Detlef Lorenz

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Detlef Lorenz (born December 6, 1938 in Hirschberg im Riesengebirge ( Jelenia Góra ); † February 4, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German cultural-historical researcher and author.

Life

Lorenz studied art history and journalism at the Free University of Berlin . He then worked in advertising and information in industry for 40 years. In his research and publications, he first dealt with the history of advertising, especially with old advertising collector's pictures (e.g. Liebig pictures ) and the artists who designed such pictures; The result is the monograph Advertising Art around 1900 . In cooperation with the Museum of European Cultures in Berlin, he developed exhibitions on this topic. This resulted in extensive research on lesser-known or forgotten visual artists, especially from the first half of the 20th century, among others. a. Jewish artists (e.g. David Friedmann) or artists from Gerhart Hauptmann's circle ( Josef Block , Johannes Maximilian Avenarius ). His best-known work is Künstlerpuren in Berlin , a general overview of creative and memorial places of visual artists in Berlin from the baroque to today. With numerous contributions, Lorenz was an employee of the General Artists' Dictionary as well as co-editor and lecturer of the annual conference volumes of the Bild Druck Papier working group . He was able to complete his last book project on press draftsmen and press illustrations in Berlin during the Weimar Republic , but died shortly before the publication was published.

Literature selection

  • Gustav Adolf Closs . The life and work of the painter, illustrator and advertising artist with an excursus on the advertising collecting picture system . Scaneg-Verlag, Munich 1988 (Contributions to Art History Volume 22)
  • Berlin around 1900. The imperial city on collector's pictures . Nicolai Verlag , Berlin 1998
  • Advertising art around 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2000
  • Traces of artists in Berlin from the baroque to today. A guide to places of residence, work and memorials of visual artists . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2002
  • David Friedmann (1893-1980). A Berlin press illustrator from the 1920s . Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2008 (Jewish Miniatures Volume 69)
  • Pictures in the press. Press draftsman and press illustrations in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. Documentation and artist lexicon . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2019

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Konrad Vanja : Laudation in the conference proceedings Hagenow 2008 ( Working Group Image Print Paper , Volume 13) Münster: Waxmann Verlag , 2009, pp. 263–267
  2. ↑ Book presentation "Pictures in the Press" by Detlef Lorenz - Lukas Verlag für Kunst- und Geistesgeschichte. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lorenz, Detlef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural-historical researcher and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Deer Mountain in the Giant Mountains ( Jelenia Góra )
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 2019
Place of death Berlin