Eugen Gradmann

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Eugen Gradmann (born December 13, 1863 in Lauffen am Neckar , † April 26, 1927 in Stuttgart ) was a German pastor , art historian and monument conservator .

life and work

Eugen Gradmann was the son of the businessman Gustav Adolf Gradmann (1831–1907) and older brother of the later botanist and geographer Robert Gradmann (1865–1950). Like his brother, he studied theology at the Evangelical Abbey and the University of Tübingen after attending school in Stuttgart . Both brothers were avid hikers with a sense of scenic beauty. During their studies both became members of the Roigel Royal Society in Tübingen . They even married two sisters, Emma and Julie Tritschler. Gradmann had two children, Gertrud, later married. Kauffmann (1890-1965) and Walter (1893-1914). 1886 put Eugen degree man from the first theological service examination, 1888 second, 1887, he was with a thesis on St. Mary's Church in Reutlingen for Dr. theol. PhD. After working in Eningen , Gronau , Schramberg , Welzheim and Michelbach am Wald , he was pastor in Neuenstein , Hohenlohe from 1889 , and in Dettingen an der Erms from 1896 . In addition to his pastoral work, he researched the art history of his home in Württemberg. He published the results of this activity between 1887 and 1914 in numerous art-historical and regional studies.

In 1898 he was appointed as the successor to Eduard Paulus as state curator and chairman of the antiquities collection in Stuttgart . In his function as the highest monument conservationist in Württemberg, he continued the series of art and antiquity monuments in the Kingdom of Württemberg , which his predecessor had begun . He came into close contact with the State Committee for Monument Preservation, founded in 1908, and the Württemberg Association for Heritage Protection, founded in 1909 . In his work "Heimatschutz und Landschaftspflege" (1910) he tried "to point beyond new and old romantic endeavors towards healthy realism, and via sterile negation and rigid conservatism towards positive artistic creation". In 1920 he retired due to illness.

Publications (selection)

  • History of Christian Art. Verlag der Vereinsbuchhandlung, Calw / Stuttgart 1902, DNB 996683925 (IV, 616 pages).
  • The farmhouse in Württemberg. In: Association of German Architects and Engineers' Associations (ed.): The farmhouse in the German Empire and in its border areas. Kühtmann, Dresden 1906; various reprints, most recently by Bechtermünz, Augsburg 2000, ISBN 3-8289-2362-3 .
  • The art and antiquity monuments of the city and the Oberamt Schwäbisch-Hall . Paul Neff Verlag, Esslingen a. N. 1907, OCLC 31518382 ( archive.org ).
  • Homeland security and landscape conservation. Strecker & Schröder, Stuttgart 1910.
  • About garden art and monument preservation. Lecture by Prof. Gradmann - Stuttgart on the 11th day for the preservation of monuments in Danzig 1910 (= leaflet on the culture of expression of the Dürerbund. No. 78). Callwey, Munich 1911; 2nd edition, ibid. 1922, DNB 580006816 .
  • with Hans Christ , Hans Klaiber: Art walks in Württemberg and Hohenzollern. Matthaes, Stuttgart 1914 Internet Archive .

literature

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Remarks

  1. ^ Wulf Kirsten : Foreword. In: Ulrich Keicher (Ed.): Christian Wagner. A world of a nameless one. The poetic work (= publications of the German Academy for Language and Poetry, Darmstadt . Volume 80). Wallstein, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89244-661-X , p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Gradmann, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor, art historian and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauffen am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1927
Place of death Stuttgart