Alfred Schubert (art historian)

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Alfred Schubert (born February 14, 1889 in Zittau , Kingdom of Saxony ; died 1965 ) was a German art historian .

Life

Schubert was the son of the architect and trade school teacher Alfred Schubert, who specializes in agricultural construction, and his wife Katharina (née Leonard). He first attended the royal high school in Kassel and passed his Abitur at the high school in Münstereifel . Starting in the summer semester of 1909, he studied for four semesters Classical Archeology and Art History at the University of Bonn under Georg Loeschke and Paul Clemen . He then traveled to Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland before studying at the University of Jena in 1912continued, in 1912/13 he was also a research assistant at the municipal museum in Jena. He completed his studies in 1915 with his doctoral thesis on the subject of Bruck bei Erlangen . A contribution to the art history of Franconia at the University of Erlangen . In 1917/18 he was a research assistant at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Düsseldorf . Schubert worked as a freelance art historian from 1919 to 1933. In 1933 he became a full-time museum curator at the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf . In June 1933 he founded the Gauarchiv of the NSDAP in Düsseldorf, which he took over. From 1933 to 1934 he was district culture warden in Düsseldorf.

He left behind an art collection, some of which were auctioned off in 2013.

Fonts (selection)

  • Bruck near Erlangen. A contribution to the art history of Franconia . Jacob, Erlangen 1915, p. 118 (inaugural dissertation with curriculum vitae).
  • A portrait of Hitler by Carl Aller. In: Düsseldorfer Volksparole. June 2, 1933.
  • Old folk art on the Lower Rhine . Bagel, Düsseldorf 1938, OCLC 218577288 .
  • Pappenheim'sche faience manufactory. In: Weltkunst. 33, No. 5, 1963, pp. 19-20.
  • A lost painting by Jodocus van Winghe discovered . In: Weltkunst . tape 34 , 1964, ISSN  0043-261X , OCLC 888160825 , p. 526 .

literature

  • HAL Degner: Who is it. Our contemporaries. 10th edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1935, p. 345.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Schubert: Bruck near Erlangen. A contribution to the art history of Franconia . Jacob, Erlangen 1915, p. 118 ( books.google.de - inaugural dissertation with curriculum vitae, only limited view).
  2. ↑ Stephan Laux: Between traditionalism and "economic science". The Düsseldorf History Association and the Rhenish History Associations in National Socialism. In: sheets for German national history. Volume 141/142, 2005/2006, pp. 107–157, here p. 132 Note 104 from HAL Degner: Wer ist's. Our contemporaries. 10th edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1935, p. 345 ( PDF uni-trier.de ).
  3. ↑ Collection of Dr. Alfred Schubert (1889–1965) Former curator at the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, today's Museum Kunstpalast. In: 321st auction of European applied arts, May 18, 2013. Van Ham, Cologne 2013, p. 93 ff. ( Van-ham.com PDF of the auction catalog).
personal data
SURNAME Schubert, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau
DATE OF DEATH 1965