Erhard Drachenberg

Erhard Drachenberg

Erhard Karl Drachenberg (born May 6, 1932 in Lodz ) is a German art historian and specialist in glass painting .

Life

Growing up in Kraków (Kraków), he came to Weißenfels / Saale (Saxony-Anhalt) as a displaced person during and after the Second World War via Mittelwalde (Międzylesie, Lower Silesia / Poland) and Soest (Westphalia). There he passed his Abitur at the Goethe High School in 1952 and studied art history and archeology in Leipzig and Berlin from 1953 to 1955 . The art historian and state curator Thomas Drachenberg is his son from his marriage to Gisela Drachenberg, b. Teut.

job

Since 1959, Drachenberg was a research assistant in the department for art history at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin with the task of developing the international volumes of the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) for the GDR, which were sponsored by UNESCO . In between he did practical work in a glass workshop. In 1976 he received his doctorate with the topic "Medieval stained glass in Erfurt Cathedral" at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg as a Dr. phil. In 1992 he completed his habilitation at the same university . From 1991 to 2000 he was head of the Potsdam office for glass painting research of the CVMA at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences with the order to produce the Corpus Vitrearum volumes Germany for the new federal states . In addition, he managed numerous projects of the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) and the German Foundation for Monument Protection (DSD) for the renovation of important glass painting cycles in Germany and Poland, among others in Erfurt, Halberstadt, Havelberg, Stendal or Schwerin at the local cathedrals, also in Słońsk, Poland ( Sonnenburg). His efforts also focused on the collection and documentation of colored glazing from the 19th and early 20th centuries (Leipzig (Peterskirche, Völkerschlachtdenkmal)). On behalf of the federal government , he was involved in the return of the medieval stained glass from St. Petersburg to the Marienkirche in Frankfurt / Oder.

After his retirement , Drachenberg worked as a specialist advisor for the restoration , conservation or reconstruction of glass paintings. He worked on projects of the German-Polish Foundation for Cultural Preservation and Monument Protection (DPS) in cooperation with the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM). So he was z. B. in Świdnica (Schweidnitz) and Jawor (Jauer) involved in the evangelical peace churches (cultural heritage) and as an expert advisor for historical glazing at the Dome and Palaces Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt .

Awards

For his committed work, he received the Badge of Honor of the Order of St. John in 2005 , the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon in 2012 and honorary membership in the National Committee of the Corpus Vitrearum Germany in 2016 .

Works

• Medieval stained glass in the religious order churches and in the Angermuseum in Erfurt. (Article Predigerkirche, also contains articles Barfüßerkirche by Karl-Joachim Maercker and Augustinerkirche by Christa Schmidt). Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Germany Vol. XV, 1 (published as GDR Vol. 1.1). Akademie - Verlag, Berlin 1976. License number 202-100 / 345/76.
• Medieval stained glass in the German Democratic Republic. (Articles pp. 7-14, 23-30 and 193, 194, 196, 201-204, 210, 211, 225-228, 233,239). Union Verlag Berlin, Berlin 1979. License no. 395/2836/79.
• Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Germany. Vol. XV, 2 (published as GDR Vol.1,2): The medieval glass painting in Erfurt Cathedral (text volume). Akademie - Verlag, Berlin 1980. ISBN 3-205-00581-3 .
• Medieval stained glass in Erfurt. Verlag der Kunst Dresden, Dresden 1990. ISBN 3-364-00044-1 .
• The medieval stained glass from the Marienkirche in Frankfurt an der Oder. Meaning, fate, return. In: Cultural assets in World War II. Relocation - discovery - return. (Edited by Uwe Hartmann), edited by the Coordination Office for the Loss of Cultural Property Magdeburg)., Vol. 4. Publications of the Coordination Office for the Loss of Cultural Property, Magdeburg 2007, pp. 461 - 481. ISBN 3-9811367-05 .
• The lost stained glass of Magdeburg Cathedral. (A documentation with two contributions by Michael Sußmann, floor plan with window plan and window representations by Dietrich Otte, published by the Dome and Castles Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt, Edition Leipzig in the Seemann Henschel GmbH & Co. KG, Leipzig 2014. ISBN 978-3 -361-00696-6 .

Web links

• Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for Dr. Erhard Drachenberg
• Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi. Stained glass research
• Appreciation for Dr. Erhard Drachenberg