Günter Schade

Günter Walter Bruno Schade (born January 3, 1933 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) is a German art historian and museum director.

Life

Günter Schade studied art history and early Christian-Byzantine art at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1953 to 1957 with Richard Hamann , Leopold Giese , Edgar Lehmann , Willy Kurth and Klaus Wessel . From 1957 to 1959 he was a research assistant at the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg (Halle) and from 1959 to 1961 a research assistant at the Museum of German History in Berlin. In 1963 he received his doctorate at the University of Halle with a thesis on the development of the hall choir of the Brandenburg city parish churches as a bourgeois spatial form. From 1962 to 1983 he was director of the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , which he opened to the public again for the first time in 1963 after the war in Köpenick Palace . From 1974 to 1984 Schade taught at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . In 1979 he was awarded the facultas docendi and was appointed honorary lecturer for art history in 1980. From 1983 to 1992 Schade was General Director of the National Museums in Berlin.

In 1985 , Schade qualified as a professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. This was followed by an appointment as honorary professor for art history at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art. From 1992 to 1998 he was Deputy Director General of the State Museums of Prussian Cultural Heritage . During this time, the focus of his work was on the merging and reorganization of the National Museums in Berlin, which had been divided since 1945, under the umbrella of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation on the basis of the memorandum on the future locations and structure written in 1990 together with Wolf-Dieter Dube of the Berlin State Museums. In 1998 Schade retired.

Fonts

• Italian Renaissance furniture. State Museums zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin 1964.
• Köpenick Castle. A journey through the history of the Köpenick Castle Island. State Museums zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin 1964.
• German furniture from 7 centuries. Koehler and Amelang, Leipzig 1966, L. Schneider Verlag, Heidelberg 1966.
• Metal in handicrafts. Catalog book on the occasion of the centenary of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts, publisher and contributions, Staatl. Museums zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin 1978.
• German glass from the beginning to the Biedermeier period. Koehler and Amelang, Leipzig 1968.
• German goldsmithing. An overview of the art and cultural history development of the German gold and silversmith's art from its beginnings to the beginning of the 19th century. Koehler and Amelang Leipzig 1974, Dausien, Hanau 1976, ISBN 3-7684-1696-8 .
• Handicrafts from the Dürer period and the German Renaissance. Catalog book for the exhibition of the Kunstgewerbemuseum on the occasion of the artist's 500th birthday, publisher and contributions, Staatl. Museums in Berlin, Museum of Applied Arts, Berlin 1971.
• Berlin porcelain. On the art and cultural history of the Berlin porcelain factory in the 18th and 19th centuries. Koehler and Amelang, Leipzig 1978, Kaysersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-87405-170-6 .
• The Berliner Kunstgewerbemuseum in the past and present. Festschrift on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the reopening of the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Schloss Köpenick, publisher and contributions, Staatl. Museums zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin 1983.
• The Berlin Museum Island - destruction, rescue, reconstruction. Henschel, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-362-00160-2 .
• with Uwe Prell, Heinz Werner: Museums in Berlin and Brandenburg. FAB-Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-927551-48-1 .
• The Berlin State Museums - reunited for 25 years. Berliner Schriften zur Museumforschung, Volume 34, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz and Holy Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-9818033-8-9 .

Furthermore, contributions to the topics: Märkische brick architecture , applied art , history of the Berlin Museum Island , history of the GDR museum system, cultural goods relocated during the war (looted art) , reunification of the Berlin museums.

honors and awards

• 1976: Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
• 1978: Order of Merit for Polish Culture
• 1983: Appointment to the Upper Museum Council
• 1987: Goethe Prize of the City of Berlin, 2nd class
• 2000: Awarded the title of City Elder in Berlin
• 2009: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class

literature

• Christoph Left:  What a shame, Günter . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Dube, Günter Schade: Memorandum on the future locations and the structure of the National Museums in Berlin. September 1990, In: Jahrbuch Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Volume 27. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1990, pp. 37-66.