Engelbert Baumeister (art historian)

Engelbert Baumeister (born March 18, 1880 in Berlin , † April 15, 1965 in Munich ) was a German art historian .

Engelbert Baumeister, son of the ophthalmologist Eduard Baumeister, passed his Abitur in 1899 at the grammar school in Bromberg . From 1899 to 1901 he studied in Freiburg, Munich and Berlin and then interrupted his studies to spend several years in the country and to do military service. In June 1906 he received his doctorate from Berthold Riehl in Munich.

On February 3, 1908, he began his work in the graphic collection in Munich, initially as an unpaid scientific assistant, from 1920 as an assistant, later as a curator, from 1937 as chief curator. As a former NSDAP member, he was briefly released in 1945, but was able to resume his work after denazification . He retired on April 30, 1948

He was mainly concerned with graphics, single-sheet prints and drawings by old German masters, but also, for example, by the Asam brothers .

Publications (selection)

• Rococo churches in Upper Bavaria (= Studies on German Art History 92). Heitz, Strasbourg 1907 (dissertation, digitized version ).
• Form cuts from the fifteenth century in the collections of the Princely House of Oettingen-Wallerstein in Maihingen . 2 volumes (= single-sheet prints of the fifteenth century 40; 52). Heitz, Strasbourg 1913, 1920.
• Veit Stoss. Replicas of his copperplate engravings . Cassirer, Berlin 1913.
• Form cuts of the XV. Century in the University Library of Munich (= single-sheet prints of the fifteenth century 51). Heitz, Strasbourg 1920.
• Drawings of old masters in the princely Fürstenberg cabinet of copper engravings in Donaueschingen . H. Schmidt, Munich 1920.

literature

• Die Weltkunst 35, 1965, p. 582.
• Sabine Wölfel: Biographies . In: Michael Semff , Kurt Zeitler (Hrsg.): Artists draw - collectors donate. 250 years of the State Graphic Collection in Munich . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2179-0 , Vol. 3, p. 141.
• Sabine Wagini: The State Graphic Collection in Munich is under reconstruction . In: Iris Lauterbach (Hrsg.): Art history in Munich 1947. Institutions and people in reconstruction . Central Institute for Art History, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-9806071-4-8 , p. 130.