Friedrich Rintelen (art historian)
Friedrich Rintelen (20 February 1881 – 4 May 1926) was a German art historian.
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Biography
Friedrich Rintelen was born in Berlin, the sixth child of Friedrich Rintelen, who later became president of the Prussian Superior Agrarian Court. After graduating from high school, Rintelen attended the seminary in Paderborn in 1899. A year later Rintelen studied philosophy at the University of Munich and received his doctorate with highest honors in 1902 for his dissertation Leibnizens Beziehung zur Scholastik ("Leibniz Relationship to Scholasticism"). He later became an assistant under Gustav Ludwig at the Institute of Art History in Florence. When the latter died, Rintelen became his successor. In 1909, he habilitated in Berlin and was appointed professor there in 1912. From 1914, he taught as a full professor of art history at the University of Basel. In the winter semester of 1914/15, Theodor Hetzer received his doctorate from him in Basel. In 1925, he additionally took over the direction of the Kunstmuseum Basel.
Rintelen suffered from a kidney disease and died during his spa stay in Catania. His son was the ophthalmologist Friedrich Rintelen (1906–1991).
Works
- "Leibnizens Beziehungen zur Scholastik," Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 16 (1903), pp. 157–89, 307–34.
- "Tizians Porträt des Antonio Anselmi," Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen Kunstsammlungen 26 (1905), pp. 202–04 (as Fritz Rintelen).
- "Das Altarwerk in der Sakristei von St. Peter in Rom," Allgemeinen Zeitung, No. 287 (Dezember 1905), pp. 482–85.
- Giotto und die Giottoapokryphen (1912).
- "Dante über Cimabue," Monatshefte für Kunstwissenschaft 10 (1917), pp. 97–113.
- Reden und Aufsätze (1927).
References
- Schmidt, Georg (1926). "Friedrich Rintelen," Das Werk. Architektur und Kunst, Vol. 13, pp. 198–204.
