부산대학교 도서관

(b Bremen, Feb 17, 1868; d Ballenstedt, Dec 30, 1952). German art historian. A contemporary of Emile Mâle and Bernard Berenson, his relative obscurity compared to other art historians of his generation has been explained by his early and complete retirement from public life and the difficulties of translating his writings, which are both densely written and poetically sensitive. When he was 18 he wrote, ‘How one descends to the sources … is the secret of all scientific history’; his approach was to remain that of a scientist, making an objective study of his subject from all points of view. Vöge graduated from Leipzig University in 1886 and began work on his doctorate at Bonn in 1887, bringing together a group of Ottonian manuscripts and for the first time propounding a study of them as ‘a body of material and sketches serving the transmission of motifs’. Turning to the study of sculpture after visiting Strasbourg he published his study of the west portal (the ...