Ernst Günther Grimme
Ernst Günther Grimme (born January 14, 1926 in Aachen ; † December 11, 2003 there ) was a German art historian , Aachen museum director and honorary professor .
Live and act
The son of the art historian, classical philologist , Germanist and local researcher Gustav Grimme and grandson of the writer and local poet Friedrich Wilhelm Grimme was called up after his school days for military service in the Second World War , which ended for him in a POW camp of the Americans.
He then completed his studies of art history , archeology and German studies in Bonn and Cologne from 1947 to 1954 . He completed his doctorate in philosophy with a dissertation on Hans von Reutlingen with Hermann Schnitzler .
Grimme taught art history at the Werkkunstschule Aachen from 1951 until 1958 . A year later, the Suermondt Ludwig Museum hired him as a research assistant and promoted him to director in 1966. Later he was appointed director of the city museums of Aachen from 1979 to 1990. In the meantime, in 1983 the Institute for Art History at RWTH Aachen University gave him a teaching position, and on July 29, 1988 Grimme was appointed honorary professor for museum studies.
Grimme dedicated himself to medieval art and its connection with contemporary art . As museum director he was responsible for the exhibitions and the expansion of the Aachen museums and the scientific research of their collections. The donations from the collector couple Peter and Irene Ludwig meant that Grimme initiated an extension of the name of the Suermondt Museum in the 1970s, which was then given the name Suermondt-Ludwig Museum since 1977 . However, he was unable to plan a new museum building around 1978/79 on Monheimsallee. Instead, he was entrusted with the execution of the extension of the Suermondt Ludwig Museum from 1985 onwards. The opening took place under his successor Ulrich Schneider.
The connection between old and modern architecture reflects one of the basic ideas of Grimmes activity as museum director. He has also been interested in classical music since his youth . There was a grand piano in his library, but a war wound in his hand had prevented his profession as a pianist.
Ernst Günther Grimme died on December 11, 2003 and found his final resting place on Westfriedhof II in Aachen.
Honors
For Adam C. Oellers , who worked as curator with Grimme for 20 years , Grimme is considered one of the most important teachers in relation to a comprehensive aesthetic view of realistic art objects. The Aachen Suermondt-Ludwig Museum owes its reputation to Grimme as the most important sculpture collection of medieval works in the German art landscape. It was also Grimm's intention to illustrate the Lower, Middle and Upper Rhine, Bavarian, Swabian, East and North German style of carving.
In 1986 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon for his various services . The German National Library has 59 of his publications .
Publications (selection)
- 1951 The Hubert Lüttgens collection
- 1957 Aachen goldsmithing in the Middle Ages
- 1959 European painting in the Middle Ages
- 1965 Charlemagne in his city
- 1965 The Lukasmadonna and the pectoral cross of Charlemagne
- 1966 German Madonnas
- 1968 Our Lady, the Image of Mary in Medieval and Renaissance Painting
- 1968 The Holy Cross of Engelberg
- 1972 Goldsmithing in the Middle Ages
- 1973 The Aachen Cathedral Treasure
- 1973 Pieter Brueghel the Elder
- 1974 Jan Vermeer van Delft
- 1975 art travel guide Belgium
- 1979 Karl Schneiders ( monograph )
- 1980 The History of Occidental Illumination
- 1983 Antonio Máro (monograph)
- 1984 The Gospel Book of Otto III. in the Aachen Cathedral Treasure
- 1985 Bronze sculptures from the Middle Ages
- 1989 The Evangelistar von Groß St. Martin
- 1994 The Aachen Cathedral , architecture and equipment .
- 1996 Aachen City Hall
- 1996 Church treasures of the former abbey church of St. Johann Baptist and the parish church of St. Michael in Aachen- Burtscheid
- 1997 Gustav Grimme - Memories in Aachen
- 1999 Hans von Reutlingen "golsmit zo aach"
- 2000 Aachen Cathedral
- 2001 The golden cathedral of the Ottonians
- 2002 The Karlsschrein and the Marienschrein in Aachen Cathedral
Organized exhibitions (selection)
- 1958 Our Lady
- 1962 The great centuries of goldsmithing in Aachen
- 1962 From image to sign, exhibition of the Felix Pelzer collection
- 1965, 1973, 1981 Karl Fred Dahmen
- 1967 Karl Otto Götz
- 1973 Ewald Mataré
- 1978 Douglas Swan
- 1980 Klaus Fußmann
- 1982, 1987 Arnulf Rainer
- 1984 From Watteau to Renoir
- 1985 Joseph Beuys
- 1987 Dieter Krieg
- 1989 Barbara Heinisch
literature
- Literature by and about Ernst Günther Grimme in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ernst Günther Grimme. In: Rheinische Heimatpflege . Vol. 28, No. 2, 1991, ISSN 0342-1805 , pp. 146-147.
- Adam C. Oellers : Museum director a. D. Prof. Dr. Ernst Günther Grimme (1926–2003). An obituary. In: Aachener Kunstblätter . Volume 63, pp. 2003-2005.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gustav Grimme wrote the treatise on the shooting scene for the Aachen Millennium Exhibition . He headed this exhibition department and helped museum director Felix Kuetgens with the Aachen goldsmithing department . Official guide through the historic millennium exhibition in Aachen May to August 1925. La Ruelle , Aachen, 1925, p. 67 ff.
- ↑ RWTH teaching staff .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Grimme, Ernst Günther |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian, museum director, honorary professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1926 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |
DATE OF DEATH | December 11, 2003 |
Place of death | Aachen |