Friedrich Schreiber-Weigand
Friedrich Schreiber-Weigand (born September 17, 1879 in Chemnitz ; † July 10, 1953 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) was director of the City Art Museum in Chemnitz.
Schreiber was born the son of the painter and photographer Friedrich Julius Schreiber (1837–1890). He had been using the mother's name Weigand since 1918. From 1894 to 1900 he was at the teachers' seminars in Grimma and Rochlitz and until 1903 as an assistant teacher in Mittweida , then in Chemnitz. In 1911 he became honorary exhibition director of the Chemnitzer Verein Kunsthütte. From 1909 onwards, in addition to the collection of the Kunsthütte, the local history collection of the Chemnitz History Association, the collection of models, the collection of the Arts and Crafts Association and the natural science collection were presented to the public in the newly built König Albert Museum . Until 1933, Schreiber headed the exhibitions at the Kunsthütte, which focused heavily on contemporary art. With the 4th Graphic Exhibition of the German Association of Artists in 1912 a nationally significant art event took place there for the first time. In 1920, the city of Chemnitz began to manage its art possessions itself, Schreiber-Weigand was appointed director of the newly established Chemnitz City Art Collection and retired from school in 1922. Schreiber-Weigand collected works by well-known expressionists such as Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Max Pechstein, as well as Ernst Barlach, Carl Hofer, Oskar Kokoschka, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde and Otto Müller.
After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Schreiber-Weigand was one of the first German museum directors to be ousted. On June 15, 1945, the new city administration reinstated him as director of the Chemnitz art collections, at the same time as director of the Schloßbergmuseum and finally as director of the municipal museums. In the following years he took care of the reconstruction of the museum buildings, the reorganization of the collections and the rehabilitation of the artists who had been ostracized until 1945.
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Schreiber-Weigand in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gudrun Dudek: Friedrich Schreiber-Weigand . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
- Great Chemnitz
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schreiber-Weigand, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schreiber, Friedrich Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German museum director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1953 |
| Place of death | Chemnitz |