Wolfgang Schöne (art historian)
Wolfgang Schöne (born February 11, 1910 in Marburg ; † August 17, 1989 in Hamburg ) was a German art historian .
After studying in Munich , Freiburg im Breisgau , Göttingen and Berlin , he received his doctorate in 1938 at the Art History Institute in Frankfurt am Main . In Göttingen he was a student of Wolfgang Stechow . From 1936 he worked as a volunteer assistant at the National Gallery in Berlin and received a grant from the German Research Foundation . Schöne, who had been a member of the National Socialist SA since 1933 , also became a member of the NSDAP in 1937 . He completed his habilitation in Freiburg in 1943.
From 1945 he taught as a lecturer at the University of Hamburg , from 1947 he was appointed full professor there. From 1964 to 1966 he was vice-president of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences . In 1971 he was elected a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .
The light in the representations of the great masters was a central aspect in Schöne art-historical work. Here he coined the term transcendental luminous light . He did not understand this as the appearance of physical light (intrinsic light) of a light source as a means of representation, but as a representation of the transcendence of representation. The light from a light source thrown onto a white wall forms the reflected light (as illuminating light) or applied light , which then indirectly illuminates the representation. His decisive work on this connection appeared in 1954 in the book On Light in Painting .
Fonts
- Dieric Bouts and his school. Berlin 1938.
- (Ed.) The great masters of Dutch painting of the 15th century. Hubert van Eyck to Quentin Massys . Leipzig 1939.
- Gerhard Marcks . Twenty-four drawings. Krefeld 1949.
- About the light in painting. Berlin 1954 ( summary ).
- The honeysuckle arbor. Double portrait of the artist with Isabella Brant . Stuttgart 1956.
- The visual history of the Christian figures of God in Western art. In: Wolfgang Schöne, Johannes Kollwitz & Hans von Campenhausen : The image of God in the West. Berlin 1957.
- Raphael . Berlin and Darmstadt 1958.
- Rembrandt's man in the gold helmet . In: Yearbook of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1972. Göttingen 1973.
literature
- Walter Habel: Who is who? Berlin 1970.
- Alfred Hentzen : Wolfgang Schöne at the Berlin National Gallery . In: Wilhelm Schlink u. Martin Sperlich (Ed.): Forma et subtilitas. Festschrift for Wolfgang Schöne on his 75th birthday . Berlin 1986. pp. 269-289.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Schöne in the catalog of the German National Library
- Beauty coined the term transcendental luminous light
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jutta Held : Art History at the Universities during National Socialism. V & R unipress, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89971-118-1 , p. 207 ( online ).
- ↑ 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. 217.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beautiful, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th August 1989 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |