Arno Schoenberger
Arno Schönberger (born November 19, 1915 in Schönberg (Lower Bavaria) , † November 13, 1993 in Nuremberg ) was a German art historian .
Life
Arno Schönberger studied art history, classical archeology and philosophy at the University of Munich from 1936 and received his doctorate there in 1943. From 1945 he worked at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation and from 1948 at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich. As a curator he was a. a. Participated in the exhibitions: Ignaz Günther , Munich 1953, Rococo Art from Bavaria , London 1954, European Rococo, Exhibition of the Council of Europe , Munich 1958.
On September 1, 1959, he became director of the Kunstgewerbemuseum in West Berlin. Here he succeeded in reopening the museum's first permanent exhibition after the war on June 8, 1963 in the Knobelsdorff wing of Charlottenburg Palace . From 1969 until his retirement in 1980 he was General Director of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.
His daughter is the art historian Angela Schönberger (* 1945), who was director of the Berlin Museum of Applied Arts from 2000 to 2010.
Awards
In 1974 he received the Bavarian Order of Merit , in 1977 the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class and in 1980 the Theodor Heuss Medal of the Germanic National Museum .
literature
- Consider + preserve. A cross-section through the written work of Arno Schönberger , ed. by Irmingard Schönberger. Spätlese-Verlag, Nuremberg 1995, ISBN 3-924461-15-5 (with list of publications).
- Barbara Mundt: Everyday Museum Life from the Empire to Democracy. Chronicle of the Berliner Kunstgewerbemuseum . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-412-50746-6 , pp. 595-598. 600-604. 611-624. 631, 634-638. 754
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schoenberger, Arno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schönberg (Lower Bavaria) |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 13, 1993 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |