Detlef Michael Noack

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Detlef Michael Noack (born November 25, 1925 in Berlin-Spandau , † December 9, 2014 in Prien am Chiemsee ) was a German photographer , art historian and university lecturer .

Life

Noack studied after the Second World War at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin , the fan painting and graphics , later at the Free University of Berlin , the fan art history and philosophy . After a stay at the Sorbonne in Paris , he made extensive study trips through France , Spain , Italy and Greece . His dissertation in 1956 was on the topic of the color reproduction of works of art: development, methods and possibilities with special consideration of color photography . Both Konrad Adenauer and Hermann Hesse wrote a foreword to his illustrated book about Greece, published in 1957 , with the introduction by Rudolf Hagelstange . More of his photo books were published in the 1950s and 1960s.

Noack worked from 1959 to 1963 as a photographer and head of the photo archive at the German Archaeological Institute in Madrid and was then head of the Goethe Institute in São Paulo , Brazil, until 1968 . In the same year he became a professor at the State University of Fine Arts in Kassel . From 1975 to 1977 he was founding president of the Hochschule der Künste (HdK) in Berlin.

Together with his colleague Barbara Gretenkord , Noack collected over 11,000 color slides of sacred buildings and their interiors from the 16th to 19th centuries on extensive travels through Latin America . These trips had their focus on the Jesuit reductions of the 16th to 18th centuries in the areas of today's states Brazil, Argentina , Paraguay and Bolivia . Noack left the archive material to the Art History Institute of the Free University of Berlin , it can be used for research and any necessary restorations. One example of this is the San Pedro church in the city of Sica Sica in Bolivia, which lost all of its interior fittings in 1998, but is documented by the two scientists with 73 color slides.

Detlef Michael Noack had a private collection of facsimiles of 530 volumes that his widow and daughter gave to the Art History Institute of the Free University of Berlin as a gift for teaching and research in 2015, one year after Noack's death.

Fonts

  • Dissertation at the Free University of Berlin, 1956.
  • Greece . Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin 1957.
  • Recordings of early Japanese. Book illustrations from the holdings of the Art Library in Berlin, selection and text: Ottomar Starke , Knorr & Hirth Munich / Ahrbeck 1958.
  • Color windows of French cathedrals . Egger Verlag, Cologne, around 1958. ( DNB 575256699 )
  • Spain . Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin 1961.
  • Do Ench Amun . Egger Verlag, Cologne 1967.
  • Slide library on German studies , two collections of 24 slides and text. Institute for Foreign Relations 1985 and 1986.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Free University of Berlin: Noack / Gretenkord picture archive . History of the collection . (Accessed March 16, 2019)
  2. "Inestimable value for teaching and research". Handover of the facsimile collection by Detlef Michael Noack to the Art History Institute of the Free University of Berlin . Free University of Berlin December 21, 2015 (accessed March 16, 2019)