tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post6972444262392979471..comments2024-03-29T15:04:20.549+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: Nikolaus Pevsner - greatest architectural historian ever?Helshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-4130368066313122692020-03-26T14:25:48.064+11:002020-03-26T14:25:48.064+11:00mem
When the Nazis took over the German governmen...mem<br /><br />When the Nazis took over the German government in 1933, many people did fear for their lives and left Germany, but only if they could get visas to other countries. On the other hand, proud Germans who had fought for the Fatherland in WW1, held important jobs, earned honours and made money during the interwar years, had NO plans to leave. Especially secular Jews and proud Germans, like Hugo and Anna Pevsner.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-26216137696302922772020-03-26T12:52:27.150+11:002020-03-26T12:52:27.150+11:00Interesting . I am glad he loved his family . So s...Interesting . I am glad he loved his family . So sad about his parents but it all must have felt so surreal and unbelievable to them .memhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05520080648914042943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-41117465749756963212020-03-25T18:07:39.694+11:002020-03-25T18:07:39.694+11:00mem
Pevsner's parents refused to leave their ...mem<br /><br />Pevsner's parents refused to leave their beloved Germany but Nikolaus' grandparents lived in London and would be close family for the new arrivals. Later Nikolaus learned that his father had been murdered (in 1940) and his mother committed suicide in Germany (in 1941), in order not to be sent to a concentration camp.<br /><br />Nikolaus loved his children and his students, but he was so busy during the days and nights, the relationships may not have been as close as they would have wanted.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-51678520115640787042020-03-25T16:08:16.151+11:002020-03-25T16:08:16.151+11:00what an amazing life . He seems to have demanded a...what an amazing life . He seems to have demanded and taken the freedom to be himself at the very core of his being . I wonder how he got on with parents and then with his own children.memhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05520080648914042943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-70934350880582068732020-03-25T10:31:57.760+11:002020-03-25T10:31:57.760+11:00bazza
I wish I knew you as a teenager. Most of th...bazza<br /><br />I wish I knew you as a teenager. Most of the boys I knew would not have read an architectural history book, unless it was mandated by their school or uni. My own sons barely read books that WERE mandated by their school or uni *sorry sigh*.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-9780986620737330722020-03-25T10:29:08.019+11:002020-03-25T10:29:08.019+11:00Hilary
Pevsner was very fortunate to leave German...Hilary<br /><br />Pevsner was very fortunate to leave Germany in the middle 1930s, even though he was locked up in a prisoner of war camp in Liverpool early in the war years. He learned brilliant English (with an accent) and met every other German academic in the same position as he was: Walter Neurath, Aby Warburg, Erwin Panofsky, EH Gombrich, Adolf Katzenellenbogen, Otto Kurz, Fritz Saxl and Rudolf Wittkower. I think he walked every street in Britain, taking notes of the architecture and doing drawings :)Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-46102218989644719952020-03-25T01:49:27.726+11:002020-03-25T01:49:27.726+11:00The first book on Architecture that I bought, as a...The first book on Architecture that I bought, as a teenager, was a book by Pevsner about the buildings of England, full of detailed line drawings. I'm not sure where it is now but I devoured it at the time (I didn't eat it!).<br />He seemed to me like an ancient and distant being so thanks for filling in some background.<br /><b><a href="http://todiscoverice.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"> CLICK HERE for Bazza’s sometimes Sartorial Blog ‘To Discover Ice’</a></b>bazzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794010156639774028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-79471470276225570172020-03-24T22:36:50.175+11:002020-03-24T22:36:50.175+11:00Hi Hels - thanks for this ... I really enjoyed the...Hi Hels - thanks for this ... I really enjoyed the read - and have learnt where Pevsner came from ... he is so often cited and referred to - so I knew his worth ... but had no idea of the background and how he ended up here ... thanks so much - cheers HilaryHilary Melton-Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17596532480645510678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-91130239206264856142020-03-24T22:33:21.807+11:002020-03-24T22:33:21.807+11:00Student
we are trying to proceed with lectures vi...Student<br /><br />we are trying to proceed with lectures via Zoom from home. But you are correct.... life isn't the same :( As long as we are all healthy and well!<br /><br />And of course you are correct about Pevsner concentrating on German and British architecture. Most of Pevsner's writing about French architecture seemed to be providing origins of, and comparisons with British architecture eg high gothic, 13th century. <br /><br />Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-15498424888866957742020-03-24T22:21:51.766+11:002020-03-24T22:21:51.766+11:00Parnassus
most people love their own era's cu...Parnassus<br /><br />most people love their own era's cultural objects, in architecture, music, visual arts, even literature. But they think their parents' generation had horrid taste and wouldn't touch their inheritances with a barge pole. The grandparents had better taste, and the great-grandparents' generation had the best taste of all. Thus I might loathe Rococo (C17th), love Georgian (1714–1837), found Victorian stodgy and Edwardian much more liberating etc.<br /><br />Pevsner took each type of architecture seriously, in its own right. I like to think he actually admired the functionalist Bauhaus style (1919-33) most, but that is probably because I loved Bauhaus :)<br /><br />Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-73207851741443117102020-03-24T20:03:11.724+11:002020-03-24T20:03:11.724+11:00Hel, I am so sorry the Museum has closed for now a...Hel, I am so sorry the Museum has closed for now and the lectures postponed. Mind you, Pevsner had more to say about German and British architecture than he did about French.<br />Student of Historynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-39506062087718459382020-03-24T19:40:27.535+11:002020-03-24T19:40:27.535+11:00Hello Hels, I get tired just reading about all of...Hello Hels, I get tired just reading about all of Pevsner's accomplishments and activities. I admired that although he championed Modern architecture, he knew the importance of protecting monuments from all periods--remember that in the 1950's, Victorian was often considered an eyesore rather than something to admire and save.<br />--JimParnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.com