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Keith Andrews (art historian)

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Keith Andrews
Born
Kurt Hermann Aufrichtig

(1920-10-11)11 October 1920
Hamburg, Weimar Republic
Died4 April 1989(1989-04-04) (aged 68)
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
NationalityBritish
Alma materCourtauld Institute
Occupations
EmployerNational Gallery of Scotland

Keith Andrews FRSE (11 October 1920 – 4 April 1989) was a German-born British art historian and museum curator.

Early life

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Keith Andrews was born Kurt Hermann Aufrichtig in Hamburg on 11 October 1920, the son of Sabine Kalter (1889–1957) and Max Aufrichtig (1879–1950).[1] His mother, born to a German speaking Polish Galician Jewish family in Jarosław, Galicia, Austria-Hungary was a leading mezzo-soprano at the Hamburg State Opera.[2][3][4] His father, born in Breslau (present-day Wrocław), was a banker in Hamburg.[5] Andrews had a younger sister Rene Andrews (1923–1992), born Renate Berta Aufrichtig.[6][7] The family fled Nazi Germany in January 1935 and settled in London with Andrews becoming a naturalised British citizen in 1947.[8][9][1]

Education

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Andrews was educated at Quäkerschule Eerde [de] a Schulen im Exil [de] in Eerde, Ommen.[9] At the age of 17 he contracted Poliomyelitis, which caused permanent muscle weakness in both legs.[9] Returning to London, Andrews attended Night school at the Courtauld Institute twice a week, earning his diploma in the early 1950s.[9][10][11] During this time he was well known at Warburg Institute, with Gertrud Bing referring to Andrews' as "a child of the house".[9]

Andrews was awarded an Honorary MA from the University of Edinburgh[11] and an Honorary D Litt from University of Glasgow in 1985.[9]

Career

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During his studies at the Courtauld, Andrews worked at Ernst Seligmann's antiquarian bookshop 'E Seligmann, Books & Prints' on Cecil Court.[12][13][9] In 1955 Andrews was employed as an Art Librarian and Curator at the then Liverpool City Libraries, remaining there until 1958.[11][9]

In 1958 Andrews' joined the Department of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Scotland as 'Keeper of Prints and Drawings'.[9] Andrew's publications on Adam Elsheimer (1578–1610) are of particular importance.[10]

Andrews' was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in March 1989.[11]

Selected publications

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  • Andrews, Keith (1964). The Nazarenes: A Brotherhood of German Painters in Rome. Oxford : Clarendon Press.
  • Andrews, Keith (1971). Adam Elsheimer : Il contento. Edinburgh : Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Scotland.
  • Andrews, Keith (1972). "The Elsheimer inventory and other documents". The Burlington Magazine. 114 (834): 595–600, 603–607.
  • Andrews, Keith (1973). "A Pseudo-Elsheimer Group: Adriaen van Stalbemt as Figure Painter". The Burlington Magazine. 115 (842): 301–307.
  • Andrews, Keith (1973). "Elsheimer and Albrecht Dürer : An attempt towards a clarification of Elsheimer's early work". Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst. XXIV: 159-174.
  • Andrews, Keith (1977). Adam Elsheimer : Paintings, Drawings, Prints. Oxford : Phaidon.
  • National Gallery of Scotland; Andrews, Keith (1991). Catalogue of German drawings in the National Gallery of Scotland : with an appendix containing catalogue entries on the drawings by Scandinavian artists. Edinburgh: Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland.

References

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  1. ^ a b The National Archives. "HO 334/181/27602, Naturalisation Certificate: Kurt Hermann Aufrichtig. From Germany. Resident in Stanmore, Middlesex. Certificate AZ27602 issued 13 June 1947". The National Archives' Website: Discovery. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
  2. ^ Geschichtomat Hamburg (2021). "Sabine Kalter: Ein Leben für die Musik". YouTube (in German). Retrieved 31 March 2025.
  3. ^ The National Archives. "HO 396/3/203, Name: Sabine Aufrichtig. Date of Birth: 28/03/1898. Place of Birth: Jaroslau, Poland, 30 October 1939". The National Archives' Website: Discovery. Retrieved 26 March 2025.
  4. ^ Boisits, Barbara (2013). "Galizische Musikstudierende in Wien um 1900". Musikgeschichte in Mittel- und Osteuropa (in German). 14 (14). Leipzig: Gudrun Schröder Verlag: 33–56. Retrieved 31 March 2025.
  5. ^ The National Archives. "HO 396/3/200, Name: Max Aufrichtig. Date of Birth: 08/7/1879. Place of Birth: Breslau, 30 October 1939". The National Archives' Website: Discovery. Retrieved 26 March 2025.
  6. ^ The National Archives. "HO 396/3/202, Name: Renate Berta Aufrichtig. Date of Birth: 09/9/1923. Place of Birth: Hamburg, 23 October 1939". The National Archives' Website: Discovery. Retrieved 26 March 2025.
  7. ^ Deaths index (CR) Scotland. "Haymarket, Edinburgh. 29 May 1992. ANDREWS, Rene. 730/386". Scotlands People. Retrieved 26 March 2025.
  8. ^ Fetthauer, S (2006). "Sabine Kalter". In Maurer Zenck, C; Petersen, P (eds.). Lexikon verfolgter Musiker und Musikerinnen der NS-Zeit (in German). Hamburg: University of Hamburg Press.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i White, Christopher (October 1989). "Obituaries: Keith Andrews". The Burlington Magazine. 131 (1039): 706–708. JSTOR 883994.
  10. ^ a b Lenz, Christian (1989). "Keith Andrews (1920-1989)". Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte. 52 (2): 298–299. JSTOR 1482487.
  11. ^ a b c d C D Waterston; A Macmillan Shearer (July 2006). Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J) (PDF). RSE Scotland Foundation. ISBN 090219884X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2015. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  12. ^ Tate Gallery (1988). "Cecil Court, London W.C.2. (The Refugees)". The Tate Gallery 1984-86: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions Including Supplement to Catalogue of Acquisitions 1982-84. London: Tate Gallery. pp. 196–199. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
  13. ^ Cecil Court (2014). "A History of Cecil Court". Cecil Court. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
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