Alfred Kamphausen

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Kamphausen (right) and the publisher Axel Springer (left) were awarded the Fritz Schumacher Gold Medal by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS in December 1974 for their commitment to the preservation of monuments and the preservation of cultural assets. Emmele Toepfer (1897–1985, center) presented the award.

Alfred Kamphausen (born March 31, 1906 in Rheydt ; † November 11, 1982 in Kiel ) was a German art historian , museum director and university professor who taught at Kiel University .

Life

The from the Rhineland native Kamphausen studied at several universities, including in Cologne , Berlin and Munich mainly art history and received his doctorate in 1929 at the University of Bonn with the award summa cum laude . His dissertation was published in 1931 under the title “The Lower Rhine Sculpture in the 16th Century with Special Consideration of the Conditions in Xanten” and under the title “The Lower Rhine Sculpture in the 16th Century and the Images of the Xanten Cathedral” in Düsseldorf .

In 1931 Kamphausen became director of the Dithmarscher State Museum in Meldorf . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Kamphausen joined the NSDAP in May 1933 . Links arose from his commitment to local history and folk art: Kamphausen was head of the working group of local museums in Schleswig-Holstein and from 1935 Schleswig-Holstein museum curator. In addition, he was responsible for traditional costumes in the Reichsbund für Volkstum und Heimat and held the position of lecturer for folk culture in the Kampfbund for German culture .

After the Second World War , Kamphausen, who had completed his habilitation under Richard Sedlmaier in 1938 , became a private lecturer in 1946 and then in 1953 an adjunct professor at the University of Kiel. In 1961 he gave up the position of director of the Dithmarscher Landesmuseum and, as director, organized the reconstruction of the Schleswig-Holstein open-air museum . He worked as professor and museum director until 1977 and 1978 respectively. In 1976 he was awarded the City of Kiel's Culture Prize.

Kamphausen has worked as a writer throughout his career and was also co-editor of the Nordelbingen magazine . Kamphausen died on November 11, 1982 in Kiel.

Act

Alfred Kamphausen played an important role in historical research on northern German art. Even if his interest and his research covered a wide spectrum and also touched France and the East, his focus and main point of reference were always the northern European area and especially northern Germany .

Many of his writings and works deal with local history , folk art and regional studies of Friesland and Schleswig-Holstein .

The entrepreneurial and committed Kamphausen was not only interested in researching art, but also in conveying what his museum work could do well. In his teaching, the students' encounter with art itself, “with the works on site” was a particular concern for him, for which he organized numerous trips, including B. in collaboration with the art historian Wolfgang Müller .

Awards

Fonts

  • The Lower Rhine sculpture in the 16th century and the sculptures of the Xanten Cathedral. An attempt at evolutionary history. Strucken, Düsseldorf 1931.
  • Lower Rhine sculpture in the 16th century. With special consideration of the conditions in Xanten. An attempt at evolutionary history. Strucken, Düsseldorf 1931 (Bonn, University, phil. Dissertation, 1931).
  • The cathedral of the Dithmarscher, the church of Meldorf , Strucken, Düsseldorf 1931 .
  • Schleswig-Holstein architecture, its history and its way , Bergas, Schleswig 1936 .
  • The architectural monuments of the German colonization in Ostholstein and the beginnings of northern European brick architecture (= studies of Schleswig-Holstein art history. Vol. 3, ISSN  0585-6191 ). Wachholtz, Neumünster 1938.
  • Asmus Jakob Carstens (= Studies on Schleswig-Holstein Art History. Vol. 5). Wachholtz, Neumünster 1941.
  • The space in German art , Wachholtz, Neumünster 1949.
  • Gothic without god. A contribution to the interpretation of neo-Gothic and the 19th century. Matthiesen, Tübingen 1952.
  • The churches of Schleswig-Holstein , Bernaerts, Schleswig 1955.
  • German and Scandinavian art. Encounter and change. Bernaerts, Schleswig 1956.
  • Duchy of Lauenburg (= German Land - German Art . ). Recordings by Willi Birker. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich ao 1959.
  • with Hans Philipp: North Friesland. Landscape and buildings from the Eider to the Wiedau. Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens, Heide in Holstein 1959 (5th edition 1981).
  • Woe to when let go. The fire disasters in d. Fine arts, Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens, Heide 1959.
  • The Schleswig-Holstein open-air museum. Houses and house stories (= reports from the Schleswig-Holstein open-air museum. H. 3, ISSN  0722-2610 ). Wachholtz, Neumünster 1965 (11th edition 1986).
  • Schleswig Holstein. Land of the coast; Landscape, history, culture, art, Glock & Lutz, Nuremberg 1968 (2nd edition 1977).
  • Schleswig-Holstein cities then and now , Mühlau, Kiel 1970.
  • Peasant painting in Schleswig-Holstein. West Holstein Publishing House Boyens, Heide in Holstein 1971.
  • The master builder Fritz Hoeger , Wachholtz, Neumünster 1972 (Studies on Schleswig-Holstein Art History, Volume 12).
  • Schleswig-Holstein as an art landscape. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1973, ISBN 3-529-02631-X .
  • Many roofs under one. On the history of the Schleswig-Holstein open-air museum. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1975, ISBN 3-529-07203-6 .
  • Under old thatched roofs. Christians, Hamburg 1976, ISBN 3-7672-0416-9 .
  • Brick Gothic (= Heyne books. 13). Heyne, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-453-41254-0 .
  • The Ratzeburg Cathedral , 3rd edition, Boyens, Heide 1978, ISBN 3-8042-0108-3 .
  • Farmhouse parlors from all corners and coasts of Schleswig-Holstein. Examples from the Schleswig-Holstein open-air museum. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979, ISBN 3-529-02654-9 .
  • Beautiful villages in Schleswig-Holstein. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979, ISBN 3-529-02657-3 .4
  • Denmark. A guide , Prestel, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7913-0504-2 .
  • From seeing to looking. Twelve essays on known and unfamiliar images. Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens, Heide in Holstein 1981, ISBN 3-8042-0248-9 .
  • Houses that were home. Mühlau, Kiel 1982, ISBN 3-87559-044-9 .
  • Norway. A guide , Prestel, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7913-0623-5 .

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Christine Kratzke: Alfred Kamphausen (1906–1982). “Heimat” and “Volkstum” - categories of art history? In: Hans-Dieter Nägelke (ed.): Art history in Kiel. 100 years of the Art History Institute of the Christian Albrechts University. 1893-1993. Rectorate of Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel 1994, ISBN 3-928794-11-6 , pp. 74-78.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 298.
personal data
SURNAME Kamphausen, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, museum director and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheydt
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1982
Place of death Kiel