Elmar Jansen

Elmar Jansen (born May 23, 1931 in Paderborn ; † December 7, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German art historian , author and editor of art historical works and essayist.

Life

Jansen was born in Paderborn. During his professional life he worked in the GDR and worked there at the Academy of Sciences . From 1971 to 1993 he worked at the Academy of the Arts in Berlin . He published monographs on Ernst Hassebrauk and Albert Ebert and in 1981 curated the first major exhibition in the GDR on Ernst Barlach . He was a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Jansen lived in Berlin until the end.

Publications (selection)

• Albert Ebert - Portrait of an Artist. Union-Verlag, Berlin 1959.
• Graphic portraits / Ernst Hassebrauk. VEB Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1959.
• A short history of German stained glass. VEB Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1963.
• Ernst Barlach Graphics - 48 lithographs and woodcuts. Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1970 - Insel-Bücherei 917.
• Ernst Barlach, Käthe Kollwitz : touches, borders, counter-images. Union-Verlag, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-372-00257-1 .
• Ernst Barlach. 4th edition. 1993. Verlag Henschel Berlin, ISBN 3-89487-013-3 .
• as editor: The Ernst Barlach museums in Güstrow , Ratzeburg , Hamburg , Wedel . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-363-00682-9 .
• A change of air of receptivity - Baal, Barlach, Benjamin and other essays. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-1835-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Elmar Jansen in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eduard Beaucamp: Janus-headed Modernism. Elmar Jansen has died. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 11, 2017, p. 15.
2. ↑ Elmar Jansen. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2016/2017. Volume II: PZ. Walter De Gruyter , 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045397-3 , pp. 453–454.
3. ↑ Commitment to the ostracized. In: FAZ . May 23, 2011, p. 30.