019
Personnel file at the Vienna University Archives

Individual evidence

↑ According to the obituary, he died "on Sunday June 17th [1894], ½1 o'clock at night, at the age of 46."
^ Judith H. Dobrzynski: Art Museum In Texas Gets Trove of 700 Works . In: The New York Times . 1998 ( nytimes.com ).
^ Michael Kimmelman: Bertina Manning, 70, Art Scholar And a Collector of Italian Works . In: The New York Times . October 10, 1992 ( nytimes.com ).
↑ Suida Manning, Bertina. In: Archives Directory for the History of Collecting. research.frick.org, accessed August 5, 2019 .
^ Jonathan Bober: The Suida-Manning Collection in the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art of the University of Texas at Austin. In: The Burlington Magazine 141, 1999, pp. 445-452.

personal data
SURNAME	Suida, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Suida, William; Suida, William E .; Suida, Wilhelm Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian-American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH	April 25, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neunkirchen (Lower Austria)
DATE OF DEATH	October 29, 1959
Place of death	New York City

[1] According to the obituary, he died "on Sunday June 17th [1894], ½1 o'clock at night, at the age of 46."

[2] Judith H. Dobrzynski: Art Museum In Texas Gets Trove of 700 Works . In: The New York Times . 1998 ( nytimes.com ).

[3] Michael Kimmelman: Bertina Manning, 70, Art Scholar And a Collector of Italian Works . In: The New York Times . October 10, 1992 ( nytimes.com ).

[4] Suida Manning, Bertina. In: Archives Directory for the History of Collecting. research.frick.org, accessed August 5, 2019 .

[5] Jonathan Bober: The Suida-Manning Collection in the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art of the University of Texas at Austin. In: The Burlington Magazine 141, 1999, pp. 445-452.