Frederick Antal

Frederick Antal, also: Frigyes Antal, Frederick Antal ( born December 21, 1888 in Budapest, † April 4, 1954 in London) was a Hungarian- British art historian.

Life

After a degree in law Antal studied art history at the universities of Budapest, Freiburg iB, Paris, and Berlin with Heinrich Wölfflin and Franz Wickhoff in Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1914 with Max Dvořák about classicism, romanticism and realism in French painting been. 1914/15 he found work as a curator at the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts. He was a participant of the Budapest " Sunday Circle", which was led by György Lukács Béla Balázs from the house. At the " Free School of the Humanities" he held in March 1917 a lecture on " Cezanne and the painting by Cézanne ," in February 1918, by him the " emergence of the composition and content of modern painting " announced. In the Hungarian Soviet Republic Antal was appointed Chairman of the Executive Board of the Art Museum and organized by Otto Benesch an exhibition. In the summer of 1919, the Soviet Republic was put down and Antal fled to Vienna. By 1923, he remained with his wife for art studies in Italy, especially Florence, on. Between 1923 and 1933 he lived in Berlin and was with Bruno Fürst editor of "Critical reports on the art historical literature." In 1932 he made ​​a study trip to the Soviet Union.

After handing over power to the Nazis, he fled to England in 1933. There he wrote his main work on the Florentine painting, which was rejected in traditional art history as a Marxist, taught at the Courtauld Institute and became friends with Anthony Blunt. His investigations on the art prior to the French Revolution Henry Fuseli and William Hogarth were published posthumously.

Antal was married to Theodora by Lobell, had with whom he had a son, George (* 1926), and later in England with Evelyn Forster Edwards.

Works (selection)

  • Thoughts on the evolution of the Trecento and Quattrocento painting in Siena and Florence
  • Raphael between Classicism and Mannerism: a socio-historical introduction to the central Italian painting of the 16th and 17th centuries, Giessen: Anabas -Verl., 1980 ISBN 3-87038-068-3
  • Hogarth and his place in European art, Dresden: Verl of Art, 1991
  • Füssli studies, Dresden: Verlag art, VEB, 1973
  • The Florentine painting and its social background, Berlin: Henschel, 1958 ( Florentine painting and its social background, the bourgeois republic before Cosimo de ' Medici 's advent to power: XIV and XV centuries early, London, K. Paul )
  • Critical reports on the art historical literature (1927-1937), Hildesheim, New York, G. Olms, 1972.
  • Post in: Rembrandt: Master paintings, Stuttgart; Leipzig: German publishing house, 1909.
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