Karl Woermann

Karl Woermann ( born July 4, 1844 in Hamburg, † February 4, 1933 in Dresden ) was a German art historian and gallery director. Woermann was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig.

Life

Karl Woermann was baptized as the eldest son of the Hamburg merchant and shipowner Carl Woermann originally the name of the Father ( " Carl" ) and should take over his father's company. However, since it is - in contrast to his brother Adolph Woermann - not for sale trade, but for interested in art, called the father of him to change the spelling of his first name to " Charles ". The family business was taken over by Adolph, but Carl also promoted Karl still in its interests.

According to a study trip to India, Japan and Egypt, Karl Woermann undertook at the age of 16, he studied law in Heidelberg, Göttingen and Kiel ( member of the Corps Saxonia Kiel), received a doctorate in law. (Göttingen) and settled in 1868 as a lawyer in Hamburg down. A journey through France, Great Britain and North America aroused his interest in the history of art. He gave up his law practice and studied in Heidelberg art history, became in 1871 a second doctorate ( PhD on the scenic natural sense of the Greeks and Romans ) and his Habilitation in Heidelberg as a lecturer in art history and archeology. In the same year Woermann also adopted as one of the leading German art historian of his time in Dresden on Congress to settle the dispute Dresdner Holbein part. 1871, and in 1872 toured Woermann repeatedly Italy, Greece and Asia Minor. In 1873 he received a professorship at the prestigious Düsseldorf Academy of Art. 1878/1879 brought him renewed study trips through many European countries, which he described in a travel diary. Together with Alfred Woltmann was Woermann 1878 The history of painting out; Woermann completed the work by Woltmann's death and wrote for the article about the painting in the ancient world.

In 1882, Woermann gallery director of the world-famous Saxon Gemäldegalerie in Dresden was ( the separation of the Dresden Art Gallery in Old Masters and New Masters was in 1931 completed ) and ( until 1896 ) of the Dresden Print Room. In the following years Woermann made ​​his versatile services to the Dresden collections, including through purchases of paintings by Carl Spitzweg and Claude Monet or around the turn of the century through numerous acquisitions for the Print Room.

Woermann published in this period, several art history books, including in 1887 the first scientific catalog of the paintings gallery. His works on the general history of art were the first who treated also works of primitive peoples. - Woermann also wrote several poems rows in his life.

In 1910, the " doyen of German art history " withdrew from all his offices, but devoted himself until his death in 1933 continued private art history. Woermann was buried in the Dresden Urnenhain in Tolkewitzer Tännicht.

Publications

The publications Woermann include:

  • Karl Woermann (1871 ). Above the scenic natural sense of the Greeks and Romans. Preliminary studies to an archeology of landscape painting. Ackermann: Munich.
  • Karl Woermann (1876 ). The ancient Odysseelandschaften from Equilinischen Hill in Rome. Munich.
  • Karl Woermann (1876 ). The landscape in the art of ancient peoples. A history of precursors and beginnings of landscape painting. Munich.
  • Alfred Woltmann, Karl Woermann & ( ed.) ( 1878ff. ) The history of painting. 3 volumes, Leipzig.
  • Karl Woermann (1880 ). Art and nature sketches from Northern and Southern Europe.
  • Karl Woermann (1880 ). History of the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Demolition of their last decade and memorandum at the opening of the new building. Dusseldorf. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
  • Karl Woermann (1887 ). Catalogue of the Royal Picture Gallery. Directorate-General of the Royal Collections of Art and Science: Dresden. ( Several other issues in later years )
  • Karl Woermann (1894 ). What we have learned from history of art. Dresden, 3rd edition.
  • Karl Woermann ( 1896-1898 ). Old Master Drawings in the Royal Print Room, Dresden. Munich.
  • Karl Woermann ( 1900-1922 ). History of art of all times and peoples. 6 volumes, Vienna, Leipzig: Bibliographical Institute.
  • Karl Woermann ( 1924). Life Memoirs of an octogenarian. 2 volumes, Leipzig.

They also

  • Ernst Woermann
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