Günter Stein (art historian)

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Günter Stein (born February 14, 1924 in Berlin , † November 19, 2000 in Karlsruhe ) was a German art historian and a connoisseur of Upper Rhine building history.

Life

After a construction internship and apprenticeship as a bricklayer in Coburg and Berlin, Stein studied art history, classical archeology and history at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1946 . There he was in 1950 with the dissertation studies the German castle building the Romanesque period a doctorate and then worked as a research assistant at the Archaeological Institute in Berlin. For this he undertook, among other things, building surveys and excavations in the Spandau Citadel before he worked in various cities on behalf of the institute and the Koldewey Society . In 1962 he moved to the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Speyer . For this he was involved in excavations in the medieval Judenhof Speyer from 1965 to 1968 . At the same time he was responsible for medieval art and cultural history in the museum and began to expand the Jewish department in a targeted and sustainable manner. In 1969 he published the Judaica collection that had been created by then. Appointed chief curator of the museum in 1977, Stein was most recently its deputy director.

From 1975 Günter Stein held a teaching position for Upper Rhine building history at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and in 1980 he became an honorary professor at the Institute for Building History there .

In addition to his professional activity, Stein had been a member of the State Historical Association for the Mark Brandenburg since 1951 and its secretary from 1952 to 1960. In 1971 he received the Fontane plaque from this association.

Fonts (selection)

  • Medieval fortifications - castles and fortifications of modern times. In: Palatinate Atlas. Teilband 1, 1965, pp. 313-356 and pp. 48-49.
  • The Judaica of the Historisches Museum der Pfalz. In: Communications of the Historical Association of the Palatinate. 67, 1969, pp. 290-306.
  • Castles and palaces in the Palatinate. A manual. Weidlich, Frankfurt 1976, ISBN 3-8035-8356-X , 2nd improved edition 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1280-8 , paperback edition Droemer Knaur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-426-04405-6 .
  • with Friedrich Sprater : The Trifels. Historical Museum in the Palatinate, Speyer 1982.
  • Speyer - Judenhof and Judenbad (= large architectural monuments. Issue 238). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1996.

literature

  • Helmut Bernhard , Walter Ehescheid: Prof. Dr. Günter Stein, 02/14/1924–11/19/2000. In: Helmut Bernhard (Ed.): Archeology in the Palatinate. Annual report 2000. Leidorf, Rahden 2001, ISBN 3-89646-190-7 . P. 263.
  • Karl Rudolf Müller: A life for castles, theater, music, amphibians and golden eyes. An obituary for Professor Dr. Günter Stein. In: Speyer. Quarterly magazine of the Verkehrsverein 41, 1, 2001, pp. 59–62.
  • Otto Roller : In memoriam Professor Dr. Günter Stein. In: Pfälzer Heimat 52, 2001, pp. 36–37.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b blurb by Günter Stein: Castles and palaces in the Palatinate . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-426-04405-6 .
  2. ^ Jens Hoppe: Jewish history and culture in museums. On the non-Jewish museology of the Jewish in Germany (= international university publications. Volume 393). Waxmann, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8309-1178-5 , p. 129.
  3. ^ Jens Hoppe: Jewish history and culture in museums. On the non-Jewish museology of the Jewish in Germany (= international university publications. Volume 393). Waxmann, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8309-1178-5 , p. 15.
personal data
SURNAME Stein, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 2000
Place of death Karlsruhe