Wolfgang Stechow
Wolfgang Stechow ( born June 5, 1896 in Kiel, † October 12, 1974 in Princeton, New Jersey ) was a German - American art historian.
Life and work
As the son of the Prussian prosecutor Waldemar Stechow and his wife, the concert singer Bertha German man, he attended high school in Göttingen until 1913 and then signed up as a volunteer in 1914.
In Russia, he got in 1915 for two years in captivity in a Siberian camp. At the Georg -August- University Göttingen, he wrote his dissertation on the Apocalypse by Durer. In the years 1921-1922 he served as an assistant at the Kaiser -Friedrich- Museum under Wilhelm von Bode.
In The Hague, he was from 1922 to 1924 assistant to Cornelis Hofstede de Groot. He then moved in 1923 to the Art History Department at the University of Göttingen. There he was in 1926 appointed as Lecturer after his habilitation thesis on Dutch art, from 1931 to associate professor. During these years he was from 1927 to 1928 as a member of the German Institute for Art History in Florence. In Rome he was a guest lecturer in 1931 at the Bibliotheca Hertziana.
On December 16, 1932, he married Ursula Hoff ( born 1911 ). The marriage produced three children (Hans Axel, Barbara and Nicola).
After the transfer of power to the Nazis he had to give up in 1936 as a civil evangelical faith with Jewish ancestors its place in Göttingen. Thus, he emigrated to the United States, where he received an assistantship at the University of Wisconsin in Madison (Wisconsin ) through the mediation of Oskar Hagen. In 1940 he went to Oberlin College, where he remained until his retirement in 1963. The citizenship of the United States, he had assumed in 1942.
Positions after his retirement:
During the summer semester, he also taught at New York University and Middlebury College. He has written over 200 published works and some monographs.
Honours and Appointments
Writings (selection )
- Apollo and Daphne, in: Studies of the Warburg Library Volume 23, Leipzig 1932
- Rembrandt's representations of the Emmaus Supper, in: Journal of Art History, 3 vol, H. 6 (1934 ), pp. 329-341 ( beginning of the article )
- Salomon van Ruysdael: an introduction to his art: with a critical catalog of paintings, Berlin 1938
- Masters of Art: Bruegel, in: ( Masters of Art Series )
- Pieter Bruegel, the Elder (about 1525-1569 )
- Dutch Landscape Painting of the seventeeth Century, London 1966
- European and American Paintings and Sculpture in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
- Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolors in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
- European Paintings Before 1500, Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, 1974 ISBN 0-910386-19-6
- Northern Renaissance art, 1400-1600 - Sources and documents, New Jersey in 1966
- Dürer in America: His Graphic Work, New York 1971