Fritz Traugott Schulz

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Fritz Traugott Schulz (born August 6, 1875 in Dahlhausen ad Ruhr ; died May 31, 1951 in Nuremberg ) was a German art historian , museum director and chief curator at the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg.

Act

Schulz attended the Royal High School in Duisburg until 1894 , before he went to Halle , according to his parents' wishes , to study Protestant theology there. In the summer semester of 1895 he moved to the University of Göttingen and, in addition to theological lessons, also attended a proseminar and lectures with the Germanist Moritz Heyne , so that he turned to German studies. He also took part in the Germanic and Romance seminars. In addition to German studies, he now studied modern art history and library science . In 1899 he was with Moritz Heyne with the dissertation Typical of the great Heidelberg song manuscript and related manuscripts by word and image, a Germanistic-antiquarian study for Dr. phil. PhD . From 1898 to 1899 he was assistant in the painting and engraving collection at the University of Göttingen and after graduating he went to the Provincial Museum in Hanover as an intern , where from 1900 he was involved in the inventory of art monuments in the Province of Hanover. From 1901 he began to work as an assistant for the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg and in 1906 he became chief curator of the cultural and art history collections. In 1918 he received the title of professor. He was also a member of the Association for History and the Albrecht Dürer Association as well as the head of the architecture committee. In 1928 he organized events for the year of Dürer.

On August 1, 1928, he was appointed director of the Nuremberg Municipal Art Collection, after having been temporarily in charge of this office since 1910. As part of the takeover by the Nazis , he was arrested on 22 March 1933 removed from office after his release and to take early retirement. In the meantime he wrote articles for the general encyclopedia of fine artists from antiquity to the present . It was only after the end of the Second World War that he was again entrusted with the management of the municipal art collections from 1948 to 1950.

Between 1904 and 1914, Schulz had made an outstanding contribution to the inventory of the Nuremberg old town houses, which he recorded both photographically and in writing.

Publications (selection)

  • The shotguns of the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg . With a foreword by Gustav von Bezold . In: Paul Heitz (Ed.): Einblattdrucke des Fifteenth Century . tape 13 . Strasbourg 1908 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
  • The St. George Church in Kraftshof . In: Studies on German Art History . Issue 107. JHE Heitz, Strasbourg 1909, OCLC 459156719 .
  • Guide through the art and cultural history collections of the Germanisches Museum . Germanisches Museum, Nuremberg 1925, OCLC 906454032 .
  • Theodor Hampe on his 60th birthday on January 28, 1926, 2nd director of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (=  indicator of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum ). Self-published by the Germanisches Museum, Nuremberg 1926, p. 1–2 , doi : 10.11588 / azgnm.1924.0.35755 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
  • The Germanic Museum from 1902–1927. Festschrift to celebrate its 75th anniversary (=  display of the Germanic National Museum ). Self-published by the Germanisches Museum, Nuremberg 1927, OCLC 215002089 .
  • Nuremberg's town houses and their furnishings . The milk market district (1909–1933). Book and art publisher Gerlach & Wiedling, Leipzig / Vienna 1934, OCLC 441785993 .

literature

  • Schulz, Fritz Traugott. In: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 627-630.
  • Michael Diefenbacher : Nuremberg artist lexicon. Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century . Ed .: Manfred H. Grieb. tape 3 : Pf-Z . Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-11763-3 , pp. 1398 .
  • Ruth Bach-Damaskinos,: Nuremberg's town houses. Photographs by Fritz Traugott Schulz, 1901–1926. Accompanying volume for the exhibition of the Nuremberg City Archives from December 19, 2012 to April 28, 2013 . Nuremberg City Archives, Neustadt an der Aisch 2013, ISBN 978-3-925002-91-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritz T. Schulz: Typical of the great Heidelberg song manuscript and related manuscripts by word and image, a Germanistic antiquarian study . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1901, p. 117 ( uni-heidelberg.de - also dissertation at the University of Göttingen 1899, with curriculum vitae).
  2. ^ Michael Diefenbacher : Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century . Ed .: Manfred H. Grieb. tape 3 : Pf-Z . Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-11763-3 , pp. 1398 .
personal data
SURNAME Schulz, Fritz Traugott
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulz, Fritz; Schulz, Ms. Tr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Dahlhausen
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1951
Place of death Nuremberg