Günther Deneke

Johann Friedrich Günther Deneke (born September 13, 1882 in Magdeburg , † 1944 in Köslin ) was a German art historian and archivist .

He was the son of the businessman Max Deneke and attended the cathedral high school in Magdeburg up to Obersekunda. He then moved to the Princely High School in Wernigerode , where he received his school-leaving certificate in 1902. He then studied philosophy, classical philology and classical archeology at the universities of Tübingen, Leipzig and Halle.

From June 1905 to September 1906 he worked on the editorial team of the General Artists' Lexicon ( Thieme-Becker ) in Leipzig . Then he went on an educational trip through Germany, France, Belgium and England. In 1907 he continued studying art history at the University of Halle . In 1910 he moved back to his hometown Magdeburg.

He received his doctorate in 1911 at the University of Halle under Adolph Goldschmidt with a dissertation on the subject of Magdeburg sculptors of the High Renaissance and the Baroque and became archive and museum director (?) In Berlin .

In 1913 he took over the development of the first volume describing the architectural and art monuments of the city of Magdeburg on behalf of the Historical Commission for Saxony and Anhalt. There was a lengthy dispute in 1925/26 about the handover of the material collection, which did not appear in print.

After Wilhelm Herse moved to Wolfenbüttel, he took over the management of the princely library , one of the most important central German aristocratic libraries, and the archive in the orangery in Wernigerode . When the archive was closed due to the global economic crisis, he lost his job and went back to Berlin. In 1930 he had his glass collection auctioned in Berlin. In 1932/33 he ran a gallery in Berlin which also carried out art auctions. In 1939 he lived in Bad Doberan and in 1941/42 in Köslin .

He is the father of the conservationist and SPD politician Diether Deneke (1918–2002) and the journalist Volrad Deneke (1920–2006).

Publications

• Magdeburg visual artists before 1631 . In: History sheets for the city and state of Magdeburg . Volume 45, 1910, pp. 325-346
• Magdeburg sculptors of the High Renaissance and Baroque . Halle aS 1911 (= dissertation; digitized ).
• Contributions to the history of some of the old council families in Magdeburg. In: History sheets for city and country Magdeburg Volume . Volume 46, 1911, pp. 103-118
• Gothic wall paintings in the Badeleben village church . In: History sheets for city and country Magdeburg Volume . Volume 46, 1911, pp. 324-327
• Georg Broel . In: Exlibris - Book Art and Applied Graphics . Volume 22, 1912, Issue 3/4, pp. 97-101
• Corrections and additions to the 32nd issue of the architectural and art monuments of the Province of Saxony, County of Wernigerode . Self-published, 1925
• City of Wernigerode and the county of Wernigerode with its health resorts Ilsenburg and Schierke . Berlin-Halensee, Dari, 1926 (co-author)
• Brief systematic overview of the Princely Stolberg Library in Wernigerode . Wernigerode 1931
• The Princely Stolberg-Wernigerodesche Library . In: monthly sheet. Knowledge Supplement to the "Magdeburgische Zeitung" . Volume 73, 1931, pp. 33-35 and pp. 41-44
• Establishment of a country house in Petzow and contributions from other private property . Berlin 1932
• The Community. Paintings, sculptures, graphics, architecture, metalwork, 19 May - 18 June 1933 in the rooms of Dr. Günther Deneke Berlin W 9, Bellevuestrasse . Berlin 1933

Web links

• Literature by and about Günther Deneke in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birth register of StA Magdeburg-Altstadt, No. 2484/1882.
2. ↑ Death register StA Köslin, No. 565/1944.
3. ↑ Antiques from the art dealer A. van Waegeningh-Aretz Berlin, Glass Collection Archive Director AD Dr. Günther Deneke, Wernigerode: and other contributions (catalog no. 2037). Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin 1930 ( digitized version ).
4. ↑ Auction catalogs .