Rudolf von Arps-Aubert

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Rudolf von Arps-Aubert (born April 10, 1894 in Berlin , † late 1946 in Bautzen ) was a German art historian .

Life

Museum in Zwickau

Arps-Aubert was the son of a secret consistorial councilor who was ennobled in 1912 and grew up in a wealthy family. After attending school in Berlin-Lichterfelde , studying law and serving as a non-commissioned officer in World War I , he initially worked as a bank clerk. From 1929 he studied art history at the University of Halle and completed this course in 1931 with his doctorate. phil. from. The subject of his dissertation was the development of the animal image by the Dutch baroque painter Paulus Potter . From 1932 to 1936 he was a research assistant at the Green Vault in Dresden . His career in the cultural sector was actively promoted by the Security Service (SD) , of which he was an informant in Saxony . In 1936 he succeeded Sigfried Asche as director of the King Albert Museum in Zwickau . Even before the death of the seriously ill director of the Green Vault, Erich Haenel , he tried to succeed him in Dresden, as evidenced by his SD personnel file, and in this direction he received the full support of the SD. As a connoisseur of baroque furniture and a former employee in Dresden, he also seemed quite suitable for his network in the SD. However, Haenel's position in Dresden was not filled again after his death in 1940 during the Second World War . In 1945 von Arps-Aubert was dismissed as director in Zwickau. He died in late 1946 in the Soviet special camp No. 4 in Bautzen.

Fonts

  • The development of the pure animal image in the art of Paulus Potter , Halle (Saale) 1932.
  • Carl Gottlob Mittenzwey: a 19th century portrait painter from Zwickau; List of his works on the occasion of the exhibition in the König-Albert-Museum zu Zwickau from October 17 to November 21, 1937 , Zwickau 1937.
  • 25 years of the König-Albert-Museum, Zwickau District Museum, König-Albert-Museum, Zwickau 1939.
  • Saxon baroque furniture, 1700-1770 , German Association for Art History, Berlin 1939.

literature

  • Carsten Schreiber: Elite in secret. Ideology and regional domination practice of the SS security service and its network using the example of Saxony , Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2008, pp. 433–434 ( Google Books ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On his death: Margret Bechler : Waiting for an answer . Kindler-Verlag, Munich 1978
  2. ^ Prussian nobility August 13, 1912.
personal data
SURNAME Arps-Aubert, Rudolf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1946
Place of death Bautzen