Edmund Renard (the younger)
Edmund Renard (the younger) (born June 10, 1871 in Cologne , † March 1, 1932 in Bonn ) was a German builder , art historian and monument conservator .
family
Edmund Renard was a son of the sculptor Edmund Renard (the Elder) (1830-1905) and a brother of the architect Heinrich Renard , who created the Cologne Heinzelmännchen fountain with his father .
Life
After training with his uncle, the architect Heinrich Wiethase , Edmund Renard studied art history in Strasbourg and Leipzig, where he completed his dissertation in 1896, The Buildings of Electors Joseph Clemens and Clemens August of Cologne. A contribution to the history of Roccoco in Germany with Georg Dehio for Dr. phil. received his doctorate .
After working at the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts from 1896 to 1898 , he became a member of the Rhenish Commission for Monument Statistics in Düsseldorf and later became director of the Monument Archives of the Rhine Province.
His work at the Ministry of Culture from 1910 was followed by Paul Clemen's successor from 1911 to 1928 as provincial curator in Bonn; his successor was Franz Wolff-Metternich .
Buildings and designs
year | image | place | object | state | comment |
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1905-1906 | Viersen– Dülken | St. Cornelius | North Rhine-Westphalia | Construction management for the completion of the nave and bell tower according to plans by Heinrich Wiethase . | |
1912-1914 | Jülich– Kirchberg | St. Martinus | North Rhine-Westphalia | extension | |
1913 | Jülich– Mersch | St. Agatha | North Rhine-Westphalia | extension | |
1914-1921 | trier | St. Matthias | Rhineland-Palatinate | restoration | |
1926-1927 | Cologne– Humboldt / Gremberg | St. Engelbert | North Rhine-Westphalia | New building together with Josef van Geisten . | |
1928-1929 | Baesweiler | St. Peter | North Rhine-Westphalia | New building together with Josef van Geisten . |
Fonts (selection)
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The art monuments of the Rhine Province
- Vol. 5, 1: The art monuments of the districts of Gummersbach, Waldbröl and Wipperfürth. Düsseldorf 1900.
- Vol. 5, 4: The art monuments of the Siegkreis. Düsseldorf 1907.
- Vol. 8, 1: with Karl Franck-Oberaspach : The art monuments of the Jülich district. Düsseldorf 1902.
- Vol. 8, 2: The art monuments of the districts of Erkelenz and Geilenkirchen. Düsseldorf 1904
- Vol. 8, 3: with Karl Franck-Oberaspach: The art monuments of the Heinsberg district. Düsseldorf 1906.
- Vol. 9, 1: with Paul Hartmann: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Düren. Düsseldorf 1910.
- From old Rhenish bells. In: Communications from the Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Heritage Protection , 12th year 1918, pp. 1–93.
- The fine arts. In: Gesellschaft für Rheinische Geschichtskunde (Hrsg.): History of the Rhineland from the oldest time to the present. Volume 2. Essen 1922, pp. 365-462.
- as editor: The Rhineland in color photography (= Germany in color photography, volumes 6 and 7). Publishing house for color photography Carl Weller, Berlin 1921, 1922
literature
- Petra Adamek-Pohl, Claudia Euskirchen, Marco Kieser: Edmund Renard (1871–1932). Provincial curator of the Rhine Province. In: Rheinische Heimatpflege . Vol. 28, No. 4, 1991, ISSN 0342-1805 , pp. 241-246.
- Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. 2nd, revised and expanded edition, vol. 8, KG Saur, Munich 2007, p. 322 ( digitized from Google books).
Web links
- Literature by and about Edmund Renard in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Willi Müller: In good and bad years. Contributions to the history of the parish of St. Pankratius in Oberpleis , p. 26 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 26, 2014.
- ^ Winfried Speitkamp : The administration of history. Preservation of monuments and the state in Germany 1871–1933. (= Critical Studies in History . Volume 114). Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-525-35777-X , p. 272 ( online at Google books).
- ↑ Manfred Becker-Huberti and Günter A. Menne (eds.): Cologne churches. The churches of the Catholic and Protestant communities in Cologne. 1st edition, Cologne 2004, p. 57.
- ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat (Ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 182.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Renard, Edmund (the younger) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German builder, art historian and preservationist |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1871 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1932 |
Place of death | Bonn |