Wolfgang Born (art historian)

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Wolfgang Born (born October 2, 1893 in Breslau ; died June 15, 1949 in New York City ) was a German-American art historian.

Life

Wolfgang Born was a son of the physician Gustav Born and Bertha Lipstein. Born had two siblings from his father's first marriage, the physicist Max Born (1882–1970) and Käthe (born 1883). Born was a soldier in the First World War in 1914 in a medical corps. He studied fine arts in Munich and Paris from 1919 to 1923 and settled in Vienna in 1923 . Between 1928 and 1931 he studied art history in Munich and Vienna and received his doctorate with Josef Strzygowski and Oswald Menghin with the dissertation “The animal weave in northern Russian illumination”.

Thomas Mann (1928)

In 1921 he created the illustrations for an edition of Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice and furnished editions of Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone and Albert Wesselski's Dante novels . He worked as a lecturer at the Vienna Adult Education Center , organized exhibitions and wrote articles for the newspaper Neues Wiener Journal and magazines such as Die graphischen Künste , Reclams Universum , German Art and Decoration , Der Kunstwanderer , Interior Decoration , Belvedere , Die Kunst für alle and the work magazine CIBA -Rundschau in Switzerland. After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he lost the orders for the magazines from the German Reich, as they parted with their Jewish authors for racist reasons.

Born emigrated to the USA in 1937 and found a position as a teacher of art and art history at Maryville College in St. Louis . In 1944/45 he was lecturer in art history at Queens College New York, between 1945 and 1948 professor of art history at Louisiana State University , in 1948 at Hunter College and in 1949 at City College New York .

  • The death in venice

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Fonts (selection)

  • Death in Venice: nine color lithographs for Thomas Mann's novella . Munich: DuR Bischoff, 1921
  • The animal mesh in northern Russian illumination . Prague: Kondakov Institute, 1933 (partial reprint)
  • Still life painting in America . New York, 1947
  • American landscape painting. An interpretation . New Haven, 1948
  • Dirk Heißerer (Ed.): Wolfgang Born. "Where you are is Germany!": Correspondence with Thomas Mann. Texts. Photos. Bibliography . Würzburg: Königshausen u. Neumann, 2019 ISBN 978-3-8260-6185-1 (announced)

literature

  • Born, Wolfgang , 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, pp. 60-64
  • Ilse Krumpöck: Born, Wolfgang . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 13, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22753-1 , p. 77.
  • Born, Max , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 134f. (also to Wolfgang Born)
  • Frank Baron: Wolfgang Born and Thomas Mann , with black and white reproductions of the lithographs by Wolfgang Born, in: Frank Baron, Gert Sautermeister (Ed.): Thomas Mann: "The death in Venice": Reality, poetry, myth . Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild, 2003 ISBN 3-7950-0793-3 , pp. 138–157
  • Traute Kohler: Wolfgang Born's lithographs , in: Frank Baron, Gert Sautermeister (Ed.): Thomas Mann: "The death in Venice": Reality, poetry, myth . Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild, 2003 ISBN 3-7950-0793-3 , pp. 159-171

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personal data
SURNAME Born, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1949
Place of death New York City