Werner Weisbach

Werner Weisbach (1 September 1873, in Berlin 9 April 1953, in Basel) was a German-Swiss art historian.

Werner Weisbach
Born(1873-09-01)September 1, 1873
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
DiedApril 9, 1953(1953-04-09) (aged 79)
Basel, Switzerland
OccupationArt historian
Alma materUniversity of Freiburg
Leipzig University
University of Munich

He studied art history, archaeology, history and philosophy at the universities of Freiburg, Berlin, Munich and Leipzig, receiving his promotion from the latter institution in 1896 (doctoral advisor, August Schmarsow). Following a study trip through Europe, he served as a volunteer at the Museum of Berlin under the directorship of Wilhelm von Bode. From 1903 onward, he worked as a lecturer at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin, where from 1921 to 1933 he taught classes as an associate professor of art history. During the era of National Socialism he emigrated to Basel, Switzerland as a private scholar (1935).[1][2]

Selected works

  • Impressionismus; ein problem der malerei in der antike und neuzeit (2 volumes, 1910–11) Impressionism; a problem of painting in antiquity and modern times.
  • Kriegsziele und deutscher idealismus, 1915 War aims and German idealism.
  • Der Barock als Kunst der Gegenreformation, 1921 Baroque as an art of counterreformation.
  • Die italienische Stadt der Renaissance, 1922 The Italian city of the Renaissance.
  • Kunst des Barock in Italien, Frankreich, Deutschland und Spanien, 1924 Baroque art in Italy, France, Germany and Spain.
  • Rembrandt, 1926 On Rembrandt.
  • In English: Spanish baroque art; three lectures delivered at the University of London, 1941.
  • Manierismus in mittelalterlicher Kunst, 1942 Mannerism in medieval art.
  • Religiöse Reform und mittelalterliche Kunst, 1945 Religious reform and medieval art.
  • Vincent van Gogh; Kunst und Schicksal, 1949 Vincent van Gogh, art and fate.
  • Die Basler Buchillustration des XV. Jahrhunderts, 1957 The Basler Buchillustration of the 15th century.[3]

References

  1. Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exile by Ulrike Wendland
  2. Biografie, Werner Weisbach Wissenschaftliche Sammlungen an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  3. HathiTrust Digital Library (published works)
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