Marie Schuette

Marie Schuette (born October 8, 1878 in Sydney , † December 30, 1975 in Überlingen ) was a German art historian .

Marie Schuette was born in Australia as the daughter of a German doctor, and the family returned to Leipzig in 1885 . In Leipzig Käthe Windscheid attended high school courses and in 1898 passed the Abitur examination externally at the high school in Dresden-Neustadt. She then studied art history in Freiburg and Berlin and received her doctorate in 1903 under Heinrich Wölfflin in Berlin.

In 1904 she became the assistant of Paul Clemen , the provincial curator of the Rhine Province, in Bonn, in 1904 she was initially a trainee, then assistant at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Cologne under Otto von Falke . This was followed by a traineeship at the Kupferstichkabinett and the sculpture collection in Berlin, and in 1907 she became assistant director at the Grand Ducal Museums and at the Goethe National Museum in Weimar .

From 1910 until her retirement in 1943 she worked at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Leipzig. Here she worked as custodian and head of the textile collection and the library, until 1929 under the director Richard Graul . Marie Schuette earned merit here in particular in setting up the newly built Grassi Museum (built 1924–1929). It was scientifically significant primarily through its publications and exhibitions on embroidery and lace, which it established as an independent field of work and research for art history.

In December 1943 she lost her apartment in the bombing raid on Leipzig and left the city. In Vienna she initially worked for the preservation of monuments, and also worked for the textile collections in Basel, Zurich and St. Gallen. Around 1945 she moved to Switzerland in the Lugano area, but could not find permanent employment there. Around 1956 she worked at the Center International d'Etudes des Textiles Anciens Lyon. Finally, through Theodor Heuss , she received a German pension and had lived in Überlingen on Lake Constance since the 1960s. She published in the field of textile science into old age.

Publications (selection)

• The Swabian carved altar (= Studies on German Art History 91). Strasbourg 1907 (dissertation, digitized version ).
• Old tips . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1912, 4th edition 1963.
• Old lace (needle and bobbin lace). A guide for collectors and enthusiasts . Berlin 1913.
• Top manual . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1914, 4th edition 1929.
• Embroidered tapestries and blankets from the Middle Ages . Hiersemann, Leipzig 1927 and 1930.
• German tapestries . Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1938.
• Lace from the Renaissance to the Empire from the Helene Viehweg-Brockhaus collection . Leipzig 1939.

literature

• Ruth Grönwoldt: Marie Schuette . In: Kunstchronik 1976, pp. 356–359.
• Katharina Groth, Birgit Müller: Art history around 1900 - a comparison of professional careers: Marie Schuette, Walter Stengel, Hans Wendland and August Grisebach. In: Horst Bredekamp, ​​Adam S. Labuda (Ed.): In the middle of Berlin. 200 years of art history at the Humboldt University Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-7861-2630-0 , pp. 177–188, here pp. 180–181.

Web links

• Biography at the city of Leipzig