Clemens Weiler

Clemens Weiler (born September 18, 1909 in Tübingen , † August 1, 1982 in Stuttgart ) was a German art historian .

Life

Clemens Weiler studied art history in Munich, Paris, Vienna, Frankfurt and Marburg and received his doctorate at the University of Marburg in 1937 . From 1937 to 1939 he was museum director for the districts of Montabaur, Herborn, Königstein and Dietz. From September 1, 1946, he was director of the Gemäldegalerie Wiesbaden, and from 1969 until his retirement on January 31, 1972, director of the Wiesbaden Museum . He was primarily concerned with the work of the painters Alexej Jawlensky and Marianne Werefkin , who are well represented in the Wiesbaden Museum, and contributed to the expansion of the collection.

Publications (selection)

• Franz Ignaz Michael von Neumann (1733–1785). In: Mainzer Zeitschrift , 32, 1937, pp. 1-45 (dissertation).
• Alexej Jawlensky. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1959.
• (Ed.): Marianne Werefkin: Letters to an Unknown 1901–1905 . DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1960.
• Museo Marianne Werefkin, Ascona. Ascona 1967.
• The picture gallery of the Wiesbaden museum. Peters, Hanau 1968.
• Alexej Jawlensky. Heads, faces, meditations. Peters, Hanau 1970, ISBN 3-87627-217-3 .

literature

• Otto Renkhoff : Nassau biography. Short biographies from 13 centuries. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-922244-90-4 , p. 855.
• Alexander Klar: The Wiesbaden Museum 1825–1915. In: Museum Wiesbaden. The art collections. Hirmer, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7774-2464-4 , pp. 29–31.
• Rolf Faber: Clemens Weiler. In: Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden (Ed.): Wiesbaden. The city dictionary. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2017, ISBN 978-3-8062-2584-6 , p. 945.
• Bernd Fäthke : Marianne Werefkin: Clemens Weiler's Legacy. In: Tanja Malycheva, Isabel Wünsche (Ed.): Marianne Werefkin and the Women Artists in Her Circle. Brill Rodopi, Leiden 2017, ISBN 978-90-04-32897-6 , pp. 8-19, JSTOR 10.1163 / j.ctt1w8h0q1.7 .