Adolf Feulner

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Adolf Feulner (born August 23, 1884 in Schwabhausen near Dachau , † August 21, 1945 in Wiesentheid ) was a German art historian with a focus on the Baroque and Rococo .

Life

Adolf Feulner, son of a primary school teacher, received his doctorate from the University of Munich in 1910 . From 1909 he worked as an assistant at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . As a lieutenant he was deployed in the protection of art during the First World War .

Feulner had been a curator at the Munich Residence Museum from 1919 , where he was promoted to chief curator in 1923. From 1930 he was director of the Kunstgewerbemuseum and the Historical Museum in Frankfurt am Main . In 1937 he was appointed general director of the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the City of Cologne to Cologne and from 1940 taught part-time as a professor at the University of Cologne .

Feulner, specializing in Bavarian Rococo and furniture history, also published on Frankfurt's art and applied art. He was editor of the series German Art Guides in the Dr. Benno Filser Verlag in Augsburg. His late work shows National Socialist influences.

Publications (selection)

  • Church baroque painting in Bavaria. 1910. Munich dissertation
  • Ignaz Günther , Bavarian court sculptor (1725–1775) . Austrian State Printing Office, Vienna 1920.
  • Bavarian Rococo . Kurt Wolff 1923.
  • Munich baroque sculpture ; Edited volumes on the history of art and applied arts. Riehn and Reusch, book and art publisher, Munich 1922.
  • The German sculpture of the 16th century . Kurt Wolff, Munich 1926.
  • The German sculpture of the seventeenth century . H. Schmidt 1926.
  • Art history of furniture since ancient times . Propylaea, 1927.
  • OO Kurz and E. Herbert . (= Neue Werkkunst ) FE Hübsch Verlag, Berlin 1927.
  • Sculpture and painting of the 18th century in Germany . Athenaion Academic Publishing Company, 1929.
  • Frankfurt faience German Association for Art History, Berlin 1935.
  • Art and History, a guide to thinking about art history . Hiersemann 1942.
  • Ignaz Günther. The great sculptor of the Bavarian Rococo. Münchener Verlag (formerly F. Bruckmann), Munich 1947.

literature

  • Tanja Baensch: Adolf Feulner (1884–1945) . In: Uwe Fleckner, Max Hollein (ed.): Museum in contradiction. The Städel and National Socialism . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2011, p. 345.

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personal data
SURNAME Feulner, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feulner, Adolphe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 23 August 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwabhausen (Upper Bavaria)
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1945
Place of death Wiesentheid