Ernst Guhl
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Ernst Karl Guhl | |
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| Born | 20 July 1818 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | 20 August 1862 (aged 44) Berlin, Germany |
| Occupation | Art historian |
| Employer(s) | Akademie der Kunst, Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität |
| Known for | Die Frauen in der Kunstgeschichte, Denkmäler der Kunst |
Ernst Karl Guhl (20 July 1818 – 20 August 1862) was a German art historian of the Berlin School of Art History (Berliner Schule der Kunstgeschichte). He focused on Ancient European, Ancient Greek, and Medieval culture. He is noted as the first historian to write a study specifically on female artists.
Guhl was born in Berlin to Adam Wilhelm Guhl and Wilhelmine Caroline Gehricke. He studied philology and archaeology as an undergraduate at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (now Humboldt University). Following the practice of other early art historians, Guhl traveled throughout Europe to study classical art and architecture, including a fifteen-month period of self-study in Italy from 1846 to 1847.[1]
He served as a Privatdozent beginning in 1848 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität. His Habilitation, Versuch über das Ionische Kapitäl (A Study on the Ionian Capital), was published in 1848 as a contribution to the history of Greek architecture. He began teaching in the summer of 1848, offering a course on the history of modern painting and a private course on ancient architecture.[1]
Guhl was hired in a temporary capacity to teach at the Akademie der Kunst in 1849; this appointment was made permanent in 1853. Between 1854 and 1858, he undertook four study trips to London, Paris, Spain, and Greece. Following a university-sponsored trip to Italy in 1861, he taught briefly at Berlin before succumbing to a brief illness. He died in Berlin at the age of 44.[1]
