Eleonore Klee

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Eleonore Klee (* 1901 in Leipzig , † 1994 in St. Florian ) was a German - Austrian bookbinder and book restorer .

Live and act

After attending the State Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade in Leipzig, Eleonore Klee gained many years of professional experience in handicraft bookbinding and restoration jobs for the Leipzig Imperial Court.

In 1944 she was entrusted with the restoration of the book collection in the Florian Monastery in her own bookbinding workshop in the Meierhof of St. Florian Monastery (today Hall 9 of the Upper Austrian Fire Brigade Museum St. Florian ). She received orders and a. also from the Upper Austrian State Museum .

Works

Reference book
  • The book restorer and his work. Overview of the restoration of manuscripts and incunabula , self-published or unpublished, St. Florian, 1981, made available in Frankfurt and Leipzig
Essays
  • Knotted stitching of the 15th century , in: Codices Manuscripti, 1978, p. 89ff.
  • Numerous articles in the trade journal Allgemeine Anzeiger für Buchbindereien, from 1977 binding report , bulletin of the German professional organization of the bookbinding trade, Hanover, etc. a.
  • Pouch tape of Admont Abbey , in Volume 84, 1971, No. 3, pp 141 to 143
  • Restorations on Florentine flood-damaged volumes , in Volume 81, 1968, No. 1, pp. 34 to 35
  • The beechwood cover of medieval codices up to the modern age , 1978, No. 4, pp 174 to 176

Award

1969 appointment as professor hc

literature

  • Hannes Haybäck : In memory of Professor Eleonore Klee , private print, St. Florian 1994
  • Walter Knoglinger : Book treasures from the Middle Ages saved from decay. The life's work of the book restorer Eleonore Klee , in: Blickpunkte Oberösterreich, culture magazine, year 41 (1991), issue 1, Linz 1994, p. 16ff.
  • Martin Hartleb : Two pioneers of the bookbinding trade, in: Der Österreichische Buchbinder , specialist magazine for Austrian bookbinders, cardboard box, case and paper goods manufacturers, October to December 2007, p. 13.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eike Barbara Dürrfeld: Research into book clasps and book fittings , inaugural dissertation at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Department of History, Wiesbaden 2000, p. 265, queried on October 6, 2015
  2. ↑ Wilhelm Jenny : Obituary. Johann Oberleitner †. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. 103rd Volume, Linz 1958, p. 7, PDF on ZOBODAT .
  3. ↑ Entry, in: Regesta Imperii website accessed on October 6, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Klee, Eleanor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian bookbinder and book restorer
DATE OF BIRTH 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 1994
Place of death St. Florian , Austria