Adolf Katzenellenbogen

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Adolf Katzenellenbogen (born August 19, 1901 in Frankfurt am Main; died September 30, 1964 in Baltimore) was a German-American art historian.

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Early life and education

Adolf Edmund Max Katzenellenbogen was the son of bank director Albert Katzenellenbogen (1863–1942) and Cornelia Josephine Doctor (1870–1941). He had two sisters. His father was murdered in the Maly Trostinez extermination camp. [1] He attended the humanistic Goethe-Gymnasium in Frankfurt and studied law at the University of Giessen from 1920, where he received his doctorate in 1924. From 1926 to 1929 and from 1930 to 1933, he studied art history and philosophy in Leipzig and Hamburg and was awarded his doctorate in Hamburg in 1933 with a dissertation on Psychomachia under Erwin Panofsky. [2] He married the Swiss piano teacher Elisabeth Holzheu (1904–1983) in 1935 and the couple had two children.

Nazi era

When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, the Katzenellenbogen family was persecuted because Jewish. Katenellenbogen's father was deported and murdered. [1] Their property was Aryanized in 1940. [3] [4] Katzenellenbogen was forced out of his profession. During the antisemitic Nazi Kristallnacht pogroms in November 1938, he was imprisoned for three weeks in Dachau concentration camp. Released, he fled to Switzerland and from there to the USA via England. [5]

Erwin Panofsky and Walter S. Cook (Walter William Spencer Cook; 1888–1962) from New York University helped him find a job, and Katzenellenbogen became Visiting Lecturer at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie in 1940, Assistant Professor in 1943, Associate Professor in 1947 and Professor in 1953. He was granted US citizenship in 1946. In 1956 he became Visiting Professor at Smith College and from 1958 he held a professorship at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. [6] There he developed the art history course into one of the leading courses in the USA. Gary Schwartz, who later specialized in Rembrandt, was one of his students. The University of Freiburg im Breisgau invited Katzenellenbogen to become a visiting professor in 1963. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Albert Katzenellenbogen | Database of victims | Holocaust". www.holocaust.cz. Retrieved 2023-11-12.
  2. ↑ "Katzenellenbogen, Adolf | Dictionary of Art Historians". arthistorians.info. Retrieved 2023-11-12.
  3. ↑ Huber, Kilian; Lindenthal, Volker; Waldinger, Fabian (2021-09-01). "Discrimination, Managers, and Firm Performance: Evidence from "Aryanizations" in Nazi Germany" (PDF). Journal of Political Economy. 129 (9): 2455–2503. doi:10.1086/714994. ISSN   0022-3808.
  4. ↑ Ziegler, Dieter; Janetzko, Maren; Köhler, Ingo; Osterloh, Jörg (2021-02-22), "VII. Die „Entjudung" und „Arisierung" von Kapitalgesellschaften", VII. Die „Entjudung" und „Arisierung" von Kapitalgesellschaften (in German), De Gruyter Oldenbourg, pp. 213–252, doi:10.1515/9783110475609-008/html, ISBN   978-3-11-047560-9 , retrieved 2023-11-12
  5. ↑ "Ruppanerstr.13, A.KATZENELLENBOGEN". stolpersteine-konstanz.de. Retrieved 2023-11-12.
  6. ↑ "Dr. Adolf Katzenellenbogen, Johns Hopkins Professor, Dies". The New York Times. 1964-10-01. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-11-12.
  7. ↑ Biographie, Deutsche. "Katzenellenbogen, Adolf – Deutsche Biographie". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-11-12.
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