Eberhard Ruhmer

Eberhard Ruhmer (born June 26, 1917 in Delitzsch ; † 1996 ) was a German art historian and curator .

Life

Ruhmer's father Wilhelm Ruhmer, the Protestant pastor in Delitzsch, later in Halle an der Saale , was a very educated, art-loving man. He had studied in Switzerland, where he had numerous friends with whom he went on art trips every year until the outbreak of World War II , often to France and Italy. The eldest son of the family - Helmut Ruhmer - was a talented painter. He taught his younger brother painting from an early age.

Eberhard Ruhmer was very musical. He played the harpsichord . He visited the Francke Foundations in Halle and graduated from high school there in 1936. In 1937 he undertook his first trip to Italy, during which he made numerous sketches and watercolors and painted pictures. From 1936 to 1940 he studied art history , archeology and philosophy in Berlin and Halle . His teachers included Waetzoldt, Wilhelm Pinder , Koch, Rodenwaldt, Nicolei Hartmann, Ernesto Grassi and P. Altheim. In the summer of 1939 he spent several weeks in Paris . He wanted to continue his studies at the Sorbonne . The outbreak of the Second World War prevented this.

In 1940 he received his doctorate from Waetzoldt in Halle on the art theory of the Leiblkreis. He was a soldier from 1940 until he was released from Soviet captivity in autumn 1945. From 1946 to 1948 he was an assistant at the Moritzburg Museum in Halle. In 1949 he moved to West Berlin, where he worked as an art critic for several newspapers. This moved him to give up painting entirely.

In 1950 the 1st edition of his Stilkunde der Deutschen Kunst was published , in 1958 the 2nd edition, and in 1951 a book for the youth Behind the Studio Window , which was also published in Dutch. In 1952 he was a one-year scholarship holder at the Art History Institute in Florence . He made numerous trips within Italy, especially to Bologna and Ferrara from 1953 to 1955 as a research assistant at the Hamburger Kunsthalle . From 1955 to 1957 he was again on a scholarship in Florence, this time funded by the German Research Foundation. Ruhmer made extensive studies of Ferrarese art and was commissioned by Professor Goldscheider to write a monograph on the Ferrarese painter Cosimo Tura.

From 1958 to 1968 he was editor of the Munich art magazines Die Kunst und das Schöne Heim and Das Pantheon at Bruckmann Verlag, where he published numerous articles. In 1967, Ruhmer was appointed to the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen , where he headed the department for the 19th century as chief curator until his retirement in 1982.

Works (selection)

• Stylistics of German Art, Berlin, Lemmer Verlag, 1st edition 1950, 2nd edition 1958
• American Art Ullstein-Verlag 1956
• Cosimo Tura 1958 Phaidon, London
• Francesco del Cossa 1959 Bruckmann, Munich
• Lyonel Feininger 1961 Bruckmann, Munich
• Lucas Cranach the Elder Ä. 1963 Phaidon, London, Barcelona, ​​in English and Spanish
• Albrecht Altdorfer 1965 Bruckmann, Munich
• Hanna Nagel 1965 Bruckmann, Munich
• Marco Zoppo 1966 Neri Pozza, Venice, Italian
• Artur Degner 1967 Bruckmann, Munich
• The Leibl Circle and pure painting 1984 Rosenheimer Verlag

Web links

• ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: biography Eberhard Ruhmer )
• Literature by and about Eberhard Ruhmer in the catalog of the German National Library