Erich Wiese

Erich Wiese (born August 30, 1891 in Liebau in Silesia , † November 24, 1979 in Munich ) was a German art historian .

Life

Erich Wiese was the son of a locomotive stoker from Liebau. He studied at the universities of Jena, Munich, Göttingen, Lausanne and Breslau. In 1920 he was at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau to work The Breslauer wooden sculpture from its origins to the output of the soft style doctorate . He worked as an art historian at the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, where he was appointed curator in 1925 . In 1929 he became director of the museum, which he expanded further. During his tenure, Wiese expanded the house's collection primarily to include works by Expressionist artists. So he bought u. a. many socially critical graphics by George Grosz and Otto Dix , like his predecessor Heinz Braune , who headed the museum from 1919 to 1929. For his commitment to the Modern Art was meadow in the era of National Socialism as undesirable and was used by the on June 23, 1933 the Nazis removed from office. His successor was Cornelius Müller-Hofstede , who was employed at the Breslau Art Museum in 1934 and was appointed full museum director two years later.

After his release, Wiese moved to Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains (today Jelenia Góra ), where he worked as a private scientist and ran an antiquarian bookshop. After the end of the Second World War , he left Silesia in 1945 and, after living in Bavaria for a short time, settled in Auerbach (Bensheim) . In 1950 he became director of the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt . Above all, he drove the acquisition of works of classical modernism for the house. a. Win the entrepreneur Karl Ströher (co-owner of the Darmstadt-based Wella group) as a sponsor, who in the 1960s and 1970s was considered to be "one of the most important sponsors and collectors of modern art" in Germany. Wiese was in charge of the museum until 1959 when he retired. His successor was Gerhard Bott . From 1952, Wiese held an honorary professorship at the Technical University in Darmstadt.

Awards

• 1967: Georg Dehio Prize of the Esslingen Artists' Guild

Publications (selection)

• Silesian sculpture from the beginning of the 14th to the middle of the 15th Century. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1923.
• Paul Gauguin. Two decades after his death (=  Young Art in Europe , Volume 36). Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1923.
• Alexander Archipenko (=  Young Art in Europe , Volume 40). Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1923.
• with Heinz Braune and with the assistance of Ernst Kloss (Ed.): Silesian painting and sculpture of the Middle Ages. Critical catalog of the exhibition in Breslau in 1926. Exhibition catalog. Alfred Kröner Verlag, Leipzig 1929.
• with Karl Ströher : Exhibition art of our time. Private collection, Karl Ströher. June – September 1954. Exhibition catalog. Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Darmstadt 1954.
• German culture in the east. Permanent exhibition in Wiesbaden, "House of Home". Catalog. Hessian Minister of Culture, Wiesbaden (around 1966).
• Biedermeier tour through Silesia. JG Bläschke Verlag, Darmstadt 1966.

literature

• Magdalena Palica / Dagmar Schmengler: Erich Wiese. Silesian Museum of Fine Arts in Wroclaw . In: Dagmar Schmengler u. a. (Ed.): Painter. Mentor. Magician. Otto Mueller and his network in Breslau, Heidelberg a. a .: Kehrer 2018. ISBN 978-3-86828-873-5 , pp. 48–51.
• Wiese, Erich , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 765-767

Web links

• Literature by and about Erich Wiese in the catalog of the German National Library
• Information about Erich Wiese on the website Kulturportal West-Ost
• Information on Erich Wiese on the Schlesische Kunstsammlungen website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Arno Lubos : History of the Literature of Silesia Volume 3. Bergstadtverlag Korn, Munich 1974, p. 460 ( excerpt from Google books ).
2. ↑ Maike Steinkamp: The undesirable inheritance. The reception of "degenerate" art in art criticism, exhibitions and museums of the Soviet occupation zone and early GDR (=  writings of the research center "Degenerate Art" , Volume 2). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004450-7 , p. 32 ( excerpt from Google Books ; also dissertation, University of Bonn 2007).
3. ↑ Maike Steinkamp: The undesirable inheritance. The reception of "degenerate" art in art criticism, exhibitions and museums of the Soviet occupation zone and early GDR (=  writings of the research center "Degenerate Art" , Volume 2). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004450-7 , p. 54 ( excerpt from Google Books ).
4. ↑ Lutz Fichtner (arr.); Friends of the Landesmuseum Darmstadt e. V., Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (Hrsg.): 50 years of friends of the Landesmuseum Darmstadt. Festschrift. Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt, Darmstadt 2011, ISSN  0452 to 8514 , p 23 ( Online  ( Page no longer available , searching web archives )  Info: The link is automatically marked as defective Please review the link under. Instructions and then remove this notice. As PDF file, 4808 kB; accessed on April 3, 2013).