Wilhelm Vöge

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Wilhelm Vöge (born February 16, 1868 in Bremen , † December 30, 1952 in Ballenstedt in the Harz Mountains ) was a German art historian .

life and work

Vöge spent the first five years of his life in Bremen, then four years in Detmold . After the family moved to Hanover , he attended Lyceum II there , where he graduated from high school in 1886. In the words of his later pupil Erwin Panofsky, "he retained the careful, well-dressed pronunciation that is characteristic of the province of Hanover and the Hanseatic cities for life." He began studying art history in Leipzig and Bonn in 1886 and continued at the Kaiser Wilhelm University (now the University of Strasbourg ), where he received his doctorate from Hubert Janitschek in 1891 on Ottonian book painting - a German school of painting at the turn of the first millennium . In 1895 he completed his habilitation on Raffael and Donatello . From 1897 to 1910 Vöge was curator in the sculpture department of the Berlin museums under Wilhelm von Bode .

In 1909 he was appointed to the newly established chair for art history at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . He gave up his professorship for health reasons as early as 1917 and retired to Ballenstedt in the Harz Mountains. There were still some scientific works on late medieval sculptures.

In 1928 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

In 1952 Vöge passed away. His grave is in the cemetery of the Pforta State School in Schulpforte (Naumburg).

Vöge bequeathed his written estate to the State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony-Anhalt in Halle, but the library, the works of art and the photographs to his old Freiburg institute. Today the entire estate is in the Wilhelm Vöge archive of the Art History Institute of the University of Freiburg. Among Vöge's students was Erwin Panofsky, who received his doctorate on Dürer's art theory in 1914 . Walter Friedlaender was one of his colleagues in Freiburg .

Fonts (selection)

  • A German painting school at the turn of the first millennium: Critical studies on the history of painting in Germany in the 10th and 11th centuries , Lintz, Trier 1891
  • The beginnings of the monumental style in the Middle Ages (reprint of the Strasbourg 1894 edition), with the essay “Wilhelm Vöge” by Erwin Panofsky, Mäander Verlag, Munich 1988. ISBN 3-88219-311-5
  • Raffael and Donatello - a contribution to the history of the development of Italian art , Heitz, Strasbourg, 1896
  • Jörg Syrlin the Elder and his sculptures, Vol. II: Circle of materials and design , Berlin 1950
  • Sculptor of the Middle Ages. Collected Studies . With a preface by Erwin Panofsky. Berlin: Mann 1958 (2nd edition 1995 (Edition Logos) ISBN 3-7861-1800-0 )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Erwin Panofsky and Ernest C. Hassold: Wilhelm Vöge. A Biographical Memoir. In: Art Journal. Vol. 28, No. 1, (1968), pp. 27-37, here p. 28 and Erwin Panofsky: Wilhelm Vöge. February 16, 1868 - December 30, 1952. In: Wilhelm Vöge: Sculptors of the Middle Ages. Collected Studies. With a foreword by Erwin Panofsky. Berlin: Mann 1995, pp. IX-XXXII
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 247.
  3. ^ Website Wilhelm Vöge Archive in Freiburg
personal data
SURNAME Vöge, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1952
Place of death Ballenstedt in the Harz Mountains