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.