Yvonne Hackenbroch

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Yvonne Alix Hackenbroch (born April 27, 1912 in Frankfurt am Main ; died September 7, 2012 in London ) was a German-American art historian .

Life

Yvonne Hackenbroch was one of three daughters of the Frankfurt art dealer Zacharias Max Hackenbroch (1884–1937) and Clementine Schwarzschild (1888–1984). Her father was part of a consortium that in 1929 acquired the so-called Welfenschatz . Hackenbroch attended the Lyceum of the Viktoriaschule and graduated from the Oberlyceum of the Elisabethenschule in Frankfurt in 1931 . She then studied art history in Frankfurt and Munich , where she received her doctorate in 1936 under Hans Jantzen . As a Jew, she was denied any further academic career in Germany for racist reasons, and she emigrated to England in 1937.

In London she found employment in the British Museum as an assistant in the recovery of the archaeological find of Sutton Hoo . In 1944 she advised the film team for Heinrich V on the selection of jewels for the protagonists' costumes. Hackenbroch went to Toronto in 1946 and worked on the Lee Fareham collection of the University of Toronto .

From 1949 she cataloged the art collection of Irwin Untermyer in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York , which resulted in six voluminous volumes. She then stayed at the Metropolitan Museum as a curator for European sculpture and applied arts until her retirement in 1982. Hackenbroch received US citizenship. The Samuel H. Kress Foundation granted her a scholarship to work on her 1979 standard Renaissance Jewelery . In old age Hackenbroich moved back to London. In 1989 she received the Federal Cross of Merit .

Fonts (selection)

  • Italian enamel of the early Middle Ages . Holbein-Verlag, Basel, Leipzig 1938 (dissertation).
  • The Irwin Untermyer collection . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. / Thames and Hudson, London 1956–1963.
    • Volume 1: Meissen and other continental porcelain, faience and enamel in the Irwin Untermyer collection . 1956
    • Volume 2: Chelsea and other English porcelain, pottery and enamel in the Irwin Untermyer collection . 1957.
    • Volume 3: English furniture with some furniture of other countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection. 1958.
    • Volume 4: English and other needlework, tapestries and textiles in the Irwin Untermyer collection . 1960.
    • Volume 5: Bronzes, other metalwork and sculpture in the Irwin Untermyer collection . 1962.
    • Volume 6: English and other silver in the Irwin Untermyer collection . 1963.
  • Renaissance Jewelery . Sotheby Parke Bernet, London 1979.

literature

  • Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . KG Saur, Munich 1999, pp. 257-260.
  • Jörg Rasmussen (ed.): Studies on European arts and crafts. Festschrift Yvonne Hackenbroch . Klinkhardt and Biermann, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7814-0235-5 .

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Photo not in the public domain in the English Wikipedia, see en: File: Yvonne Hackenbroch.jpg .

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personal data
SURNAME Hackenbroch, Yvonne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hackenbroch, Yvonne Alix (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 2012
Place of death London