Eberhard Grunsky

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Eberhard Grunsky (born January 17, 1941 in Berlin ) is a German art historian and monument conservator .

Career

He is a son of the mathematician Helmut Grunsky and brother of the lawyer Wolfgang Grunsky . He completed his studies in art history, classical archeology and middle and modern history in Würzburg, Bonn and Tübingen in 1969 with a doctorate under Günter Bandmann . After working on the Dehio Handbook of German Art Monuments, Volume Lower Saxony and Bremen, he worked in monument conservation from 1971, initially at the office of the Rhineland State Conservator in Bonn. In 1978 he moved to the State Monuments Office in Baden-Württemberg, Tübingen branch. From 1980 he was head of the inventory department at the headquarters in Stuttgart and from 1984 head of the building and art monument maintenance department. From 1987 until his retirement in 2006, he succeeded Dietrich Ellger as the state curator for Westphalia-Lippe and head of the Westphalian Office for Monument Preservation at the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association in Münster. In 1996, the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster appointed him honorary professor.

Fonts (selection)

  • Double-storey Johanniter churches and related buildings. Studies on the type history of medieval hospital architecture. Diss. Tübingen 1969, diss. Pressure Düsseldorf 1970.
  • with Volker Osteneck: The southern part of Bonn. Landeskonservator Rheinland, workbook 6, 2nd revised edition, Cologne 1976.
  • Four settlements in Duisburg 1925–1930. Landeskonservator Rheinland, workbook 12. Cologne 1975.
  • Otto Engler, Business and Department Store Architecture 1904–1914. Landeskonservator Rheinland, workbook 28. Cologne 1979.
  • Examples of early department stores in the Ruhr area and their great role models. In: Westfalen Vol. 72, 1994. Preservation of monuments in Westfalen-Lippe 1985–1991, pp. 406–488.
  • From the beginnings of suspension bridge construction in Westphalia. In: Westfalen Vol. 76, 1998. Preservation of monuments in Westfalen-Lippe 1998, pp. 100–159.
  • Johann August Röbling's first draft for a suspension bridge. In: Nele Güntheroth and Andreas Kahlow (eds.): From Mühlhausen to the New World. The bridge builder JA Röbling (1806–1869). Mühlhausen contributions special issue 15. Mühlhausen in Thuringia 2006, pp. 28–75.
  • Age value and new form. Contributions to the preservation of monuments and the building history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Preservation of monuments and research in Westphalia, Vol. 51. Mainz 2011.
  • with Barbara Rommé, Bernd Thier, Stephan Winkler u. a .: Schlossplatz - Hindenburgplatz - Neuplatz in Münster. Plenty of space for 350 years. Workbook of the LWL monument preservation, landscape and building culture in Westphalia, vol. 11. Münster 2012.
  • The chain bridge and the iron and steel works in Porta Westfalica. Comments on construction in the context of economic history. In: Westfalen Vol. 92, 2014, pp. 193–228.
  • Otto Piene's "Silver Frequency" - the first. In: INSITU, Zeitschrift für Architekturgeschichte Vol. 8, 2016, pp. 283–292.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Preservation of monuments in Westphalia-Lippe, 12th year, 2006, issue 2.
personal data
SURNAME Grunsky, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin