Adolph Goldschmidt

Adolph Goldschmidt ( born January 15, 1863 in Hamburg, † January 5, 1944 in Basel ) was a German art historian.

Life

Goldschmidt began relatively late in 1885 with his study of art history at the universities of Jena, Kiel and Leipzig. In 1889, he was with his dissertation Lübeck painting and sculpture to 1530, a first detailed inventory of late Gothic art in the northeast of Germany, PhD. He traveled to countries in North, South and Western Europe and, after presenting his work The Albanipsalter in Hildesheim and its relationship to the symbolic church sculpture of the 12th century (1893 ) a lecturer at the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin. The focus of his art historical research was in the field of medieval art, especially in the field of Low German painting.

Goldschmidt in 1903 full professor of art history in Berlin in 1904 at the University of Halle and returned from there in 1912 returned to Berlin. From 1914 until his expulsion in 1938, he was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin.

1927 to 1930 he was one of the first German university teacher as a visiting professor at Harvard University. Honored on his 70th birthday in 1933 still with the Goethe Medal for Art and Science and with the eagle shield, Goldschmidt 1938, was forced to emigrate from Germany and moved to Basel.

His friends included Max Liebermann, Edvard Munch, Aby Warburg, Friedrich Meinecke. He was a critic of his colleagues from a common time in Berlin, Heinrich Wölfflin.