Eberhard von Cranach-Sichart

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Eberhard von Cranach-Sichart (born September 14, 1886 in Dresden , † October 15, 1967 in Gauting ) was a German art historian , lecturer and art expert.

Life

Eberhard von Sichart was adopted by his stepmother Wanda von Cranach (* 1861) on September 11, 1916 and has had the double name ever since. It was in 1914 at the University of Munich with Heinrich Wolfflin with a dissertation on François Mansart Dr. phil. PhD . After serving in the First World War , from 1920 to 1927 he worked for a time as a self-employed art dealer and from 1927 on gave courses at the Munich Adult Education Center . In 1920 he joined the German National People's Party . Cranach-Sichart wrote magazine articles and entries for Thieme-Becker . After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he applied for admission to the Reich Chamber of Literature , and in 1940 he became a member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts in accordance with his collaboration with the Munich art auction house Adolf Weinmüller . At Weinmüller he was hired as managing director in 1939. On art theft Kajetan Mühlmanns the Kunsthaus Weinmüller was involved as a major buyer of paintings and antiques, the list includes fourteen typewritten pages.

After the war he worked briefly as a publishing editor in Gauting in 1946 and then returned to Weinmüller and stayed there after 1958, when the Weinmüller company was transferred to Rudolf Neumeister. His statements as a witness in court proceedings and in restitution proceedings are so brief that only a few conclusions can be drawn about his person.

Von Cranach-Sichardt wrote short stories and short stories. Together with Joseph Müller-Blattau , he wrote an introduction to Johann Sebastian Bach's life and work. His publication of all surviving songs by Paul Gerhardt , which he published for the first time in 1949 and then in 1957 in an expanded new edition, was of lasting importance ; A 4th edition appeared in 2007.

Fonts

  • The builder François Mansart 1598-1666. A contribution to the history of French architecture in the 17th century. Dissertation Munich 1914
  • Lindau. Dr. Benno Filser Verlag, Augsburg 1929 (German Art Guide; Vol. 44)
  • Schongau-Altenstadt-Peiting. Dr. Benno Filser Verlag, Augsburg 1929 (German Art Guide; Vol. 40)
  • Paradise Lost: Novella. P. Müller, Munich 1947
  • Infirmity or recovery: thoughts z. Renewal d. Protestant church. P. Müller, Munich 1947 (tasks and goals of the Evangelical Church; volume 1)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach. An introduction to his life and his music. 1935. 4th, revised with the assistance of Joseph Müller-Blattau. Ed. Langewiesche, Königstein i. Ts. 1968
  • The Dead of Taganrog and other stories and novellas , Paul Müller 1951
  • Paul Gerhardt: Wake up, my heart, and sing. Complete edition of his songs and poems. Edited by Eberhard von Cranach-Sichart, 1947. 4th edition. R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 2007, ISBN 978-3-417-24795-4

literature

  • Meike Hopp: Art trade under National Socialism: Adolf Weinmüller in Munich and Vienna. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2012, also dissertation at the University of Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20807-3
  • Christian Bunners: Foreword . In: Paul Gerhardt: Wake up, my heart and sing 4th edition, R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 2007, pp. 7-11

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meike Hopp: Art Trade in National Socialism . 2012, p. 135ff.
  2. ^ Jean Vlug: Vlug Report 25 December 1945 . Pp. 78-91, lootedart
  3. ↑ Meike Hopp: Art Trade in National Socialism . 2012, p. 138
personal data
SURNAME Cranach-Sichart, Eberhard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cranach-Sichart, Eberhard Arnold von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1967
Place of death Gauting