Anton Legner

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Anton Legner (born August 28, 1928 in Gmünd-Wielands , South Bohemia , Czechoslovakia ) is a German art historian . For 20 years he was director of the Schnütgen Museum and author of numerous publications on Rhenish medieval art.

Life

Anton Legner was born the son of a hotelier and grew up in Prague . After participating in the war in 1943 and being captured by the French, he passed his Abitur in 1947 in Mühldorf am Inn . He studied art history and classical archeology, first at the philosophical-theological universities in Passau and Regensburg and from 1950 at the University of Freiburg , where he received his doctorate in 1954 under Kurt Bauch and worked as an assistant. He then worked as a research assistant at the Liebieghaus in Frankfurt . From 1970 to 1990 he was director of the Schnütgen Museum in Cologne . In 1980 he received the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 1991 the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .

His scientific specialty is the art of the Middle Ages . In Cologne he led a. a. the great medieval exhibitions “Rhine and Maas”, “Die Parler” and “Ornamenta Ecclesiae”.

Fonts (selection)

  • Salzburg and Passau sculpture at the time of Leinberger and the Danube school painter. Dissertation University of Freiburg im Breisgau, Philosophical Faculty, December 16, 1954.
  • Schnütgen Museum Cologne . Schnell & Steiner, Munich / Zurich 1971, ISBN 3-7954-0564-5 .
  • (Ed.) Ornamenta ecclesiae. Romanesque art and artists. Catalog for the exhibition of the Schnütgen Museum in the Josef Haubrich Kunsthalle. Exhibition catalog, three volumes. Greven & Bechtold, Cologne 1985, DNB 551200804 .
  • (Ed.): Relics. Adoration and transfiguration, sketches and notes on the subject and catalog for the exhibition of the Louis Peters collection in Cologne in the Schnütgen Museum . Schnütgen Museum, Cologne 1989.
  • Rhenish art and the Cologne Schnütgen Museum . Greven, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7743-0264-2 .
  • Romanesque art in Germany . Hirmer, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7774-7340-5 .
  • Cologne saints and shrines . Greven, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-7743-0335-5 .
  • The Artifex. Artists in the Middle Ages and their self-expression. An illustrated anthology . Greven, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7743-0420-8 .
  • Cologne reliquary culture: Voices of pilgrims, travelers and locals . Greven, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-7743-0613-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Legner, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Gmünd-Wielands , South Bohemia , Czechoslovakia