Ernst Günter Troche

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Ernst Günter Troche (born September 26, 1909 in Stettin , † October 30, 1971 in Stockholm ) was a German art historian and museum director.

Troche studied art history in Munich and Vienna and received his doctorate in Munich in 1932. From 1932 to 1936 he worked at the Staatliche Museen Berlin , where he was in a relationship with the curator Ernst Friedrich Bange and befriended Christian Adolf Isermeyer and Jan Lauts .

From 1936 to 1938 he worked at the City Art Collections in Breslau and since 1938 at the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg . Since August 1945 he was the first post-war director of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. At the same time he became head of the collections of the city of Nuremberg (until 1948) and monument conservator of Middle Franconia . He was responsible for the reconstruction and reopening of the Germanic Museum after the war. In 1946 Troche was accepted into the Pegnese Flower Order . At the beginning of 1950 Troche went to the USA for personal reasons and in May 1951 informed the administrative board of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum that he would renounce the office of director.

He then worked as an art dealer in the USA and in 1956 became director of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts (AFGA) in San Francisco . He died on a study trip in Stockholm.

Publications (selection)

  • Giovanni Cariani. In: Yearbook of the Prussian Art Collections. Vol. 55, 1934, ISSN  0934-618X , pp. 97-125 (= dissertation).
  • Dutch painting of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Kurt Wolff, Berlin 1935.
  • Italian painting of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Kurt Wolff, Berlin 1936.

literature

  • Günther Schiedlausky : The time of reconstruction after the war. The museum under the direction of Ernst Günter Troche and Ludwig Grote. In: Bernward Deneke, Rainer Kahsnitz (Hrsg.): Das Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Nuremberg 1852–1977. Contributions to its history. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 1978, ISBN 3-422-00684-2 , pp. 263-312.
  • Clemens Wachter: Culture in Nuremberg 1945-1950. Nuremberg City Archives, Nuremberg 1999, ISBN 3-87432-136-3 , pp. 175-184. 190.452.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Sternweiler : Love. Research. Teaching. The art historian Christian Adolf Isermeyer (= Schwules Museum. Lebensgeschichten Vol. 4.) Verlag Rosa Winkel, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-86149-082-X , p. 34.
personal data
SURNAME Troche, Ernst Günter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Troche, E. Gunter (name in US)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1971
Place of death Stockholm