Erna von Watzdorf

Erna von Watzdorf (born February 15, 1892 in Dresden , † September 17, 1976 in Kassel ) was a German art historian .

Life

She comes from the originally Thuringian noble family von Watzdorf and was the daughter of the royal Saxon lieutenant general Hans von Watzdorf (1857–1931) and Louise Ebert (1867–1949). She remained unmarried.

Erna von Watzdorf was in 1923 at the University of Marburg Dr. phil. doctorate and became curator of the Historisches Museum Dresden . On September 1, 1946, she was dismissed without notice by the new rulers.

In the New Green Vault in Dresden, the cabinet is named after her, in which the Hutagraffe with the “ Dresden Green Diamond ” is exhibited. She was considered one of the best connoisseurs of the Augustan age in the Saxon capital and the most important chronicler of Johann Melchior Dinglinger (1664–1731), the goldsmith of the German Baroque .

Fonts

• The German woodcut in the 19th century , Marburg 1923 (= dissertation).
• with Erich Haenel : August the Strong. Art and Culture of the Baroque , Dresden 1933 (reprint: Verlag Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-8035-1091-0 ).
• Johann Melchior Dinglinger. The goldsmith of the German Baroque , 2 volumes, Berlin 1962
• The uncrowned queen , Stuttgart undated
• The bust of August the Strong in the Green Vault in Dresden . In: Zeitschrift für Kunstwissenschaft 19, 1965, pp. 55–62.
• The Dresden gemstone cutter Johann Christoph Huebner. Around 1665 to 1739 . In: Journal of the German Association for Art Science 24, 1972, p. 15ff.

literature

• Joachim Menzhausen : Erna von Watzdorf in memory . In: Dresdener Kunstblätter . tape 2 , 1978, ISSN  0418-0615 , p. 62-63 .

• Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses A volume 15, page 503, volume 71 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1979

Web links

• Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library