- Adolph Goldschmidt
Adolph Goldschmidt (
January 15 ,1863 - 1944) was a Germanart critic .He was born at Hamburg.
After a short business career he devoted himself (1885) to the study of the history of art at the universities of
Jena ,Kiel , andLeipzig . He took his degree in 1889 with the dissertation "Lübecker Malerei und Plastik bis 1530," the first detailed analysis of themedieval art of northeast Germany.After traveling through Germany, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, England, France, and Italy, on the presentation of his work "Der Albanipsalter in Hildesheim und Seine Beziehung zur Symbolischen Kirchenskulptur des 12. Jahrhunderts" (1893), he became "
Privatdozent " at theUniversity of Berlin .His "Studien zur Geschichte der Sächsischen Skulptur in der Uebergangszeit vom Romanischen zum Gotischen Stil" (Berlin, 1902) traces the gradual development of German
sculpture with reference to the period of its florescence in the thirteenth century.His "Die Kirchenthür des Heil. Ambrosius in Mailand" (1902) for the first time showed the door of the
Church of St. Ambrogio inMilan to be a monument ofearly Christian art .He also contributed a number of important articles on North-German painting, Saxon sculpture, and early medieval miniature manuscripts to the "Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft," "Zeitschrift für Christliche Kunst," and "Jahrbuch der Kgl. Preussischen Kunstsammlungen."
Being of Jewish origin, he had to flee
Nazi Germany and died inBasel, Switzerland in 1944.References
* [http://www.goldschmidt-zentrum.de Adolph-Goldschmidt-Zentrum zur Erforschung der romanischen Skulptur]
*JewishEncyclopedia
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