Harald Seiler

Harald Seiler (born July 16, 1910 in Bielefeld , † February 19, 1976 in Palma ) was a German art historian and museum director .

Life

Harald Seiler studied art history , German literature and history in Leipzig , Munich , Vienna and Münster . In 1937 he was at the University of Münster with the work The beginnings of the art care in Westphalia doctorate .

In the same year, Seiler first became a volunteer and later a research assistant at the State Museum for Art and Cultural History in Münster, interrupted by military service from 1941 to 1945. In 1952 he took over the management of the Municipal Museum in Wuppertal .

From 1962 until his retirement in August 1975, Harald Seiler was director of the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover . The department for modern art begun by Ferdinand Stuttmann was expanded under his leadership . So work was, for example, Pablo Picasso and Kurt Schwitters bought, the Max Beckmann expanded Imagery, a sculpture set -Halle and - on the initiative of Lydia Dorner, the widow of Alexander Dorner - that of El Lissitzky designed and from the Nazis destroyed Abstract Cabinet reconstructed.

Harald Seiler initiated the series Low German Contributions to Art History , which he also edited, and published in particular on art and artists of the 20th century, such as Paula Modersohn-Becker , Franz Marc , Grethe Jürgens and Kurt Schwitters . These and similar artists were also the subject of his numerous lecture events.

In 1972 Seiler was awarded the Loyalty Certificate of the State of Lower Saxony .

Tomb

Harald Seiler's grave can be found at the Engesohde city cemetery in Hanover, Department 18 , grave number 80 .

Fonts (selection)

• Grethe Jürgens (= Lower Saxony contemporary artists, vol. 14). Göttingen, Berlin, Frankfurt [Main], Zurich: Musterschmidt, 1976
• Théo Kerg , with 4 signed and numbered graphics, Schwarzenacker (Saar): Beck, 1972
• Adolph Menzel. Paintings and drawings , catalog for the exhibition in the Old Town Hall in Erlangen from October 31 to November 30, 1971, (Georg Schäfer Collection, Schweinfurt) Erlangen: City of Erlangen, 1971
• Lower Saxony State Gallery Hanover , ed. by Kunstfreunde Hannover eV, Cologne: DuMont-Schauberg, 1969
• (Ed.): 12 pictures from the Lower Saxony State Gallery in Hanover , Hanover: Lower Saxony State Gallery [1966]
• The Von der Heydt Museum of the City of Wuppertal , ed. from the city of Wuppertal, 1964
• Kurt Schwippert (= monographs on Rhenish-Westphalian contemporary art, vol. 26). Recklinghausen: Bongers, 1964
• with Martin Gosebruch , Klaus Lazarowicz: Access to Ernst Barlach. Introduction to his artistic and poetic work , Evangelisches Forum , Heft 1, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1961
• New German art: watercolors, gouaches, drawings , exhibition catalog for the exhibition in Baghdad. German Art Council , Cologne 1958
• Jean-Paul Riopelle 1947–1957 / paintings, gouache, watercolors / French watercolors , catalog for the exhibition from February 16 to March 16, 1958 in the Städtisches Museum Wuppertal, Wuppertal: Kunst- u. Museum Association, 1958
• Paula Modersohn-Becker , Munich: Bruckmann, 1959
• Franz Marc , Munich: Bruckmann, 1956
• Wilhelm Morgner (= monographs on Rhenish-Westphalian contemporary art, Vol. 3). Cologne: Seemann, 1956 (new edition 1958)
• (Ed.): Jankel Adler 1895–1949. Exhibition June 1955 , exhibition catalog, Wuppertal Art and Museum Association, Wuppertal: Städtisches Museum, 1955
• Westphalian Art Exhibition , Exhibition Catalog, State Museum for Art and Cultural History and Westfälischer Kunstverein, 1952
• with Paul Pieper: Christian Rohlfs. 1849 , exhibition catalog, commemorative exhibition from July 24 to August 28, 1949, Münster: State Museum for Art and Cultural History, 1949
• Münster, the old town , Münster: Aschendorff, 1948. 8th edition 1986
• The beginnings of art care in Westphalia (contribution to the essence research of the Biedermeier) (= Westphalia , special issue 4). Münster: University bookstore Coppenrath, 1937 (dissertation)

literature

• 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. 85–87 Fig. 69.
• Hugo Thielen : Seiler, Harald , in: 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 , p. 331.
• Hugo Thielen: Seiler, Harald. In: Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 562.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Hugo Thielen : Seiler, Harald , in: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen (ed.): Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. From the beginning to the present . Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 331.
2. ^ Ines Katenhusen: Cabinet of the abstract. In: Klaus Mlynek, Dirk Böttcher (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Hannover. From the beginning to the present . Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 332.
3. ^ Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Cabinet of Abstracts , in: Hannover Chronik . Hanover 1991, p. 179 et al.
4. ↑ Karin van Schwartzenberg (responsible): Graves of honor and graves of important personalities at the Engesohde town cemetery , A3 leaflet with overview sketch, ed. from the City of Hanover, The Lord Mayor, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Department of Urban Cemeteries, Department of Administration and Customer Service, Hannover 2012.

predecessor	Office	successor
Victor Dirksen	Director of the Wuppertal Municipal Museum (today: Von der Heydt Museum) 1953–1962	Günter Aust