Kohlhaussen, Heinrich

Date born: 1894

Place born: Rauisch-Holzhausen, Germany

Date died: 1970

Place died: Lorsch, Germany

K. is still regarded as one of the most profound knowledge of the discipline often with arrogance discarded * * arts and crafts. He understood bter * everything by hand for any particular Gebrauchszwtck created artistically refined Geriit ~. Because of this dual function whether in the past always closely related to real life process of human wrbunden than the biI-dtnden arts, since the rg. Century, but more and more on oceans * Islands irn a kunsrfremdenTechnifiziemng * nirickgdrÈngtumden. In K. da5 was an art-craft eloquent lawyer, by this Erschlicflung ~ QuelIeisthe-UschenVergnügensu especially for the general dieJugend to BedüAis-schöp feri ~ hermanueller hoped to demand work.

Kohlhaussen studied art history in Marburg and Berlin until World War I, when he was called for military service. He returned to his studies in1918 at Marburg, receiving his doctorate under Richard Hamann (q.v.) in1922. war he initially as a researcher, then as an assistant of + Sauerlandt at Hamburg's Museum of Arts and Crafts operate until 1933, he appointed director of the city Kunstsamnhp-lau ßres appointment. In the 1920erJahren started for the K. of Forniensprache mi ~ telaltcrlichrnMinneKÈstchen to intemtieren he veröEentlichte AuEitze and 1928eine fundamental work on this issue. By linking with the Min-neIyrik he bi ~ round this little-noticed Zeupsse medieval art handwerks, as the bride and Hochzeitsgrschenkc as friendship and love gave widespread, in their kulrurellen Korirext, * on the mental Werdensprozeßm to illuminate . The methodology focused K.dabei irn we - irritlichen to Snlvergleiche. DIC to Fcststelliing eiiics zeitbedingeii Stilwilleiiq. ~ ufGoldcchrniede and Elfetibeirikun <t. Kathedralpla \ tik or Hildteppiclie jc \ vcilr wcl ~ sclnden have exercised Einfluli As Quinterwnz vor1 K-reflection and research iiher the Kuiicthandwerk can within the sechqteil ~ ~ genBruckmann-Kuti tgeschichtc (iyl + ~ H)-~ chieneneBand ubcr dac German crafts angereheti, which heden-tcndcre work on this since Theiiia - + Falkes bahnhrecliendcr Lci <tuiig vor1 1888 Classified-Stilcpochen in the development of individual genres (earthenware, Por-zellan, furniture, Goldschniiedekunct) aher only 1111 Baroque and Rococo treated - embeds Eie their subject in a context weitgreifenden historischrn history deq deiit ~ chen crafts <was only for K. nals part of a large Ganzcnq mciglich they go ~ re soivohl the allgenicinen Kunstgc ~ cliithte, such as the. ALIGHT co many groDer name I..] Syrlin, your, Holbein, belt-up whneider Permo to ~ erund Schinkelo andeute, as well as the political and so-Speed 71aleii ~ nights. Social tensions articulated by $ Kr I convinced iricht riur in the so-called fteien Kuncten, but also in other Mobilinr uiid reni household. K 1937-45 was director of Germanischer Nationalrnuseum ~ iii Nurnbcrg BesondcreVerdienste entarb he is there by the Neuorgani5atiori the Sanimlung, the draft leaner and ubcrsichtlicherzn Ausstellunt?; Ikonzept <, and ~ hre Enveiteriing especially irn craft Uereich, where he gaps beiin tools , Beini porcelain, earthenware and glaziers closed. Similar to tasks faced K. also on the Veste Cnhurg whose customers ~ trammlungen he headed since 1950. He reorganized venchiedenartige Cachgruppen and took slc to cultural aspects didakt a rchen Aiis ~ ~ tellungkonzcpt zusaminen. K. 1959 went into retirement. His research was now before riehmlich the Nuremberg goldsmith's art. Ilir result was an extensive, außcnt vielfiltige Matrrial ~ amrnlung, all secured Goldschrniedewerke, including rro gernarktc pieces, contained since the beginning 7um irn 13th century until the end of Dürer time entiranden were: Siegel, IIuchbeschlage, chalices, trophies, Mon ~ tranztn, T ~ schbrunnen, silver vessels. General interest in art history from 1 ~ t this <until today LqlngeStandardwerk through its linkages to the visual arts; Sprachc to come uriter including the stylistic Bezic relations zwiqchen the figurative 1) arstellungen the seal and the Nuremberg ßauhuttenplast ~ k Dürer and contribution to arts and crafts.

Home Country: Germany

Sources: Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. 2nd ed. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2007, pp. .

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