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Auerbach, Ingeborg Any

    Full Name: Auerbach, Ingeborg Any

    Other Names:

    • née Ingeborg Fraenckel

    Gender: female

    Date Born: 1903

    Place Born: Blankenese, Hamburg, Germany

    Home Country/ies: Germany

    Subject Area(s): Italian (culture or style), Italian Renaissance-Baroque styles, and Renaissance


    Overview

    Art historian of Italian renaissance. Auerbach studied art history in Hamburg with the so-called Hamburg School art historians Charles de Tolnay, Fritz Saxl, Aby M. Warburg and Erwin Panofsky. She wrote her dissertation under Panofsky on Andrea del Sarto in 1932. She married one of the first Bauhaus school students, the sculptor and graphic artist Johannes Auerbach (changed to John Allenby in England,1900-1950) and immigrated to England in 1938. Auerbach never practiced art history after her immigration, but contributed to the festschrift on on Walter Friedlaender, 1933.


    Selected Bibliography

    Die Malerischen Werke des Andrea del Sarto (dissertation), Hamburg, 1933, Strassbourg, 1935; “Jugendwerke Pontornos,” in Festschrift Walter Friedlaender 60. Geburtstag am 10. März 1933 (Manuscript, 1933); “Andrea del Sarto (1486-1531), Head of the Apostle Thomas, Rome, Galleria Corsini,” Old Master Drawings 9 (1934-5): 5.


    Sources

    Ulrike Wendland, Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil: Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler. München: Saur, 1999, vol. 1, 17; Gabriele Hofner-Kulenkamp, Kunsthistorikerinnen in Exil (Manuscript, Hamburg, 1991); Roger Willemsen, “Munter ins Ableben: Johannes Ilmari Auerbach veranstaltet einen Selbstmorderwettbewerb,” Die Zeit December 12, 1996: 5.




    Citation

    "Auerbach, Ingeborg Any." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/auerbachi/.


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