Erna Auerbach

Erna Auerbach
Born 1897 (1897)
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Died 1975 (aged 77–78)
London, United Kingdom
Nationality German–British
Education Courtauld Institute
Known for Art History, Painting

Erna Auerbach (Frankfurt am Main 1897–London 1975) was a German-born artist and art historian best known for her work on artists of the Tudor-era in England.

Biography

She was the daughter of the painter Emma Kehrmann (1867-1958).[1] She studied art history at the universities of Frankfurt, Bonn and Munich, under Rudolf Kautzsch, who supervised her doctotate, and Heinrich Wölfflin. But she trained as a painter after taking her doctorate. She exhibited in Germany and, after emigrating to England in 1933 (her family was Jewish), in her new home as well. When her studio was destroyed in World War II, she returned to art history.

She studied at the Courtauld Institute in London after the war, focusing on the artists of the Tudor court, and wrote a second dissertation on patronage and painting in 16th-century England.[1] This would become the subject of her first published book, Tudor Artists (1954), the first work in modern times to lay out the documentary sources for the arts of painting and limning in the Tudor and Elizabethan periods.[2]

She died in London in 1975.[1]

Publications

  • Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VIII to the Death of Elizabeth I, Athlone, 1954
  • Nicholas Hilliard, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961
  • Paintings and sculpture at Hatfield House, Constable, 1971, ISBN 978-0094576407

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Sorenson, Lee (ed.). "Auerbach, Erna". Dictionary of Art Historians. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  2. ↑ Howard, Maurice. "Historiographies for Painting in Tudor Britain". Retrieved 13 November 2014.
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