Ernst Heinrich Buschbeck

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Ernst Heinrich Buschbeck (mostly Ernst H. Buschbeck , born January 7, 1889 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † May 13, 1963 in Boca do Inferno , Portugal ) was an Austrian art historian .

Life

Ernst Heinrich Buschbeck came from a family of Austrian officers. He attended the Schottengymnasium and began to study philosophy and law in Lausanne and Vienna and turned to studying history and art history in Berlin, Halle and Vienna. He received his doctorate in 1913 under Max Dvořák with a dissertation on French and Spanish sculpture in the 12th century. Buschbeck took part in the First World War as a cavalry officer from 1914 to 1918.

From 1919 he worked as a research assistant in the picture gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and in 1920 was appointed to the museum department of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education. He dealt with the processing of the museum holdings in the course of the dissolution of the Danube Monarchy and "successfully defended the ownership claims" of the Republic of Austria in the succession of Austria-Hungary against foreign claims. In 1923 he returned to the Kunsthistorisches Museum as a curator and rose continuously in the following years of the hierarchy of officials, in 1937 to custodian 1st class. He also worked in adult education in Vienna and wrote art reviews for the Neue Wiener Tagblatt . Buschbeck and Hans Tietze were co-founders of the “Society for the Promotion of Modern Art” in 1922, and he was involved in the Vienna Culture Association and in the Association for the Preservation of Monuments and Townscapes.

Buschbeck had come to terms with Austrofascism after 1934 , but was in opposition to the National Socialists, who took power in 1938 when Austria was annexed . Buschbeck did not return to Austria in June 1939 after a business trip to England. In London he joined the Free Austrian Movement and other initiatives of the Austrian emigrants and worked for the German-language program of the BBC.

After the war ended, he returned to the picture gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in February 1946 and became its director in 1949. In 1953 he was promoted to administrative director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. After his retirement in 1954 he was responsible for the transfer of the Czernin picture gallery to the Residenzgalerie in Salzburg and its repositioning as well as for the temporary repositioning of the Harrach picture gallery in the Palais auf der Freyung in Vienna.

As a pensioner, Buschbeck also worked as an art historical travel companion and died in an industrial accident in Portugal on the Boca do Inferno .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Pórtico de la Gloria of Sant Jago de Compostela. Contributions to the history of French and Spanish sculpture in the XII. Century . Bard, Vienna 1919
  • Early medieval art in Spain . Seemann, Leipzig 1923
  • Guide through the picture gallery . Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 1928

literature

  • Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . KG Saur, Munich 1999, pp. 83-86.
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Eds.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. KG Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 175.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wendland 1998, p. 83.
personal data
SURNAME Buschbeck, Ernst Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buschbeck, Ernst H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1963
Place of death Boca do Inferno