Anton Ress

Anton Ress (born February 20, 1913 in Aschaffenburg , † May 26, 1972 in Bamberg ) was a German art historian and monument conservator .

Anton Ress studied art history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and received his doctorate in 1947 under Hans Jantzen with a thesis on the baroque sculptor Giovanni Maria Morlaiter . In 1949 he became a volunteer at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation , then he worked at the art collections of the city of Düsseldorf . From 1951 he worked again at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation in Munich, where he worked for the inventory of art monuments . In 1960 he was appointed curator, from 1961 he was responsible as district curator for Lower Franconia , in 1963 he became chief curator . In 1970 he was appointed state curator and head of the department for inventory of art monuments, but remained responsible for Lower Franconia. He died of the consequences of a car accident on a business trip.

Ress wrote the inventory of monuments for the church buildings of Rothenburg ob der Tauber and the city of Nuremberg . In addition, his research areas included baroque sculpture and the history of glass.

His daughter Saskia Durian-Ress (* 1943) also became an art historian.

Publications (selection)

• Bernhard Sopher (1879–1949) memorial exhibition; November 11th - 31st Dec 1951 . Art collections of the city of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1951.
• St. Jakob, Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church (= Small Art Guide . Volume 669). Schnell & Steiner, Munich / Zurich 1958.
• City of Rothenburg od T. Church buildings (= The art monuments of Bavaria . Administrative region Middle Franconia. Volume 8). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959.
• with Günter P. Fehring : The city of Nuremberg. Brief inventory. (= Bayerische Kunstdenkmale Vol. 10), Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1961 (2nd edited by Wilhelm Schwemmer. Edition 1977 ISBN 3-422-00550-1 )
• Church of Our Lady, Aschaffenburg (= Little Art Guide. Volume 915). Schnell & Steiner, Munich / Zurich 1969.
• Giovanni Maria Morlaiter. An 18th century Venetian sculptor . With additions by Saskia Durian-Ress (= German Study Center Venice. Studies. Volume 2). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-422-00692-3 (print of the dissertation from 1947).

literature

• Torsten Gebhard: Anton Ress . In: Deutsche Kunst und Denkmalpflege 30 (1972), pp. 151–152.
• Heinrich Kreisel: Anton Ress . In: Kunstchronik 25 (1972), pp. 287–288.
• Egon Johannes Greipl (Ed.): 100 Years of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation 1908–2008 4 volumes, Pustet, Regensburg 2008, ISBN 3-7917-2119-4 , Vol. 1, p. 342 (short biography with picture); Vol. 4, p. 192 (bibliography).

Web links

• Literature by and about Anton Ress in the catalog of the German National Library