Gustav Wittmer
Gustav Karl Wittmer[1] (31 March 1834 – 9 October 1917) was a German art historian.
Biography
Gustav Wittmer was born as the son of the state domain tenant at Haydau Monastery. Wittmer studied agriculture after attending high school in Kassel, then art history in Jena, Leipzig, Prague, Berlin, Kiel and Munich. During his studies he became a member of the fraternity Teutonia Jena in 1854. He was awarded a doctorate in Munich. Wittmer also made studies in Rome, Florence and Venice. He was a member of the board and secretary of the Munich Historical Society.
In 1872 he returned to Kassel, where he became editor of the Hessische Morgenzeitung, the Hessisches Wochenblatt and the journal Die Erziehung der Gegenwart. Beiträge zur Lösung ihrer Aufgaben. He was also a contributor to the Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, the Bayreuther Blätter, and the Kunstchronik.
After 1886, he worked mainly as a independent scholar.
Gustav Wittmer died in Kassel.
Works
- Bericht über die internationale Kunstausstellung in München 1863. Ein Beitrag zur neueren Geschichte der Malerei (1864; dissertation)
- Die naive Poesie in unserer Zeit (1868)
- Friedrich Fröbel und die Erziehung zur Kunst (1883)
- Die Festspiele von Bayreuth, ihre religiöse, künstlerische und nationale Bedeutung (1889)
- Wege und Ziele deutscher Kulturarbeit (1891)
Notes
- ↑ Wittmer also wrote under the pseudonym of Karl Heidau.
References
- Dvorak, Helge (2018). Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft. II: Künstler. Heidelberg: Winter, pp. 729–30.
