Adolf Geßner (art historian)

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Adolf Geßner (born December 31, 1909 in Bingen ; † March 13, 1988 in Wiesbaden ) was a German art historian and entrepreneur .

Life

Adolf Geßner was born in 1909 as the child of the Bingen businessman Karl Geßner and his wife Eva, née Rumpf. Geßner attended today's Stefan-George-Gymnasium , then a humanistic gymnasium in his city, which he left in 1928 when he obtained his university entrance qualification . Already during his school days Geßner showed a great interest in art history. Geßner studied art history, archeology, history and German in Freiburg im Breisgau , Munich , Paris , Berlin , Bonn and Frankfurt . In 1935 he received his doctorate in philosophy with a dissertation on "The Development of the Gothic Capital in Southwest and West Germany".

After the Second World War he became an entrepreneur and joined the Mainz publishing house and printing company Will & Rothe as a co-partner.

Adolf Geßner was buried in his birthplace Bingen am Rhein.

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Adolf Geßner wrote fundamental studies on Johann Melchior Austria, an Upper Silesian sculptor from Ratibor of the 18th century. In the small font series “Das Meisterwerk” published by Gustav Weise Verlag in Berlin, he introduced numerous sculptors and painters from the 16th to 18th centuries.

Fonts

  • The development of the Gothic capital in south-west and west Germany in the 13th century . Triltsch, Würzburg 1935.
  • News about the work of Johann Melchior Austria . In: Der Oberschlesier , vol. 21 (1939), p. 168 ff.
  • Johann Melchior Austria. An Upper Silesian sculptor of the 18th century and his circle . In: Journal of the German Association for Art History, Volume 7 (1940), Issue 2/3, pp. 131–151.
  • Some lesser known sculptures from the 14th century in the Rheingau . In: Yearbook for the Diocese of Mainz , Vol. 2 (1947), pp. 242–250.
  • The epitaph of Philipp Erwin von Schönborn. A contribution to Rauchmüller research . In: Yearbook for the Diocese of Mainz , Volume 3 (1948), pp. 75–88.
  • Remarks from topography and iconography on Matthias Rauchmüller's Schönborn epitaph . In: Yearbook for the Diocese of Mainz , Volume 4 (1949), pp. 339–345.
  • An unknown youth work by Matthias Rauchmüller . In: Zeitschrift für Kunstwissenschaft , Vol. 3 (1949), Issue 1, pp. 32–36.
  • The Johannisberger lectern . In: Yearbook for the Diocese of Mainz . In: Yearbook for the Diocese of Mainz , vol. 4 (1949), p. 416.
  • Traditions in the west choir of the Mainz Cathedral . In: Mainzer Kalender , born in 1950, Mainz 1949, pp. 40–43.
  • The stalls in the west choir of the Mainz Cathedral . Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1950 (= supplementary volumes to the yearbook for the diocese of Mainz , vol. 1).
  • Rauden Abbey in Upper Silesia. Holzner-Verlag, Kitzingen 1952 (= sources and representations on Silesian history , vol. 2).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Heiduk : Adolf Geßner (1909–1988) - first biographical note . In: Schlesischer Kulturspiegel , vol. 38 (2003), p. 62.
personal data
SURNAME Geßner, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Bingen
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1988
Place of death Wiesbaden