Wilhelm Boeck
Wilhelm Boeck was a German art historian.
He was born in Giessen and from 1926 to 1931 studied classical archaeology and art history there and in Munich, Vienna and Berlin. He was a pupil of Edmund Hildebrandt and in 1929 won the Grimm Foundation Prize from the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Career
He taught as a lecturer and an unscheduled professor at the University of Tübingen. After the Second World War he was "one of the first German art historians to engage successfully with Cézanne's art and Picasso's work", though he was marginalised by Tübingen professor Hubert Schrade.
His main area of expertise was Gothic sculpture, the early Renaissance in Italy, Baroque Germany and 20th century art. As well as Cézanne and Picasso, his work particularly focussed on the art of HAP Grieshaber, publishing the first ever monograph on Grieshaber in 1959, the same year as Boeck won the Bodensee-Literaturpreis.
Honors and awards
In 1989 he was awarded the Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg.
Death and legacy
He died in Tübingen and his written estate is now held by the German Art Archive, part of the German National Museum in Nuremberg.
Selected works
Oberitalien und Toskana in der Kunst der Renaissance, Borna-Leipzig 1930 Alte Berliner Kirchen, Atlantis-Verlag, Berlin 1937 Oranienburg. Geschichte eines preußischen Königsschlosses, Berlin 1938Balthasar Permoser, Der Bildhauer des deutschen Barocks, August Hopfer Verlag, 1938Paolo Uccello. Der Florentiner Meister und sein Werk, Grote, Berlin 1939Alte Gartenkunst - Eine Stilgeschichte in Beispielen, L.Staackmann Verlag, Leipzig 1939Andrea Mantegna. Der Meister der oberitalienischen Frührenaissance, August Hopfer, 1942Deutsche Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts, in: Moderne deutsche Kunst, Tübingen 1947Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer, Wasmuth, Tübingen 1948Der Hochaltar in Blaubeuren, Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftliches Lichtbild, München 1950Der Tiefenbronner Altar von Lucas Moser, Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftliches Lichtbild, München 1951Birnau am Bodensee, Hirmer, München 1953Pablo Picasso, mit einer Lebensbeschreibung von Jaime Sabartes. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1955HAP Grieshaber - Holzschnitte, Verlag Günther Neske, Pfullingen 1959Der Bamberger Meister. Mit Beiträgen von Urs Boeck, Katzmann-Verlag, Tübingen 1960Rembrandt, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1962Pablo Picasso - Linolschnitte, Hatje, Stuttgart 1962Der Bildhauer Philipp Harth, in: Philipp Harth - Plastiken und Zeichnungen, Mainz 1962Inkunabeln der Bildniskarikatur bei Bologneser Zeichnern des 17. Jahrhunderts, Verlag Gert Hatje, Stuttgart 1968Tiepolo-Zeichnungen in Stuttgart. In: Kunstchronik. Volume 24, 1971, S. 57–60.Picasso - Zeichnungen, DuMont Schauberg, Köln 1973Der Bildhauer, Altarbauer und Stukkateur Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer, Gessler, Friedrichshafen 1981.