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Kurt Badt (March 3, 1890 in Berlin − November 22, 1973 in Überlingen) was a German art historian. ==Life and work== The son of a Berlin banker, Badt studied art history and philosophy first at the universities of Berlin and Munich and then in Freiburg, where he was a student of Wilhelm Vöge. Among his fellow students was the young Erwin Panofsky. Badt completed his doctoral dissertation on Andrea Solario in 1914. He started his career as an assistant at the Kunsthalle Bremen, but most of his life he was an independent scholar teaching privately, as his family was wealthy and he did not need an academic job in order to earn a living. According to Alfons Rosenberg, he lived the life of a Renaissance humanist.〔(Alfons Rosenberg, "In Memory of Dr Kurt Badt". ''AJR Information'', volume XXIX, no. 2, February 1974, p. 5. )〕 In 1939 he left Germany gaining a research position at the newly founded Warburg Institute in London. He returned to Germany in 1950, where he became a German citizen in 1952 and helped to reorganize the university system. His writings include studies on Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Eugène Delacroix, Nicolas Poussin, Jan Vermeer, John Constable, Paul Cézanne, Raphael, Vincent van Gogh, Paolo Veronese, Ernst Barlach and attacks on the methodology of the "second Vienna school" of art history dominated by Hans Sedlmayr. He considered "masterpieces" to be the only works of art worth studying. Badt radically separated works of art from the deeds in history: the first are what artists have in mind, their works interest and currently attract the viewer as such, whereas the historical deeds intend effects and are related to their consequences and therefore tend to be absorbed by them. Furthermore, Badt explained his new fundamental approach to interpretation with the difference between historical action and artistic making: he differentiated the artistic work process from the distinct plans and designs, seeing it in each stage to be identical with the work as a draft. Therefore, he was able to understand and explain the finished work out of its work process. He did not see the artistic process as a mere fabrication technique, but as a method making visible to our general understanding the essence of what is to be represented.〔(RUDOLF KUHN, "KURT BADT (1979)". )〕 His first marriage with Ella C. Wollheim dissolved in 1937, Badt married Helen "Leni" Arnheim (1906-1973), the sister of Rudolf Arnheim.〔''Die wahre Schönheit der Dinge: Kurt Badt''. Galerie Bodenseekreis Meersburg, 2013.〕 Aged 83, Badt committed suicide together with his second wife.〔(''Die wahre Schönheit der Dinge: Kurt Badt. Ein Leben für die Kunst'' ).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kurt Badt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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