Alfred Rohde (art historian)

Alfred Rohde

Alfred Rohde (born January 24, 1892 in Hamburg , † December 7, 1945 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German art historian in Hamburg and Königsberg.

Life

Alfred Rohde studied art history at the Philipps University in Marburg , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1916 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . In the Weimar Republic he worked under Max Sauerlandt as curator at the Museum of Art and Commerce in Hamburg . The administration of the State Palaces and Gardens in Prussia appointed him director of the municipal art collections in the south wing of Königsberg Palace on October 1, 1927 . Immediately after taking office, Rohde combined the collections of the three departments into a museum . In April 1928 he was able to reopen the permanent exhibition that was temporarily closed for this purpose. A "sharp inspection of the holdings" solely on the qualitative significance should bring the exhibits supraregional recognition throughout Germany. He therefore left works of predominantly local value to the City History Museum (Königsberg), also opened in 1928 . A study collection was created for the pieces from the former Kunstgewerbemuseum that were not on display, and a picture magazine was created for the paintings that were not hung. The rooms were probably at the eastern end of the first floor of the south wing, where Rohde's office and his secretary's room were. From 1932 he sat on the board of directors of the Königsberger Kunstverein as secretary .

Rohde was particularly interested in amber , about which he wrote two books. As the Red Army approached, Rohde began protective measures for the art collections in July 1944. He had part of it spent in Wildenhoff Castle . He suffered from Parkinson's disease and stayed with his wife in his apartment (Beeckstrasse 1) during the battle for Koenigsberg . At the age of 53 he died in the Königsberg disease hospital on Yorckstrasse. Nobody knew more about the Amber Room than he did.

Publications

In Hamburg

Museum of Arts and Crafts

• The art museum of the elder Peter Friedrich Röding and its auction in 1847. A contribution to the history of public and private collecting in Hamburg . Cicerone 1920, pp. 717-725, 783-788.
• with Adolf Brüning : Blacksmithing up to the end of the 18th century (= Monographs of Applied Arts 3). 2nd expanded edition, Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1922.
• The history of scientific instruments from the beginning of the Renaissance to the end of the 18th century . Leipzig 1923.
• Hamburg instrument makers of the 17th and 18th centuries . Flensburg 1923.
• German arts and crafts of the baroque period , 1: Hamburg arts and crafts (Guide MKG). Hamburg 1924
• German arts and crafts of the baroque period , 2: Central and South German arts and crafts (Guide MKG). Hamburg 1925.
• Passion picture and passion covenants. Interrelationships between painting and poetry in the late German Middle Ages . Berlin 1926–1930.
• Applied Art Problems . Hamburg 1926.
• Hamburg art of the present . Hamburg 1927.

In Koenigsberg

South wing of the Königsberg Castle

• For the opening of the easternmost German art collections in Königsberg Castle . Koenigsberg, 1928.
• The silver library of Duke Albrecht in Koenigsberg . Koenigsberg 1928
• Königsberg Pr. (With 101 illustrations). Leipzig 1929
• East Prussia's romantics . Koenigsberg 1932.
• Amber, a German material. Its artistic processing from the Middle Ages to the 18th century . Berlin 1937.
• Königsberg painter in the age of Simon Dach . Koenigsberg 1938
• East Prussian painters of the Biedermeier period . Koenigsberg 1940.
• The book of amber . Koenigsberg 1941.
• The castle in Königsberg (Pr.) And its collections , 1933; 5th edition, Berlin 1942.
• The young Corinth . Berlin 1941.
• The amber room of Frederick I in Königsberg Castle . Koenigsberg 1942.
• edited posthumously by Ulla Stöver; Essay by Fritz Gause : Goldsmithing in Königsberg . Stuttgart 1959.
• posthumously with Ulla Stöver and Günther Grundmann: Architectural and art monuments of the German East . Stuttgart 1959.

Catalogs

• Hand drawings from the possession of His Highness Alexander Prince zu Dohna-Schlebitten (German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch) , 1928.
• Art collections of the city of Königsberg. A tour of the exhibition collections , 1928, 1931.
• Erich Heckel - paintings, watercolors, drawings, graphics , 1928, Städtisches Museum / Kunstverein Königsberg Pr.
• 61st art exhibition to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Kunstverein Königsberg Pr. EV
• The reading room of the art collections of the city of Königsberg Pr. Königsberg 1929.
• Artistic-cultural department , 1931.
• Painting catalog , 1934.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Wulf D. Wagner , Heinrich Lange: The Königsberg Castle . Vol. 2, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7954-1953-0 , p. 404 ff.
2. ↑ Dissertation: The Hamburg Petri (Grabower) Altar and Master Bertram von Minden. A contribution to the art history of Hamburg .
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Günther Haase: Art theft and art protection , Vol. 1: A documentation. 2008
4. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, p.?.
5. ^ Hartwig Jürgen Niemann: Amber Room or Amber Cabinet. In search of the truth. epubli, Berlin 2012 .
6. ↑ The book contains a photograph of the lost Albertus seal