Carl Georg Heise

Carl Georg Heise ( born June 28, 1890 in Hamburg, † August 11, 1979 ) was a German art historian. From 1945 to 1955 he headed the Hamburger Kunsthalle.

Career

Heise grew up in an art-loving Hamburg merchant family. Around 1906 Aby Warburg became his mentor, who recommended a study of art history at William Vöge in Freiburg him. He then went to Adolph Goldschmidt to Halle and against Warburg's advice to Henry Wölfflin to Munich. In 1910 he undertook with Wilhelm Waetzoldt Warburg and a trip to Italy, which eventually led him to Venice to Ferrara, where Warburg did research on the frescoes in the Palazzo Schifanoia, 1912 Warburg traveled with him to the art historian Congress to Rome. In 1914 he was dismissed as a volunteer, studied in Berlin and Kiel. He was born on October 28, 1916 with a thesis on the North German painting of the Middle Ages, which he dedicated to Warburg, PhD at Graf Vitzthum. 1916 Heise staff at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, where he created a Catalogue of the older painting in the museum on behalf of Gustav Pauli. 1919 to 1921 he was with Giovanni Mardersteig and initially also Pinthus the journal Genius. Magazine for expectant and old art out.

Work

On May 1, 1920, he began his career as a museum director of St. Anne Convent in Lübeck in the footsteps of Karl Schaefer. He was a patron of the Lübeck painter Erich Dummer, among other things, organized the exhibition in the fall of 1929 and wrote his obituary in the Lübeckische leaves. In 1926, the jubilation Heise ball as a lottery to private financing of the 700 -year celebration of the city of Lübeck, Lübeck was the outside with an exhibition Lübeckische art also to a large representation of the meaning of Lübeck for the arts in Northern Europe. Carl Georg Heise, launched in 1929, one of the first exhibitions for photographers. Shown are images of Albert Renger- Patzsch, Emil Otto Hoppé, Hugo Erfurth and Wilhelm Castelli, a young photographer Lübeck. In 1931 he held an exhibition in the Overbeck society on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Katharineum together with the drawing teacher Hans Peters with works of students.

He was released as part of the DC circuit on September 29, 1933 his office which he still knew until 1 January 1934 his vehement advocacy of modern German art. His office was led to hold office until his successor Hans Schröder in June 1934 by his deputy, Theodor Riewerts interim basis. 1928 to 1933 he lived in Lübeck, the publican house castle gate, which had previously been flat honor of the writer Ida Boy-Ed. Heise acquired during his time in Lübeck works by Expressionists such as Ernst Barlach ( for the St. Catherine's Church ), Franz Marc and especially Edvard Munch as well as photographs of the New Objectivity of Albert Renger- Patzsch. On his initiative, the well-known today under the name Behnhaus building was purchased in 1921 for the city and expanded as a museum. He is also the pioneer of the Museum Church of St. Catherine, which he saw as visionary sculpture hall of Lübeck Art in the Baltic region, what the plaster cast of the St. - Jürgen- group of Bernt Notke recalls today. Many of his acquisitions were later shown at the exhibition "Degenerate Art".

After the war he headed from 1945 to 1955 the Hamburger Kunsthalle, and was a professor at the University of Hamburg. The art historical collection Heise with 9000 titles is today housed in the State and University Library Bremen. As an important sponsor of the German classical modernism.

Writings

  • As editor, entertainment and Frederick the Great. Diaries of Henri de Catt 1758-1760. Translated by Clara Hertz. Kiepenheuer, Weimar, 1916.
  • North German painting. Studies on their development history in the 15th century from Cologne to Hamburg. Wolff, Leipzig 1918.
  • Giovanni Mardersteig (ed.): Genius. Images and articles on old and new art. Wolff, Munich 1920.
  • Lübeck plastic. Cohen, Bonn 1926.
  • Lübeck art care from 1920 to 1933. Issued on behalf of the Vorsteherschaft of the Museum of Art and Cultural History. Lübeck 1934.
  • Mythical world of the Middle Ages. Fancy and decorative pieces Lübeckischer workmen from three centuries. 120 photos by W. Castelli. Rembrandt, Berlin 1936.
  • German sculptor by Dürer. Günther and Co., Berlin around 1940.
  • Personal memories of Aby Warburg. New York 1947.
  • The Lübeck Passion altar by Hans Memling. Ellermann, Hamburg 1950.
  • Guide to the Hamburger Kunsthalle. Christians, Hamburg 1955.
  • (Ed.). Rembrandt Rijn, The Night Watch 1642 Reclam, Stuttgart, 1957.
  • Lovis Corinth. Portraits of his wife. Reclam, Stuttgart, 1958.
  • The present moment. Speeches and essays from four decades. Gebr man, Berlin 1960.
  • The museum in present and future. Keynote address for the centennial celebration of the Wallraff -Richartz Museum. Cologne 1961.
  • Big signatories of the XIX. Century. Gebr man, Berlin 1959. Reprint :: Books Gutenberg, Frankfurt am Main 1960.
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