Gotthard Jedlicka

Gotthard Jedlicka (6 May 1899 – 9 November 1965) was a Swiss art historian and writer.

Biography Jedlicka was born on 6 May 1899 in Zürich. He studied art history in Zürich, Grenoble and Paris and became a teacher in a secondary school in Winterthur.

He earned a doctorate in 1928 and was promoted to professor in 1934. From 1939 to 1965 he was professor of art history at the University of Zurich. Besides, he was an editor of the magazine Galerie und Sammler and of the art book series of Scherz-Verlag. He was also an editor of the Swiss monthly magazine Werk. Moreover, he wrote several art books and monographies about artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec, Édouard Manet and Pieter Brueghel the Elder. His work is preserved by the Zentralbibliothek Zürich.

In 1951, Jedlicka became a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature.

He died on 9 November 1965 in Duisburg. He was buried at Enzenbühl Cemetery.

Works (selection) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Laupen, 1929 (dissertation, University of Zurich, Department of Philosophy I, 1929, 28 pages) Henri Matisse. Chronique du jour, Paris, 1930, (200 issues) Begegnungen. Künstlernovellen. Schwabe, Basel, 1933 Pieter Bruegel. Der Maler in seiner Zeit. Rentsch, Erlenbach, 1938 Edouard Manet. Rentsch, Erlenbach, 1941 Spanische Malerei. Atlantis Verlag, 1941 Zur schweizerischen Malerei der Gegenwart. Rentsch, Erlenbach, 1947 Pierre Bonnard. Ein Besuch. Rentsch, Erlenbach, 1949 Pariser Tagebuch. Suhrkamp (Bibliothek Suhrkamp 18), Frankfurt am Main, 1953 Anblick und Erlebnis. Bildbetrachtungen. Suhrkamp (Bibliothek Suhrkamp 29), Frankfurt am Main 1955 Die Matisse Kapelle in Vence. Rosenkranzkapelle der Dominikanerinnen. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 1955 Wege zum Kunstwerk. Begegnungen mit Kunst und Künstlern. Piper, Munich, 1960 Der Fauvismus. Büchergilde Gutenberg, Zürich, 1961 Max Gubler. Hrsg. von Friedel Jedlicka. Huber, Frauenfeld, 1970 Mit Henri Matisse in Paris 1931. Piet Meyer (Kleine Bibliothek 5), Basel 2008,