Angelo Walther

Angelo Walther (born November 6, 1928 in Burkhardtsdorf ) is a German art historian and curator of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister .

Life

Walther comes from the Saxon Ore Mountains , where he was born as the son of the academic painter Richard Walther in Burkhardtsdorf, south of Chemnitz . From 1937 to 1947 he attended secondary school, then he worked as a new teacher until 1953. He then began studying art history and archeology at the Universities of Rostock and Leipzig, which he completed with a diploma in 1957. At the same time he passed the state examination for high school art educators.

After spending a year at the municipal art collections in Görlitz , he went to the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden as curator, where he was most recently deputy director responsible for the Italian paintings. His volume on the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden saw numerous editions and was translated into several foreign languages.

In 1993 Angelo Walther retired from active professional life, but remained active as a book author.

In 1961 Angelo Walther received his doctorate on August Gaul .

Fonts (selection)

• Italian Masters of the Early Renaissance and the Sistine Madonna by Raphael , Dresden [19] 62
• Venetian painting in the Dresden Gemäldegalerie , Leipzig 1965
• Angelo Walther:  Gaul, Georg August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 98 ( digitized version ).
• Angelo Walther: August Gaul. Artist Compendium. EA Seemann , Leipzig 1973. With 262 illustrations, 136 of which are sculptures.
• Karl Kröner. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden, 1974 (painter and work series)
• Giorgione. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1979
• Gemäldegalerie Dresden - Old Masters. Catalog of the exhibited works Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Dresden) , 9., revised. u. supplementary edition, Leipzig 1992
• Of gods, nymphs and heroes. The myths of antiquity in the fine arts , Leipzig 1993
• Bernardo Bellotto called Canaletto. A Venetian painted Dresden, Pirna and the Königstein , Dresden 1995
• The myths of antiquity in the fine arts , Düsseldorf 2003
• Raffael - The Sistine Madonna , 2nd revised edition, Leipzig 2004
• Bernardo Bellotto called Canaletto: a Venetian painted Dresden, Pirna and the Königstein . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 2006, 4th edition, ISBN 978-3-86530-004-1 .

Awards

• 1988 Martin Andersen Nexö Art Prize

literature

• Manfred Bachmann : Dr. Angelo Walther, Dresden on his 70th birthday . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 44, 1998, H. 6, P. 402.

Web links

• Literature by and about Angelo Walter in the Saxon Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Galuchens Zoo