Ernst Schlee (art historian)

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Ernst Riewert Schlee (born January 5, 1910 in Heide , Holstein , † March 26, 1994 in Schleswig ) was a German art historian and museum director .

Life

Born in Heider Ernst Schlee, after graduating from high school , he studied art history , philosophy , German and folklore at the universities of Marburg , Vienna , Berlin and Kiel . In 1934 he received his doctorate from the University of Kiel with a dissertation under Arthur Haseloff on The Iconography of the Paradise Rivers.

In the autumn of 1934 Schlee took part in an ethnological course at the "Baltic Institute" at the Nordic Museum , Stockholm , and got to know the important Swedish folk scholars Sigurd Erixon (1888–1968) and Sigfrid Svensson (1901–1984) who had a lasting impact on him . Ernst Schlee then worked on a study of Schleswig-Holstein's art history . In addition, he put himself in the service of the " NS cultural community " for about two years , helping to set up an "art ring" and organize exhibitions. According to his own statement, the goal was u. a. to show living Schleswig-Holstein artists also in the provinces. In the years before 1939 Schlee was also head of the NSDAP district culture office in Kiel . As such, in a speech at the inauguration of the folkish wall painting by the local artist Gerhart Bettermann, which culminated in a “Führer front wall” in the hall of the then Kappelner town hall, this was “exemplary”. In 1984 Schlee commented on his role in the time of National Socialism in a long essay .

In 1936 Ernst Schlee was appointed lecturer for "German Folk Art" with special consideration of the relations to the Scandinavian north at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel. Until 1939 he held lectures and exercises on folklore topics at the art history seminar. After the dissolution of the " NS cultural community ", Schlee received scholarships from the University of Kiel, which were connected with a habilitation project on the "development of the farmhouse in Schleswig-Holstein". At least in March 1937 he was still head of the NSDAP district culture office in Kiel. Finally, on October 1, 1939, Schlee became a "scientific assistant" at the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum in Kiel. In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . The habilitation thesis remained unfinished.

After military service and imprisonment, he resumed his work at the museum in 1948. Initially as a "scientific assistant" he was commissioned to organize the relocation of the museum to Gottorf Castle in Schleswig . In the summer of 1948, the evacuated collections were transported to Schleswig. In 1949 Schlee was appointed museum director. In 1950 the house was reopened as the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum in Gottorf Castle.

Ernst Schlee expanded the state museum's collection concept to include 20th century art. From 1950 he published the yearbooks of the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum ( Art in Schleswig-Holstein ). Another focal point was folklore: in 1957, after the last traditional stocks of equipment for field, house and farm management were replaced by products from the industrial age in the economic boom , Schlee initiated the Schleswig-Holstein national history survey . On the island of Föhr in 1954 he tried out the methods of such a comprehensive inventory. With his basic work, he provided the material for folklore research into everyday history , as it was u. a. was continued by Günter Wiegelmann , as well as for a historical image science .

After it was founded in 1957, Ernst Schlee was a member of the Advisory Board of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation . In 1968 Schlee received an honorary professorship from the state of Schleswig-Holstein . In 1979 Schlee was awarded the City of Kiel's Culture Prize. Schlee was second chairman of the German Society for Folklore until 1970 . From 1975 he lived in retirement and continued to work in research until shortly before his death.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The iconography of the rivers of Paradise . Dieterich, Leipzig 1937.
  • Schleswig-Holstein ( German folk art series ). Böhlau, Weimar 1939.
  • The chapel of Gottorp Castle . Wolff, Flensburg 1952.
  • Schleswig-Holstein folk life in old pictures . Wolff, Flensburg 1963.
  • The Schleswig-Holstein State Museum (= museums of cultural history in Germany, vol. 2). Cram, de Gruyter & Co., Hamburg 1963.
  • Landscape painter on Schleswig-Holstein's coasts . Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens, Heide in Holstein 1975, ISBN 3-8042-0150-4 .
  • Cultural history of Schleswig-Holstein town halls . Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens, Heide in Holstein 1976, ISBN 3-8042-0164-4 .
  • A picture book of cultural history from old Kiel . Mühlau, Kiel 1977, ISBN 3-87559-028-7 .
  • Folk art in Germany. Broadcasting, templates, sources . Callwey, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7667-0440-0 .
  • Old forge in Schleswig-Holstein . Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens, Heide in Holstein 1979, ISBN 3-8042-0227-6 .
  • Personal impressions from art life in the provinces 1920-1937. A contribution also to the situation of the fine arts in the Third Reich . In: Nordelbingen . Contributions to the history of art and culture in Schleswig-Holstein , vol. 53 (1984), pp. 169–196.
  • Scherrebeker tapestries (= art in Schleswig-Holstein, vol. 26). Wachholtz, Neumünster 1984, ISBN 3-529-02542-9 .
  • The painter Oluf Braren , 1787−1839 . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 1986, ISBN 3-88042-313-X .
  • Illustrations for the works of Theodor Storm . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 1987, ISBN 3-8042-0422-8 .
  • The Gottorf globe Duke Friedrich III. Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 1991, ISBN 3-8042-0524-0 .
  • Christian Carl Magnussen . An artist's fate from the imperial era . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 1991, ISBN 3-88042-577-9 .

literature

  • Hermann August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German Who's Who , Volume 18. Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1975, ISBN 3-795-02003-4 , p. 920.
  • Bernward Deneke: In memory of Ernst Riewert Schlee . In: Zeitschrift für Volkskunde , vol. 91 (1995), pp. 101-104.
  • Joachim Kruse: Ernst Schlee. In: Nordelbingen. Contributions to the art and cultural history of Schleswig-Holstein. Vol. 63, 1994, pp. 7-11.
  • Harm-Peer Zimmermann: From the sleep of reason. German Folklore at Kiel University from 1933 to 1945 . In: Hans-Werner Prahl (ed.): Uni-Formierung des Geistes. University of Kiel under National Socialism , Vol. 1 (= publications of the Advisory Board for the History of the Labor Movement and Democracy in Schleswig-Holstein, Vol. 16). Schmidt & Klaunig, Kiel 1995, ISBN 3-89029-967-9 , pp. 171-274.
  • Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Vol. 8. Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 , p. 659.
  • Carsten Fleischhauer: A carriage for the Olympics - On the history of the State Museum since 1878 . In: Kirsten Baumann, Gabriele Wachholtz (eds.): Best friends. Artwork for Gottorf Castle . Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation, Gottorf Castle, Schleswig 2016, ISBN 978-3-9815806-5-5 , pp. 18–35.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Schlee: Personal impressions from art life in the provinces 1920-1937. A contribution also to the situation of the fine arts in the Third Reich. In: Nordelbingen. Vol. 53, 1984, pp. 169-196, here: p. 185.
  2. ^ Special print of the Kappelner Schleiboten from March 8, 1937 on the “Inauguration of the newly designed town hall hall” in Kappeln . Schlees’s speech is announced on page two with the following text: “After the mayor’s speech, the head of the NSDAP's Gau culture office spoke. Dr. Schlee "
  3. ^ Ernst Schlee: Personal impressions from art life in the provinces 1920-1937. A contribution also to the situation of the fine arts in the Third Reich . In: Nordelbingen . tape 53 , 1984, pp. 169-196 .
  4. ^ Special print of the Kappelner Schleiboten from March 8, 1937 on the “Inauguration of the newly designed town hall hall” in Kappeln . Schlees’s speech is announced on page two with the following text: “After the mayor’s speech, the head of the NSDAP's Gau culture office spoke. Dr. Schlee "
  5. ↑ Bernward Deneke: In memory of Ernst Riewert Schlee . In: Zeitschrift für Volkskunde , vol. 91 (1995), pp. 101-104, here p. 101.
  6. ^ Carsten Fleischhauer: A carriage for the Olympics. On the history of the State Museum since 1878 . In: Kirsten Baumann, Gabriele Wachholtz (ed.): Best friends. Artwork for Gottorf Castle . Schleswig 2016, p. 18-35 .
  7. ↑ a b Bernward Deneke: In memory of Ernst Riewert Schlee . In: Zeitschrift für Volkskunde , vol. 91 (1995), pp. 101-104, here p. 102.
  8. ↑ Bernward Deneke: In memory of Ernst Riewert Schlee . In: Zeitschrift für Volkskunde , vol. 91 (1995), pp. 101-104, here p. 103.
  9. ↑ Joachim Kruse: Ernst Schlee. In: Nordelbingen. Contributions to the art and cultural history of Schleswig-Holstein. Vol. 63, 1994, p. 7.
  10. ↑ Honorary title "Professor" . In: schleswig-holstein.de . Archived from the original on March 22, 2015. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Schlee, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlee, Ernst Riewert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, museum director and translator
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Heath , Holstein
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1994
Place of death Schleswig