Full Name: Hintze, Erwin
Gender: male
Date Born: 31 December 1876
Date Died: 01 August 1931
Place Born: Strasbourg, Grand Est, France
Place Died: Breslau, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): painting (visual works)
Institution(s): Stadtschloss (Wrocław)
Overview
Hintze was the son of the mineralogist Carl Hintze (1851-1916). From 1897 to 1901 he studied art history and classical archeology at the University of Wrocław. Beginning in October, 1901, he worked as a research assistant under Karl Masner (1858-1936) at the Silesian Museum of Decorative Arts and Antiquities in Wrocław. In 1913 he was appointed professor. From 1926 he directed the Palace Museum in the Wrocław City Palace, from 1929 until his death he was the director of the Municipal Museums in Wrocław. While director, he hired Ernst Scheyer as an assistant.
His area of interest was the history of the arts and crafts, especially goldsmithing and tin foundry.
Selected Bibliography
- Der Einfluss der Mystiker auf die ältere Kölner Malerschule, den ‘Meister der Madonna mit der Bohnenblüte’ und Stephan Lochner. Dissertation Breslau 1901;
- Die Breslauer Goldschmiede. Eine archivalische Studie. Breslau 1906;
- Schlesische Goldschmiede. Breslau 1912–1916;
- Die deutsche Zinngießer und ihre Marken. 7 Bände. Hiersemann, Leipzig 1921–1931;
- Nürnberger Zinn. Leipzig 1921;
- Gleiwitzer Eisenkunstguß. Breslau 1928.
Sources
- Wendland, Ulrike. Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil: Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler. Munich: Saur, 1999, vol. 2, p. 605, mentioned;
- Piotr Łukaszewicz: Hintze, Erwin. In: Encyklopedia Wrocławia. Breslau 2000, S. 270.
Contributors: Cassandra Klos