Full Name: Weese, Arthur
Other Names:
- Arthur Weese
Gender: male
Date Born: 09 June 1868
Date Died: 30 May 1934
Place Born: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Place Died: Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): Medieval (European) and Renaissance
Overview
Renaissance and medievalist art historian at the university in Bern, 1905-1934. Weese’s family were from the Silesian area of Prussia (modern Poland). His father, Ernst Weese, was a merchant; his mother was Clara Schreiber (Weese). He was born in Warschau, Prussia, which is present-day Warsaw, Poland. He married an opthamologist daughter, Grete Förster. Weese studied at the universities in Breslau, Leipzig, Munich and Rome. He wrote his habilitation in Munich in 1898 on the sculpture of Bamberg cathedral. He remained a privatdozent there until 1905. He was called to Bern as ausserordentlicher professor in April of 1905 rising to ordentlicher professor in June of 1906. Weese published books on medieval art, Renaissance art and on the contemporary art of Switzerland. At his death he was succeeded in Basle by Hans R. Hahnloser.
Selected Bibliography
[habilitation?] Die Bamberger Domsculpturen: Ein Beitrag zur Geschicht Geschichteder deutschen Plastik des XIII. Jahrhunderts. Strassburg: Heitz, 1897. Baldassare Peruzzis Anteil an dem malerischen Schmucke der Villa Farnesina. Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1894; Die Schöne Mensch in Mittelalter und Renaissance. Munich: Hirth, 1900; München: eine Anregung zum Sehen. Leipzig: Seemann, 1906; Ferdinand Hodler. Bern: Verlag von A. Francke, 1910; Die Kunst im Buchgewerbe. Bern: Verlag der Schweizerischen Gutenbergstube, Historisches Museum, 1913; Skulptur und Malerei in Frankreich im XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts. Wildpark-Potsdam: Athenaion, 1927.
Sources
Wer ist’s? Unsere Zeitgenossen. Degener, Hermann A. L., ed. 4th ed. Berlin: Degener, 1909, p. 339; Schweizerisches Zeitgenossenlexikon. Aellen, Hermann, ed. 2nd ed. Bern: Gotthelf-Verl., 1932, p. 348; Historisch-biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz. Heinrich Türler, Marcel Godet, Victor Attinger, eds. Supplement. Neuenburg: Attinger, 1934, p. 351; Dvorák, Max. Idealism and Naturalism in Gothic Art. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1967, p. 236 mentioned.