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Erich Steingräber (born February 12, 1922 in Neuteich , Free City of Danzig ; † February 2, 2013 in Tegernsee ) was a German art historian .

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After attending secondary school in Szczecin and completing military service, he studied art history and classical archeology at the universities in Leipzig and Munich . In 1950 he was with a dissertation on the Ecclesial Illumination of Augsburg in 1500 in Munich to Dr phil. PhD .

Until 1952, Steingräber worked as a scientific volunteer at the state museums in Munich. For the next two years he worked at the Art History Institute in Florence and at the Metropolitan Museum in New York . From 1954 to 1962 he was first curator and then chief curator at the Bavarian National Museum . In 1962 he succeeded Ludwig Grote as general director of the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg . Under his leadership, this museum became a renowned cultural center during an important phase of reconstruction.

On June 1, 1969, he took over the management of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen as general director and became an honorary professor at the University of Munich. In 1987 he retired. During his 18-year tenure in Munich, he was not only able to enrich the holdings of the Alte Pinakothek , the Neue Pinakothek and the Moderne with top-class masterpieces thanks to his persistent and skilful collection policy , but at the same time opened up previously neglected epochs and gave the collections a new, important one Profile. His financing methods were quite controversial and led to a committee of inquiry in the Bavarian state parliament.

Steingräber's work also included internationally acclaimed exhibitions such as " Georg Baselitz " (1976), " The Munich School " (1979), "In the Light of Claude Lorrain " (1983), "Raphael in the Alte Pinakothek", " Lucio Fontana " ( 1983), “ Max Beckmann - Retrospective for the 100th Birthday” (1984), “ Hans von Marées ” and “Italy lies in ourselves. The Art of the German-Romans ”(1987).

Awards

Fonts (selection)

His scientific publications dealt in particular with the European goldsmith's art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as well as European painting and sculpture from the 16th to 20th centuries. Century. The focus was on Italian art. His writings on these topics, such as old jewelry - the art of European jewelry , Munich 1956 are standard works to this day.

  • The church illumination of Augsburg around 1500. Verlag Die Brigg, Augsburg, Basel 1956 (reprint 2001. ISBN 3-89639-294-8 ).
  • Two thousand years of European landscape painting. Hirmer, Munich 1988. ISBN 3-7774-3570-8 .
  • with Filippo Coarelli, Isa Belli Barsali: Treasures of the goldsmith's art. Ed. Atlantis, Zurich 1988. ISBN 3-7611-0718-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. phil. Erich Steingräber , memorial page in the online edition of the Süddeutsche Zeitung (accessed on February 12, 2013).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen: On the ninetieth birthday of Erich Steingräber. Muenchen.Bayern-online.de, accessed on March 12, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Lush Era. Erich Steingräber on his eightieth birthday. In: Feuilleton. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung No. 36, February 12, 2002, p. 47 , accessed on March 12, 2012 . ; Obscure people . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 1992 ( online ).
  4. ^ Bavarian State Parliament - plenary minutes of the 134th session. (PDF; 3.1 MB) July 15, 1994, accessed March 12, 2012 .
  5. ^ Accademicci - Classe di Storia dell'Arte ( Memento of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Stone graves, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, general director of the Bavarian State Painting Collections
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuteich , Free City of Danzig
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 2013
Place of death Tegernsee