Bruno Schröder (archaeologist)

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Walter Bruno Schröder (born October 25, 1878 in Rostock , † May 18, 1934 in Dresden ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Schröder spent his school days in Rostock and began studying archeology and philology here in the summer semester of 1897. After a year he moved to the University of Bonn , where Georg Loeschcke was to become his most important teacher. On August 5, 1901, he received his doctorate from the University of Bonn with a thesis on the grave monuments of the Roman Empire. The travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute enabled Schröder to travel to Greece and Asia Minor in 1902/03. During the excavations in Pergamon he worked briefly on the processing of the Greek inscriptions of the grammar school.

In October 1903 he began his service as a research assistant at the antiquities collection of the Royal Museums in Berlin. From April 1905 he was assistant director to Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz , from 1908 curator and professor. The first years at the museum were dominated by the restructuring of the exhibition. Schröder was allowed to participate in these renovation measures and extensions on his own responsibility and was primarily responsible for the sculpture collection. The conception of the exhibition from an art historical point of view occupied him throughout his time in Berlin. He wrote a guide to the sculptures, published most of the museum's new acquisitions in the Archäologische Anzeiger and wrote several Winckelmann programs . He also edited Kekulé's handbook The Greek Sculpture . His work on the sculptures, such as the extensive literature excerpts, was included in the description of the Carl Blümel collection .

On August 1, 1925, Schröder left Berlin and succeeded Paul Herrmann as director of the sculpture collection in Dresden . Here he was not only responsible for ancient statues, but also for works of ancient Egypt and modern times. That suited Schröder's inclinations, for example, he had already devoted the essay to Anselm Feuerbach and antiquity to modern art during his time in Berlin . Through acquisitions, he laid the foundation for the collection of classicist sculptures in the Albertinum. A reorganization of the collection was also necessary in Dresden, and the director's remit traditionally also included public lectures. Schröder was also an honorary professor for ancient art history at the Technical University of Dresden . In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . Probably under the general pressure of the new rulers, denunciation and the lack of resistance to the new political system in Germany, the soft-hearted and sensitive Schröder voluntarily passed away on May 18, 1934.

As the reorganizer of the permanent exhibition of two of the most important German archaeological collections, Schröder helped shape the understanding of ancient art for a significant period of time. He dealt with master and dating issues of the works, as it was not unusual in his time. In addition, he brought his own skills as a draftsman and sculptor into the work, sharpened his private artistic interests, but also the archaeological perspective. Schröder was a member of the German Archaeological Institute and the Archaeological Society of Berlin .

Fonts (selection)

  • Studies on the funerary monuments of the Roman Empire. Bonn 1902 (= dissertation).
  • Sports in ancient times . H. Schoetz & Co., Berlin 1927 (= art and culture , vol. 7).
  • Archaic, Greek sculptures / Schröder, Bruno. - Berlin: J. Bard, 1923.
  • Roman portraits / Schröder, Bruno. - Berlin: J. Bard, 1923.
  • Alkamenes studies / Schröder, Bruno. - Berlin: Association of scientific. Publisher, 1921.
  • Greek bronze buckets in Berlin Antiquarium / Schröder, Bruno. - Berlin: G. Reimer, 1914.
  • To the discobol of Myron / Schröder, Bruno. - Strasbourg: Heitz, 1913.

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  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ In: Yearbook of the Prussian Art Collections 1924, pp. 85–111.
  3. ↑ Huberta Heres: Bruno Schröder , in: Archäologenbildnisse p. 201: [...] kind, soft, sensitive man [...] .


personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1934
Place of death Dresden