The Jewish modernist: Isaac Grünewald in Bertel Hintze’s art history
In the Finland-Swedish art historian and chef curator Bertel Hintze’s art historical handbook Modern konst: 1900-talet (Modern Art: Twentieth century), published in 1930, he introduce the Swedish artist Isaac Grünewald with a racial and anti-Semitic rhetoric. In this article Hintze’s rhetoric is ana...
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| description | In the Finland-Swedish art historian and chef curator Bertel Hintze’s art historical handbook Modern konst: 1900-talet (Modern Art: Twentieth century), published in 1930, he introduce the Swedish artist Isaac Grünewald with a racial and anti-Semitic rhetoric. In this article Hintze’s rhetoric is analyzed in relation to a widespread everyday anti-Semitism and the language used in earlier art critical discussion on Grünewald’s art. The article concludes that earlier anti-Semitic expressions, visible in the negative and nationalistically oriented criticism, have been incorporated into Hintze’s ambivalent, but basically positive, characterization of Grünewald. In doing so Hintze translocate the anti-Semitic rhetoric from a negative and disparaging criticism into ‘normal’ art history, an example of how the voice of anti-Semitism have been built into the language and structure of Swedish art historiography, even where anti-Semitism was not the object. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3ffb59ec056f452b9edcfaafa02f1ba52022-12-22T01:25:40ZengDepartment of Art History, University of BirminghamJournal of Art Historiography2042-47522016-12-011515LQ1The Jewish modernist: Isaac Grünewald in Bertel Hintze’s art historyLudwig Qvarnström0Lund UniversityIn the Finland-Swedish art historian and chef curator Bertel Hintze’s art historical handbook Modern konst: 1900-talet (Modern Art: Twentieth century), published in 1930, he introduce the Swedish artist Isaac Grünewald with a racial and anti-Semitic rhetoric. In this article Hintze’s rhetoric is analyzed in relation to a widespread everyday anti-Semitism and the language used in earlier art critical discussion on Grünewald’s art. The article concludes that earlier anti-Semitic expressions, visible in the negative and nationalistically oriented criticism, have been incorporated into Hintze’s ambivalent, but basically positive, characterization of Grünewald. In doing so Hintze translocate the anti-Semitic rhetoric from a negative and disparaging criticism into ‘normal’ art history, an example of how the voice of anti-Semitism have been built into the language and structure of Swedish art historiography, even where anti-Semitism was not the object.https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/qvarnstrom.pdfIsaac GrünewaldBertel Hintzeanti-SemitismSwedish Art Historymodernist narration |
| spellingShingle | Ludwig Qvarnström The Jewish modernist: Isaac Grünewald in Bertel Hintze’s art history Journal of Art Historiography Isaac Grünewald Bertel Hintze anti-Semitism Swedish Art History modernist narration |
| title | The Jewish modernist: Isaac Grünewald in Bertel Hintze’s art history |
| title_full | The Jewish modernist: Isaac Grünewald in Bertel Hintze’s art history |
| title_fullStr | The Jewish modernist: Isaac Grünewald in Bertel Hintze’s art history |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Jewish modernist: Isaac Grünewald in Bertel Hintze’s art history |
| title_short | The Jewish modernist: Isaac Grünewald in Bertel Hintze’s art history |
| title_sort | jewish modernist isaac grunewald in bertel hintze s art history |
| topic | Isaac Grünewald Bertel Hintze anti-Semitism Swedish Art History modernist narration |
| url | https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/qvarnstrom.pdf |
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