Berthold Riehl

Berthold Moritz Riehl (10 June 1858 – 5 April 1911) was a German art historian.

Biography

Berthold Riehl was born in Munich, the son of the cultural historian, sociologist and novelist Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl, privy councilor and professor in Munich, and his first wife, the singer Bertha, née von Knoll (1824–1894). He graduated from the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich in 1878. He studied art history at the universities of Vienna and Munich, received his doctorate in 1883 with the dissertation St. Michael und St. Georg in der bildenden Kunst, and habilitated in 1884. From 1887 Riehl lectured on art history and aesthetics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich; from 1890 he taught as associate professor, and from 1898 as full professor, of art history at the Ludwig Maximilian University. From 1898 he was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

In 1884 he married Marie Anna Margaretha Petri from Kassel (born 1861), daughter of the lawyer Wilhelm Petri. The two sons of this marriage, Wilhelm and Berthold, died in infancy.

As early as 1888, Aby Warburg heard lectures from Riehl, and Paul Frankl was also one of his students.

After scholars such as Ludwig von Schorn, Andreas Florian Meilinger and Moritz Carrière had already lectured in art history at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Riehl became the first full professor of art history at this university in 1890 and founded the Kunsthistorisches Institut under the name Kunsthistorisches Seminar und Kupferstichsammlung. Under his direction, the institute focused on studies of regional Bavarian art history; under his successors Heinrich Wölfflin, Wilhelm Pinder, and Hans Jantzen, the field of work was expanded to include the entire German-speaking region.

Works

• Sanct Michael und Sanct Georg in der bildenden Kunst (1883)
• Geschichte des Sittenbildes in der deutschen Kunst bis zum Tode Pieter Breughel des Aelteren (1884)
• Zur bayrischen Kunstgeschichte / 1: Die ältesten Denkmale der bayrischen Malerei (1885)
• Denkmale frühmittelalterlicher Baukunst in Bayern, bayerisch Schwaben, Franken und der Pfalz (1888)
• Deutsche und italienische Kunstcharaktere (1893)
• Die bayerische Kleinplastik der frühromanischen Periode (1894)
• Studien zur Geschichte der bayerischen Malerei des 15. Jahrhunderts (1895)
• Die Kunst an der Brennerstrasse (1898)
• Von Dürer zu Rubens: eine geschichtliche Studie über die deutsche und niederländische Malerei des 16. Jahrhunderts (1900)
• Geschichte der Stein- und Holzplastik in Ober-Bayern: vom 12. bis zur Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts (1902)
• Augsburg (1903)
• Die Münchener Plastik in der Wende vom Mittelalter zur Renaissance (1904)
• Internationale und nationale Züge in der Entwicklung der deutschen Kunst (1906)
• Studien über Miniaturen niederländischer Gebetbücher des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts im Bayerischen National-Museum und in der Hof- und Staatsbibliothek zu München (1907)
• Bayerns Donautal: tausend Jahre deutscher Kunst (1912)

References

• Antje Schneider, "Berthold Riehl (1858–1911)." In: Das Institut für Kunstgeschichte in München 1909-2009. München: Inst. für Kunstgeschichte (2010), pp. 18–25.
• Rudolf Vierhaus, Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie. 8. München: Poethen – Schlüter (2007), p. 401.

External links

• Riehl, Berthold at Dictionary of Art Historians