Albert Brinckmann

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Albert Gideon Brinckmann (born September 13, 1877 in Hamburg , † February 2, 1924 in Berlin ) was a German art historian .

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Albert Brinckmann was the son of the director of the Hamburg Museum of Art and Crafts Justus Brinckmann (1843–1915) and his second wife Maria Pia Adele von Froschauer (1848–1899). He has been blind in one eye since his youth. After studying art history, classical archeology and history in Bonn, Munich, Berlin and Heidelberg from 1897 to 1902, he initially worked as a "scientific assistant" at various museums in Cologne and Berlin. In 1907 he received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg. From 1906 to 1909 he was assistant director at the Landesgewerbemuseum Stuttgart .

On April 1, 1909, Brinckmann became a scientific assistant at the Kestner Museum in Hanover under the director Wilhelm Behncke . On April 1, 1912, he was appointed museum director as his successor. On March 1, 1920 he resigned after long disputes with the former city director Heinrich Tramm about the direction of the museum. After leaving office, Brinckmann was not very successful in the Berlin art trade until his death. He died as early as 1924 as a result of a mental illness.

Brinckmann was particularly interested in contemporary art, which was particularly evident in the special exhibitions he and his assistant Paul Erich Küppers designed. This predilection for the modern, which also met with sympathy with other art lovers in Hanover, finally led to the foundation of the Kestner Society on June 10, 1916 .

Fonts

  • The practical significance of the ornamental engravings for the German early Renaissance. Heitz, Strasbourg 1907 (dissertation; digitized version ).

literature

  • Michael Reinbold: The scientific director of the museum . In: Ulrich Gehrig (Ed.): 100 Years of the Kestner Museum Hannover. 1889-1989 . Kestner-Museum, Hannover 1989, ISBN 3-924029-14-8 , pp. 34–66, esp. Pp. 41–44 (with picture).
  • Karin Orchard: »Art on a leash«. Albert Gideon Brinckmann and the Kestner Museum . In: Karin Orchard (Ed.): RevonnaH. Avant-garde art in Hanover 1912–1933. Snoeck, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-86442-225-6 , pp. 34–49 (with picture).

Remarks

  1. ^ Artistic advertising. (1915/16); Overview exhibition on Emil Nolde (1916); see. Michael Reinbold in: 100 Years of the Kestner Museum Hannover 1889–1889. Hanover 1989, p. 42.
personal data
SURNAME Brinckmann, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brinckmann, Albert Gideon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1924
Place of death Berlin