Günter Neumann (art historian)

Günter Neumann (born July 5, 1912 ; † May 23, 1941 in Crete ) was a German art historian .

Life

Günter Neumann studied from 1931 to 1937 at the universities of Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt am Main and received his doctorate in 1937 under Hans Jantzen at the University of Munich with a thesis on Balthasar Neumann's designs for the Neresheim Abbey Church . He then moved to the TH Aachen as an assistant.

From autumn 1938 he received a scholarship from the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, where he worked on the architectural work of Francesco Borromini (unprinted manuscript in the Bibliotheca Hertziana).

At the beginning of the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and fell on Crete in May 1941 .

plant

Günter Neumann was a profound expert on Italian and German baroque architecture . Its importance lies in the fundamental representation of the art-historical connections between the vaulted architecture of Guarino Guarini , Johann Lucas von Hildebrandts and Balthasar Neumanns , which he summarized in the work on the abbey church in Neresheim, published posthumously in 1947.

Fonts

• Balthasar Neumann's designs for the Neresheim Abbey Church. (Diss.phil. University of Munich, 1937), Munich-Pasing 1942 (entered as part II in the overall work on Neresheim (Munich-Pasing 1947))
• Neresheim. (edited by Hans Jantzen ). Munich-Pasing 1947
• The design of J. Michael Fischer's central buildings and their relationship to Italy. (unfinished article for the planned Hans Jantzen 1941 commemorative publication), in: Münchner Jahrbuch der bildende Kunst, Third Series, Vol. II, 1951, pp. 238–244 (full text: http://www.digizeitschriften.de/dms/img /? PPN = PPN523132190_1951_2 & DMDID = DMDLOG_0017 )