Curt Schweicher

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Curt Schweicher (born July 29, 1908 in Trier ; died June 26, 1988 there ) was a German art historian and museum director.

Life

Curt Maria Bertram Schweicher was a son of the teacher Nikolaus Schweicher and Aline Bayer. He attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Trier and from 1927 studied Romance and German in Bonn and Munich. From 1929 to 1933 he studied art history, archeology and French literature in Paris, Berlin and Bonn, but was unable to complete his studies because he was de-registered after the Nazis took power in 1933.

He married the painter Margrit Lauer (1914–2002). When they helped other opponents of the regime, they faced arrest by the Gestapo, and in 1940 they fled to Switzerland, where he was interned in Geneva . Schweicher continued his studies in Zurich in 1945 and received his doctorate from Gotthard Jedlicka in 1947 with a dissertation on Edouard Vuillard .

From 1948 on, Schweicher taught at the Volkshochschule Trier and briefly took over the management in 1950. In 1951 he was appointed director of the newly founded Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen . In 1957 he was co-founder and editor of the magazine for architecture, industrial design and applied art form . From 1959 to 1961 Schweicher worked as a lecturer at the Staatliche Werkkunstschule Kassel and was co-editor of the newspaper Kasseler Morgen , before he took over the management of the Simeonstift Museum in Trier in 1961 , where he retired in 1974. He caused a stir in the city when he invited Joseph Beuys' art class to an exhibition in 1969 : Museum director Dr. Curt Schweicher. Can it be a little more unusual? Exhibition of the Beuys class in the Trier City Museum .

Schweicher wrote reviews for the feature section of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . He translated a large number of small art books from French that were published in Germany by Bertelsmann Lesering .

Fonts (selection)

  • The spatial design, the decorative and the ornamental in the work of Edouard Vuillard . Zurich, Univ., Diss., 1949
  • Monet . Bern: Joke, 1949
  • Daumier . Gütersloh: Lesering: Das Bertelsmann Buch, 1953
  • Art is dead - long live art . Afterword by Martin Gosebruch . Krefeld: Scherpe, 1960
  • Joseph-Emile Muller : Klee. Figures and masks . Translation by Curt Schweicher. Gütersloh: Mohn, 1961
  • Contemporary artists. Painter, sculptor, architect . Gütersloh: Mohn, 1962

literature

  • Schweicher, Curt , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical manual of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 638f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Johannes Stüttgen (ed.): The whole belt: the appearance of Joseph Beuys as a teacher; the chronology of events at the Düsseldorf State Art Academy 1966–1972 . Cologne: König, 2008 ISBN 978-3-86560-306-7 , p. 503ff.
personal data
SURNAME Schweicher, Curt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schweicher, Curt Maria Bertram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH trier
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1988
Place of death trier