Herbert von Einem

Herbert von Einem (February 16, 1905 in Sarrebourg, Lorraine, – August 5, 1983 in Göttingen) was a German art historian.

Life and work

Von Einem studied art history at the University of Göttingen, the Humboldt-Universität Berlin and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 1928, he completed his PhD, entitled Die Plastik der Lüneburger Goldenen Tafel under Georg Vitzthum von Eckstädt, director of the art history seminar in Göttingen. In 1935 he wrote his Habilitationsschrift at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg on Carl Ludwig Fernow. In 1937 he was assistant of Vitzthum in Göttingen, and in 1938 lecturer in art history. During the Nazi era, he promoted a nationalist-defined art history.[1] From 1943 to 1945 he taught art history at the University of Greifswald.

In 1947, Von Einem was appointed professor of art history at the University of Bonn and launched there, together with Heinrich Lützeler, the Institute of the History of Art, which he increased in the following years.[2] Until 1971, with Lützeler, Von Einem was also editor of the Bonner Beiträge zur Kunstwissenschaft. He retired in 1970. His book on Michelangelo was translated into five languages.

gollark: Interestingly, some of my dragons have many named offspring, others very few.
gollark: The trick to avoiding the pain is to never hunt again!
gollark: I feel a strange sense of pride. I managed to make someone with a "normal" naming scheme (i.e. vaguely pronounceable syllables with no visible meaning) call a dragon `Peppered Sausage II` just by breeding `Avocado Sausages` to the AP ages ago.
gollark: It's not as if all names are actually what we'd call humans.
gollark: It did break lots, sure, but unless TJ09 manages to have gone against all sanity advice regarding database use, `-` at the start should not be a problem.

References
  1. Herbert von Einem, "Aufgaben der Kunstgeschichte in der Zukunft", Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Volume 5 (1936), 1–6
  2. Universität Bonn: Kunsthistorisches Institut: Institutsgeschichte

Select publications
  • Caspar David Friedrich. Berlin: Rembrandt-Verlag, 1938.
  • Carl Ludwig Fernow, Römische Briefe an Johann Pohrt 1793–1798. Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1944.
  • Die Bildnisse der deutschen Künstler in Rom, 1800–1830. Berlin: Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft, 1952.
  • Beiträge zu Goethes Kunstauffassung. Hamburg: von Schröder, 1956.
  • Michelangelo: Bildhauer, Maler, Baumeister. Berlin: Gebrüder Mann, 1959.
  • Stil und Überlieferung: Aufsätze zur Kunstgeschichte des Abendlandes. Dusseldorf: L. Schwann, 1971.
  • Das Programm der Stanza della Segnatura im Vatikan. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1971.
  • Giorgione: der Maler als Dichter. Mainz and Wiesbaden: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, 1972.
  • Die Medicimadonna Michelangelos. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1973.
  • "Die Folgen des Krieges": ein Alterswerk von Peter Paul Rubens. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1975.
  • Deutsche Malerei des Klassizismus und der Romantik, 1760–1840. Munich: Beck, 1978.

Further reading
  • Gert von der Osten and Georg Kauffmann, eds., Festschrift für Herbert von Einem zum 16. Februar 1965, Berlin 1965
  • Florens Deuchler et al., Schülerfestgabe für Herbert von Einem zum 16. Februar 1965 (1965)
  • Willi Hirdt and Tilmann Buddensieg, eds., In memoriam Herbert von Einem: Reden (1983)
  • Metzler-Kunsthistoriker-Lexikon, Stuttgart and Weimar 1999, pp. 70–73.
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