Edgar Lehmann (art historian)

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Edgar Lehmann (born September 20, 1909 in Jena , † July 28, 1997 in Berlin ) was a German building and art historian .

Life

After high school in Jena Edgar Lehmann received his doctorate in 1937 at the city's university to Dr. phil. The topic of his dissertation was: The early German church building. The development of its spatial arrangement up to 1080 .

After military service in World War II, he became a scientific librarian and in 1948 an assistant at the Art History Institute of the University of Jena . After his habilitation in 1950, he received an extraordinary professorship for art history in 1953, but only one year later he switched to the department for art history founded by Richard Hamann at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . After Hamann's death in 1961, he took over the management of this position.

Lehmann wrote a large number of trend-setting writings on church and monastery architecture in the Middle Ages and made great contributions as a science organizer. Under his leadership, the revision of the " Dehio Handbook of German Art Monuments " and the development of the " Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi " for the GDR area began. As head of the department for art history, he initiated the "Corpus of Romanesque Art in the Saxon-Thuringian Area" and the "Writings on Art History". After the job was closed as part of an academy reform in 1971, both ranks had to be discontinued and Lehmann himself switched to the Institute for Monument Preservation at the GDR Ministry of Culture. There he headed the Central Research Department until his retirement in 1974. Together with Ernst Schubert , who had also worked at the Department of Art History since 1954, Lehmann wrote several monographs on cathedral churches in Central Germany aimed at a broad public.

Lehmann was married and had three children.

Honors

In 1989 Edgar Lehmann was awarded the Star of Friendship of Nations in silver.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Michaelskirche zu Rohr and its crypt . In: Arte del primo milennio. Atti del Convegno di Pavia (1950) per lo studio dell`Alto Medio Evo , Turin 1951, pp. 343–351.
  • The developmental position of the Carolingian monastery church between church family and cathedral . In: Scientific journal of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 1952/53, pp. 131–144.
  • Michael from Jena. A picture from the 13th century , Jena: Stadtmuseum, 1954.
  • The library rooms of German monasteries in the Middle Ages (= writings on art history, no.2), Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1957.
  • The early Christian church families of the episcopal seats in Germany and their change during the early Middle Ages. In: Contributions to the history of art and archeology of the early Middle Ages. Files for the VII. International Congress for Early Medieval Research 1958, ed. v. Hermann Fillitz , Graz, Cologne: Böhlau-Verlag 1962, pp. 88–99.
  • From the church family to the cathedral. Comments on a line of development in medieval architecture. In: Festschrift Friedrich Gerke , ed. v. JA Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth, Baden-Baden: Holle-Verlag 1962, pp. 21–37.
  • A fresco cycle Altomontes in Linz and the “programs” of baroque art (= session reports of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, class for languages, literature and art, born in 1964, no.3), Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1964.
  • The architecture of Charlemagne's time. In: Carolingian Art , ed. v. Wolfgang Braunfels and Hermann Schnitzler (= Karl der Große. Lebenswerk und Nachleben , ed. By Wolfgang Braunfels, Vol. 3), Düsseldorf: Schwann, 1965, pp. 301–319.
  • (with Ernst Schubert): The Meissen Cathedral. Contributions to the building history and design up to the end of the 13th century (= writings on art history, issue 14), Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1968; 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1969.
  • (with Ernst Schubert and Klaus G. Beyer): The cathedral in Meißen , Berlin: Union-Verlag, 1971; 2nd revised edition, Berlin: Union-Verlag, 1973.
  • (with Johanna Flemming and Ernst Schubert): Cathedral and Domschatz zu Halberstadt , Berlin: Union-Verlag, 1973 (Vienna, Cologne: Böhlau, 1974).
  • The palace of Otto the Great in Magdeburg. In: Architecture of the Middle Ages. Function and shape, ed. v. Friedrich Möbius u. Ernst Schubert, Weimar: Böhlaus successor, 1983, pp. 42–62; 2nd revised edition Weimar: Böhlaus successor, 1984.
  • The "Confessio" in the Servatius Church in Quedlinburg. In: Sculpture of the Middle Ages. Function and shape, ed. v. Friedrich Möbius and Ernst Schubert, Weimar: Böhlaus Successor, 1987, pp. 9–26.
  • From the church family to the cathedral and other essays. With an introduction by Ernst Schubert, Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1999.

literature

  • Ernst Schubert: Edgar Lehmann. Researcher, science organizer and university professor as of September 20, 1989 . In: Erhard Drachenberg , Marina Flügge (Hrsg.): Image and architecture in the mirror of international research. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Prof. Edgar Lehmann . Institute for the Preservation of Monuments in the GDR, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-345-00399-6 .
  • Rüdiger Becksmann : Obituary for Edgar Lehmann (September 10, 1909 - July 28, 1997) . In: Journal of the German Association for Art History, 51/1997.
  • Hans K. Schulze : Edgar Lehmann (1909–1997) . In: Saxony and Anhalt. Yearbook of the Historical Commission for Saxony-Anhalt , ISSN 0945-2842, Volume 21 (1999), pp. 365-368.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edgar Lehmann is occasionally confused with the art historian of the same name from Mannheim , who a few years earlier than Edgar Lehmann at the University of Jena as a Dr. phil. PhD. The subject of this Edgar Lehmann's dissertation in 1929 was A didactic picture cycle of the late Middle Ages at the St. Nikolaikirche in Jena-Lichtenhain . The dissertation appeared in print in Strasbourg in 1931. This Edgar Lehmann married Annelise Tovote in 1933 , with whom he had three children. The couple separated in 1952. (Source: House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany (Ed.): Frauenobjektiv. Photographers 1940 to 1950 , Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-87909-752-6 and ISBN 3-87909-754-2 , p. 135)
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , April 29, 1989, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1997
Place of death Berlin