Ernst Gall

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Ernst Gall

Ernst Emil Max Gall (born February 17, 1888 in Danzig ; † August 5, 1958 in Munich ) was a German art historian and monument conservator .

Life

Ernst Gall visited the Prince Otto High School in Wernigerode and studied from 1907 first two semesters Law at the University of Grenoble and the Sorbonne . From 1908 he studied art history at the University of Berlin . Heinrich Wölfflin and Adolph Goldschmidt were among his teachers . In 1915 he was at Goldschmidt at the University of Halle for Dr. phil. PhD .

After participating in the First World War in France, Gall got a job in the monument office in Halle . In 1920 he became a consultant at the Prussian Ministry of Culture in Berlin, responsible for Eastern issues, modern art, monument preservation and castles. In November 1929 he succeeded Paul Huebner as the director of the Prussian Administration of State Palaces and Gardens . In 1933/34 he was suspended for a year due to his refusal to join the NSDAP, but was then able to continue his office. In 1945 he gave up this post because of disagreements with the Soviet occupation forces. After a brief activity as a consultant for questions relating to art and the preservation of monuments at the American headquarters in Berlin, he was head of the museum department of the Bavarian Palace Administration from 1946 until his retirement in 1953 . In 1947 he became honorary professor for the history of architecture at the University of Munich .

The art historian Günter Gall (1924–2008) was his son.

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Ernst Gall's research area was the history of architecture .

In 1923 he founded the Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft , which he published until 1930. In 1932 he founded the magazine for art history with Wilhelm Waetzoldt . From 1934 Gall played a leading role in the Dehio Association in the revision of Georg Dehio's Handbook of German Art Monuments . After Otto Schmitt's death , from 1951 he continued as the chief editor of the Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte .

Publications (selection)

  • Studies on the relationship between the Lower Rhine and French architecture in the first half of the XIII. Century. Part 1. The lower Rhine apse structures based on the Norman model . Dissertation Halle 1915.
  • Lower Rhine and Norman architecture in the early Gothic era. Part I. The lower Rhine apse structures based on the Norman model . Reimer, Berlin 1915.
  • Gothic architecture in France and Germany. Part 1: The preliminary stages in northern France from the middle of the eleventh to the end of the twelfth century . Klinkhardt & Bierman, Leipzig 1925; 2nd supplemented edition 1955.
  • The Marienkirche in Gdansk . Castle near Magdeburg 1926 ( digitized version ).
  • Rothenburg ob der Tauber ( German Land - German Art ). Munich / Berlin 1955

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personal data
SURNAME Gall, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gall, Ernst Emil Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1958
Place of death Munich