"What is Baroque?"

]> ms.40 Katzenellenbogen (Adolf ) 1901-1964 Papers 1933-1964 Ms. 40 M.C. Beecheno Special Collections, The Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University

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Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Marius Stan Finding aid written in English Katzenellenbogen (Adolf ) 1901-1964 Papers 1933-1964 Ms. 40 Special CollectionsThe Milton S. Eisenhower Library The Johns Hopkins University Contact Information Special Collections The Milton S. Eisenhower Library The Johns Hopkins University 3400 North Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218 (410) 516-8323 Processed by: M.C. Beecheno Date completed: July 1985, August 1987 Encoded by: Marius Stan

Descriptive Summary Ms. 40 Katzenellenbogen (Adolf ) 1901-1964Papers 1933-1964 Katzenellenbogen, Adolf, 1901-1964 Johns Hopkins University. Special Collections 6 document boxes (2.5 linear ft.) English, German This collection spans the years 1933 - 1964, and consists of manuscript and typewritten notes on art, architecture, painting, and sculpture; also lectures, essays, correspondence; manuscript of Katzenellenbogen's prize-winning book The Sculptural Programs of Chartres Cathedral. There are also 3 loose-leaf binders containing typewritten notes on art, and a card index of research and/or lecture notes. Some of the material is in German. Administrative Information Provenance

The papers of Adolf Katzenellenbogen were presented to the Library by his widow in 1972. A card index of research and/or lecture notes regarding sculpture, painting and Byzantine iconography came to light in storage in the summer of 1987 and has been incorporated with the rest of the collection.

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Permission to publish material from this collection must be requested in writing from the Manuscripts Librarian, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Md. 21218.

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Adolf Katzenellenbogen Papers Ms. 40Special CollectionsMilton S. Eisenhower LibraryThe Johns Hopkins University

Biographical Note

Adolf Katzenellenbogen, internationally known art historian, was born in Germany in Frankfurt-am-Main on August 19, 1901. He was educated at the universities of Freiburg, Leipzig, Munich, Frankfurt and Giessen in 1924, and he received a doctor of philosophy degree in 1933 at the University of Hamburg. After graduating from Giessen University he joined an industrial firm for several years as an advisor. He then returned to academic life. He came to the United States shortly before World War II, having left his native Germany because of his disagreement with Nazism. He joined the faculty of Vassar College in 1940 and remained there until 1958 when he came to Johns Hopkins University as full professor and department chairman.

A specialist in the late Medieval and early Renaissance periods, Adolf Katzenellenbogen published a number of papers in scholarly journals both in the United States and abroad. His book "The Sculptural Programs of Chartres Cathedral" won the Charles Rufus Morey prize in 1959 for the best work on art history. Dr. Katzenellenbogen lectured frequently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the University of Chicago, Princeton University, and the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. He served on the Board of the Baltimore Museum of Art, and in 1961 was named to the Baltimore Art Commission. In 1963 he was a visiting member of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

He married Elizabeth Holzheu and they had two children, John A. and Ruth P. Katzenellenbogen. Adolf Katzenellenbogen died of a heart attack on September 30, 1964.

Description of Series/Container List Container List Container List Box Contents 1 Architecture I

Notes on: Baroque Architecture; The Central Tympanum of Vezelay, Early Christian, Byzantine, Carolingian Architecture, Early Renaissance Architecture, Gothic Architecture.

1 Architecture II

Notes on: Italian Romanesque Architecture; Renaissance Architecture, Romanesque Architecture.

1 Art I

"What is Baroque?", lecture by Edwin Panofsky, Vassar, May 1953; Lecture notes: Ottoman and Romanesque Art; German Art in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Notes and reports on Graphic Art. Notes on: Early Christian Art; Flemish and French Art; Reality of Ideas in Medieval Art; Religious Art; Religious Art in Spain 17th Century; Renaissance Art

2 Art II

Notes on Southern German and Swiss Art; Art in the Church; Graphic Art; Southern German Art. Seminar on Renaissance Art.

2 Painting I

Notes on: Early Flemish Painting; Dutch Painting; Flemish and Dutch Painting; Flemish Painting; Northern Painting.

2 Painting II

Notes on: French Painting; French Painting 17th and 18th Centuries; German Painting 16th Century

3 Painting III

Notes on: Italian Baroque Painting; Mannerism; Manneristic Painting in Italy Northern Painting; Early Renaissance Painting.

3 Painting IV

Notes on: Northern Painting; Spanish Painting 17th and 18th Centuries; Herbert and Jan Van Eyck; Miscellaneous articles on Painting.

3 Sculpture I

Notes on: Gothic Sculpture; French Sculpture 14th - 16th Centuries; French Romanesque Sculpture; French Gothic Sculpture; Gothic Sculpture; Early Gothic Sculpture in France 1135 - 1200.

4 Sculpture II

Notes on: German Sculpture 13th, 14th and 15th - 16th centuries; German Romanesque Sculpture.

4 Sculpture III

Notes on: Romanesque Sculpture; Spanish Romanesque Sculpture; Pre-Romanesque Sculpture.

5 Misc. A-B

Angleton, Cicely - "Holbein's Dance of Death" (student's essay); Notes on: Antiquity and the Middle Ages; Art of Chaucer's Contemporaries; "Allegories of the Virtues and Vices in Medieval Art," (reprint) by Adolf Katzenellenbogen, 1939; Benedict, Martha - "Transition from Late Gothic to Mannerism in the works of Lucas Cranach" (student's essay).

5 Misc. C

Manuscript of "The Sculptural Programs of Chartres Cathedral," by Adolf Katzenellenbogen, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1959. Notes on: Christological Scenes in Medieval Art; The Changing Image of the Prophets; Comedy and Tragedy in Peter Bruegel.

5 Misc. D-E

Notes on: Durer and Rembrandt Portraits; Ecclesia, Christ, Mary. Examinations in Art, Vassar College, 1940 -1957; 1956 - 1957, 1957 - 1958; Johns Hopkins University, 1958 - 1959

5 Misc. F-L

Notes on: The Four Evangelists and the Symbolism of Numbers; Forms and Meaning; Goldschmidt, Adolph - " An Early Manuscript of the Aesop Fables of Avianus and Related Manuscripts," Princeton University Press, 1947, book review by Adolf Kattzenellenbogen. Notes on: History's Impact on Art. Lecture - "The Image of Christ in the Early Middle Ages," University of Minnesota, April 10, 1963. Notes on: The Image of Christ, etc.; Iconography or Iconology.

6 Misc. M-V

McDowell, Agnes - "Adrian Brouwer" (student's essay); Lecture - "The Medieval Allegories of Virtues and Vices"; Notes on: Pietro Longhi "Mascarade in a Gambling House" ; notes on: Poussin - Rubens; Rembrandt's Portraiture; Lectures: "The Representtion of the Seasons" and "Representation of the Seven Liberal Arts in the Middle Ages." Stewart - "Quentin Massys" (student's essay); Notes on Early, High, Late Styles. Swan, Mary Belle - "From Late Gothic to Mannerism in the North," 1948 (student's essay). Notes on: "The Two Testaments in Medieval Art." Lecture - "Varianten in der Darstellung des Apostel-kollegiums um 1200." Letters -- Correspondents: Albert Boeckler; Eve Borsook; Lavinia Dudley; Adolph Goldschmidt; Wilhelm Kohler; David Robb.Biographic data of Adolf and Elizabeth Katzenellenbogen; list of Katzenellenbogen's writings. Adolf Katzenellenbogen's writings. Adolf Katzenellenbogen's dissertation: "Die Psychomachie in der Kunst des Mittelalters," Hamburg, 1933.

Card index of manuscript research and/or lecture notes re Medieval Art; Gothic Sculpture; Flemish, German, French and Italian Painting.

Card index of manuscript research and/or lecture notes re Chartres, Apostles, Byzantine Iconography.