Henry Thode
German art historian
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (July 2021) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
- Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
- Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 9,160 articles in the main category, and specifying
|topic=will aid in categorization. - Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
- You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is
Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Henry Thode]]; see its history for attribution. - You may also add the template
{{Translated|de|Henry Thode}}to the talk page. - For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.
Henry Thode (13 January 1857 – 19 November 1920) was a German art historian. He was born in Dresden and died in Copenhagen.
Biography
He was an art historian at the time of the Weimar republic. He wrote against the prevailing ideas of the time that art from outside of Germany, such as French Impressionism was superior to traditional academic or native art.
Thode believed that great German art should illustrate technical skill, realism and the German spirit. He also felt that art should be understood by all, not just academics and the bourgeois. Thode wrote a great deal about how the modern art of the Impressionists attempted to both destroy 'true' German art and the 'true' German spirit.
His philosophies were very important in the formulation of the cultural policies of the Third Reich, especially in terms of 'degenerate' art.
His wife was Daniela von Bülow, first daughter of Hans von Bülow and Cosima Liszt.
References
- Clinefelter, J.L. (2005), Artists for the Reich, New York: Berg Press.
External links
- Biography
Authority control databases  | |
|---|---|
| International |
|
| National |
|
| Academics |
|
| Artists |
|
| People |
|
| Other |
|
- v
- t
- e
