Wolfgang Lotz (art historian)

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Wolfgang Lotz (born April 19, 1912 in Heilbronn ; † October 24, 1981 in Rome ) was a German art historian .

Life

Wolfgang Lotz began studying law in Freiburg im Breisgau , moved to Munich to study art history and received his doctorate in 1937 under Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich in Hamburg with a dissertation on architecture by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola . He then worked at the Art History Institute in Florence , first as a scholarship holder, then as an assistant. It was here in 1939 that he met the photographer and art historian Hilde Lotz-Bauer (1907–1999), whom he married in 1941. In 1942 Lotz was called up for military service in World War II. In 1945 he became an American prisoner of war . The Allies sent it to the central point for the return of looted art, the Central Art Collecting Point in Munich. The Central Institute for Art History in Munich then grew out of this , and Lotz was acting as director until his doctoral supervisor Heydenreich took over the overall management. In 1952, Lotz accepted a professorship for art history at Vassar College as the successor to Richard Krautheimer , who had moved to the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University . Lotz also moved to the Institute of Fine Arts in New York in 1959. In 1962 he returned to Rome to the Bibliotheca Hertziana , which he headed as director and "scientific member of the Max Planck Society" until his retirement in 1980. During that time he was also elected President of the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio in Vicenza . After retreating into private life, which he continued to devote to science, he suffered a fatal heart attack on the Spanish Steps in Rome in 1981 . He is buried on the Cimitero acattolico in Rome .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Vignola studies. Contributions to a Vignola monograph. Triltsch, Würzburg-Aumühle 1939 (dissertation).
  • The oval church rooms of the Cinquecento. In: Römisches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 7, 1955, pp. 7–99.
  • The Spanish Steps. Architecture as a means of diplomacy . In: Römisches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 12, 1969, pp. 39–94.
  • The Architecture in Italy 1400-1600. Penguin Books, Baltimore, MD 1974.
  • Studies in Italian Renaissance Architecture. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 1977 (collected articles, including the complete bibliography up to 1974).

literature

  • Institute of Fine Arts, New York University: Lectures in memory of Wolfgang Lotz. New York 1983.
  • James S. Ackerman : In memoriam Wolfgang Lotz. In: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 41, 1982, pp. 5-6.
  • Christoph Luitpold Frommel : Wolfgang Lotz April 19, 1912 - October 24, 1981. In: Reports and communications from the Max Planck Society 31, 2, 1982, pp. 26–28.
  • Christof Thoenes:  Lotz, Wolfgang. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 253 ( digitized version ).
  • Christof Thoenes: Growth. The Bibliotheca Hertziana under Wolfgang Lotz (1963–1980) . In: Sybille Ebert-Schifferer (Ed.): 100 Years of the Bibliotheca Hertziana . Volume 1: The history of the institute 1913–2013 . Hirmer, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7774-9051-9 , pp. 154-163,

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personal data
SURNAME Lotz, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1981
Place of death Rome