Erwin Walter Palm
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Erwin Walter Palm (28 August 1910 – 7 July 1988) was a German Latin American scholar, historian, and writer.
Early years
Palm was born 28 August 1910 in
Exile
Particularly receptive to the malicious developments taking place in Nazi Germany, the couple fled to Italy in 1932 to escape the growing
Santo Domingo
However, their fears of the Nazi menace did not wane, and the couple tried frenetically to emigrate across the Atlantic. None of their preferred choices—the United States, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil—granted them a visa, while some charged them exorbitant sums of money which they didn't have. The only country to unconditionally welcome them was the Dominican Republic. There, they arrived in the port of San Pedro de Macorís in the summer of 1940.
In
In 1950, he masterminded and curated a pivotal exhibit of Colonial Art that for the first time gathered and interpreted the limited artifacts still remaining from the period when Santo Domingo was the capital of the New World. He properly catalogued the treasures of America's oldest cathedral (
Palm's meticulous research on the
Return to Germany
The Palms returned to Germany in 1954, first settling in Frankfurt/Main, then in
Palm excelled as a professor in his chosen area of Pre-Columbian, Portuguese and Spanish colonial art. He continued his special bond with Santo Domingo, publishing "Arquitectura y Arte Colonial en Santo Domingo (Architecture and Colonial Art in Santo Domingo, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo) in 1978. He was among other things a member of the Academia Mexicana de las Artes. In 1988 he was distinguished by the University of Augsburg with the university price for Spain and Latin American studies.
As a writer, Palm wrote poetry and also edited and translated
Erwin Walter palm died on 7 July 1988 in Heidelberg. He is celebrated in the Dominican Republic for his achievements in advancing scholarly research of the history and architecture of the early colonial period. In Santo Domingo, the Fundación Palm—whose mission is to study and promote Dominican patrimony, especially architecture, urbanism, and literature—was established in his honor.[1] In Germany, he served as a bridge, introducing Germans to Iberian American and Spanish art, architecture, and literature.
See also
References
- ^ "Fundacion Palm Inc. - .:aportando a la arquitectura dominicana:". www.fundacionpalm.org. Archived from the original on 15 November 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
External links
Fundación Erwin Walter Palm (in Spanish) http://www.fundacionpalm.org/drupal/index.php Archived 2018-11-15 at the Wayback Machine