Joseph Gantner
Joseph Gantner (Baden, Canton Aargau, Switzerland 11 September 1896—Basel 7 April 1988) was a Swiss art historian.
His father Alfred Gantner, a manager at
Gantner's studies took him to the universities at
He returned to Switzerland in 1933 when the Nazi menace began to increase. From 1926–28 and then again from 1933–38, he worked on a second Ph. D. from the University of Zurich. In 1938 at the age of 42 he was appointed Professor of Art History at the University of Basel, and remained there until retirement in 1967. In 1954 he became Rector of the University and that same year became a member of the Basel Art Museum Commission. He founded the Basler Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte in 1943, and edited the Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft from 1952 together with Heinrich Lützeler.[3]
His portrait was painted by Augusto Giacometti, a second cousin of Alberto Giacometti, and is now in the possession of his daughter Vera.[citation needed]
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References
- Death notice, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 9.4.1988
- Obituary, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 15.4.88
- Reiner Haussherr, obituary, in Jahrbuch. Mainz Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, 1991, pp. 108–112
- Caviezel-Rüegg, Zita: "Gantner, Joseph", Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz(online edition)
- "Gantner, Joseph", Dictionary of Art Historians (accessed 10 January 2010)
- Susan R. Henderson, "Building Culture: Ernst May and the New Frankfurt Initiative, 1926-1931" (Peter Lang, 2013).
- A full bibliography of his works can be found in J. Gantner: "Das Bild des Herzens": über Vollendung und Un-Vollendung in der Kunst. Reden und Aufsätze Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1979. (ISBN 3-7861-1195-2)