Adolph Goldschmidt
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1863 – 1944
Who was Adolph Goldschmidt?
Adolph Goldschmidt was a Jewish German art historian.
He was born in Hamburg. After a short business career he devoted himself to the study of the history of art at the universities of Jena, Kiel, and Leipzig. He took his degree in 1889 with the dissertation Lübecker Malerei und Plastik bis 1530, the first detailed analysis of the medieval 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, he became Privatdozent at the University of Berlin.
His Studien zur Geschichte der Sächsischen Skulptur in der Uebergangszeit vom Romanischen zum Gotischen Stil 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" for the first time showed the door of the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio in Milan to be a monument of early 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.
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