Axel von Saldern
Axel von Saldern (born July 28, 1923 in Potsdam ; died June 2, 2012 in Söcking ) was a German art historian and museum director.
Life
After his military service, Von Saldern studied art history, classical archeology and palaeography at the University of Munich from 1946 and received his doctorate in 1952 under Hans Sedlmayr . He has been a curator at the Corning Museum of Glass since 1954 and at the Brooklyn Museum since 1961 and curator and deputy director at the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf since 1966 . From 1971 to 1988 he was director of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg . In 1981 he organized the Tutankhamun exhibition in Germany, the first major exhibition after the Second World War , which attracted over 600,000 visitors in Hamburg alone. He was a pioneer in Germany with the establishment of a museum education department.
His specialty was the history of glass . As an author, von Saldern wrote a large number of exhibition catalogs and, among other things, published a volume in 1995 on the glass artworks in the collection of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe.
Fonts (selection)
- Studies of Mannerist Portrait in Italy. Dissertation, Munich 1952
- German enameled glass. The Edwin J. Kniecke collection and related pieces. Corning Museum of Glass, 1965
- Medieval sculptures. Art Museum, Düsseldorf 1966
- Old glasses. Art Museum, Düsseldorf 1968
- with Brigitte Klesse: 500 years of glass art. Biemann collection. ABC-Verlag, Zurich 1978, ISBN 3-85504-053-2
- Isgard Moje-Wohlgemuth, Klaus Moje, glass. Hörnemann, Bonn 1980, ISBN 3-87384-470-2
- Glass from antiquity to art nouveau. Hans Cohn Collection, Los Angeles / Cal. von Zabern, Mainz 1981, ISBN 3-8053-0454-4
- Bugatti. Works of art on wheels. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-89234-218-0
- Glass. Antiquity to Art Nouveau. The collection in the Museum of Art and Industry Hamburg. Arnold, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-925369-42-2
- Antique glass. Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-51994-6
literature
- Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk: Obituary for Prof. Dr. Axel von Saldern (1923–2012). In: Deutsche Glastechnische Gesellschaft Journal 11, 4, 2012, pp. 45–46 ( PDF ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Axel von Saldern in the catalog of the German National Library
- MKG mourns the loss of Axel von Saldern , obituary on the website of the Museum of Art and Industry Hamburg, June 7, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Saldern, Axel von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German museum director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Potsdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 2, 2012 |
| Place of death | Söcking |