Max Stern's Notes in his University Textbook

N5300 G57 1923 Rare Book Division Max Stern Collection

The basic university textbook for the history of art used by Max Stern was Friedrich Goeler von Ravensburg, Grundriss der Kunstgeschichte: Handbuch für Studierende, edited by Max Schmid-Burgk, completed and continued up to the present by Adolf Zeller. 4th rev. ed., 2 v. (Stuttgart: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, [1923-1926?]). It provides an outline of the history of art from prehistoric art, through the ancient, classical antiquity, medieval, Baroque periods, down to the early 20th century. It covers both art and architecture. Each chapter is by a specialist in the field. There are no illustrations.
Max had his two-volume set rebound in four volumes with interleaved graph paper. Here he added his own notes from lectures and reading, including rough sketches of the works of art and architecture under discussion. His notes are in tiny Old German script (which stopped being used before World War II) and barely decipherable. They clearly include material not from the book, mentioning names of other authors and professors.

In v. 2, opposite p. 192, which is about early Christian church architecture and the basilica, Max Stern wrote (ellipses refer to illegible text):

Stryzgowsky [sic] Asien ein Neuland d. Kunstgesch. 1903
…in der Orients…
Die Baukunst der Armenier u. Europa 1918
Urspr. der christl. Kirchenkst.
Kri… d. Geisteswissenschaft
Clemen
Ornament Über…sen
Clemen sagt nichts wandert so wie O.
Abhängigkeit ist nur dann wenn die Gesinnung
der Geist übergesprungen ist.

Bewispiel für Roms Bedeutung ist das römische
Recht. das heute noch Geltung hat.

Wulff im Kunstblatt? Wertheim [Westheim?]
________________________________________

Opus francigenum Hugo Graf
zu Seite 206
Irische Kunst
Ist eine urseltene? Kunst auf einer Oase die die Kunst? Nord?
Wurzel? erhalten hat.
Rudwell?kreutz

Stil

Orient und Rom
Orient auf Konstantinopel auf Griechisches neben Römischen
(Vehicel d. Kultur gleiches Recht)
Montsignore [sic] Wilpert / will nur Italisch-Römisch Einfluß / .. mus? noch früh eigensinning?
Strygowsky [sic]/ Vorkämpfer für Orient

Clemen
Orient und Rom
der eigentliche
Stamm ist die provinzielrömische [sic] Kunst

Historische Quellen
594 † Gregor von Tour [sic] hat uns über Bauten, die damals
errichtet wurden in einem eigenen Stil
Maxentius Poitier [sic]
Hl. Martin in Tours (Umgang im Chor, Verbind. von Lang u. Cen-
tralhausbau)

Italien

[cont'd]

Translation of and comments on Stern's notes opposite p. 192, v. 2 (ellipses refer to illegible text):

(As Stern's notes are not on the text on the facing page and do not name the authors of this chapter, they must be notes on lectures and reading.

Josef Strzygowski, whose name is misspelled here and below, is at the top with a list of his writings. The first should be Kleinasien, ein Neuland der Kunstgeschichte. He was Stern's professor in Vienna and head of the Kunsthistorisches Institut of the university. His research took a new direction in that he sought the sources for early Christian art in the east, not in Rome as did his colleagues. His book on Armenian architecture is still a pioneering study.

Paul Clemen was Stern's professor in Bonn and his dissertation supervisor there.)

Clemen says nothing wanders like o[rnament? Oriental?].
Dependence only comes about when the way of thinking,
the spirit, has [also] jumped over [i.e. spread].
An example of Rome's importance is Roman
law, which is still valid today.

Wulff [is noted with a reference to an article]

Hugo Graf. Opus francigenum: [Studie zur Frage nach dem Ursprunge der Gothik. Stuttgart: Wittwer, 1878. This book is about the origins of the Gothic style.]

to page 206
Irish art
Is a very rare art on an oasis that …
has preserved.
Rudwell? Cross
[the beginning of a sketch of the cross?]
Style
Orient and Rome
Orient on Constantinople on Greek besides Roman
(vehicle of culture [is having] the same law.)
Montsignore (sic) Wilpert / wants only Italic-Roman influence / …
Strygowsky (sic) / champion of Orient [i.e. Oriental influence]

Clemen Orient and Rome [Orient or Rome is the title of a book by Strzygowski]
The actual
root is the provincial Roman [style of] art
Historical Sources
594† Gregory of Tour[s] has [told] us about buildings that were built at the time
in a very own style
Maxentius Poitier[s]
St. Martin in Tours (ambulatory in the choir, combination of rectangular oblong [basilica] and central plan in architecture)

Italy
[cont'd]

Max Stern's notes facing p. 213, v. 2:

These notes include drawings of examples of early medieval church architecture. Inscriptions mention Aachen, S. Vitale in Ravenna, Schwarzrheindorf, the Holy Sepulchre in Fulda, S. Giovanni (spelled Jovanni) in Laterano, S. Constanza (sic), Stefano Ro., Germigny-des-Prés (spelled Germiniy de Pree), St. Gallen, Centula, and St. Pantaleon.