Ferdinand Stuttmann (art historian)

Ferdinand Stuttmann (born October 23, 1897 in Rüsselsheim , † June 2, 1968 in Hanover ) was a German art historian .

Life

Stuttmann studied art history in Heidelberg, Munich and Frankfurt. In 1922 (date of the doctoral certificate March 1, 1924) he received his doctorate from the University of Frankfurt under Rudolf Kautzsch with a thesis "Medieval wall painting in the Middle Rhine region". In 1922 he began working at the State Museum in Hanover . Stuttmann had been a member of the NSDAP since May 1, 1933 and worked as an expert at the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts for art collections confiscated in Hanover. From 1937 he was director of the art history department, the Landesgalerie. From July 1, 1938 to 1945, during the dismissal of the museum director Carl Küthmann , he was also director of the Kestner Museum . During the Second World War he took care of the relocation of the holdings of both museums.

After a short break he was able to resume his service after the denazification and played a key role in the reconstruction of the State Museum and in particular in the expansion of its modern collection. From 1952 until his retirement in 1962 he was director of the state museum. From 1949 he acquired numerous objects from the Conrad Doebbeke collection for his museum, fully aware that these pieces came from formerly Jewish collections.

literature

• Karl Wiechert: Ferdinand Stuttmann in memory. In: Low German contributions to art history. 7, 1968, pp. 8-10.
• Irmgard Woldering: Ferdinand Stuttmann October 23, 1897 - June 2, 1968. In: Museum Studies. 37, 1968, pp. 126-128.
• Ines Katenhusen : 150 years of the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover . In: Heide Grape-Albers (ed.): The Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover 2002. 150 years of the museum in Hanover, 100 years of the building at the Maschpark. Festschrift for the year of the double anniversary . Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover 2002, ISBN 3-929444-29-1 , pp. 18–94 especially pp. 78–85 Fig. 68.
• Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , pp. 354-355.
• Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) A. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 612.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ferdinand Stuttmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dictionary of Art Historians
• Ferdinand Stuttmann on "Robbery and Restitution"
• Claudia Andratschke: Provenance research at the Landesmuseum Hannover. (PDF; 16 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marko Jelusić: A haven for world-famous art. Bad Wildungen as a salvage depot for the State Museum and the Kestner Museum Hannover during the Second World War . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter 65, 2011, pp. 111-134 ( digitized version ).