Günther Grundmann

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Günther Grundmann (born April 10, 1892 in Hirschberg , Riesengebirge , Province of Silesia , † June 19, 1976 in Hamburg ) was a German art historian , museum director and curator .

Life

After graduating from high school in his hometown in 1912, Grundmann studied art history at the University of Munich with Heinrich Wölfflin and Paul Frankl, among others . In addition to his studies, he learned painting at the Walter Thor painting school and from 1913 attended the Royal School of Applied Arts , where he took the writing class with Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke and the furniture design class with Richard Riemerschmid . When war broke out in 1914, he first returned to Hirschberg and then continued studying art history at the University of Breslau , which he completed in 1916 with a doctorate. phil. graduated from Bernhard Patzak .

From 1919 to 1932 Grundmann was a teacher for art history at the wood carving school Bad Warmbrunn and honorary administrator of the "Hausfleißverein", an association for Silesian handicraft. From 1932 he was the successor of Ludwig Burgemeister provincial curator for Lower Silesia in Breslau. At the same time he was a member of the Historical Commission for Silesia . In 1938 he was appointed professor at the Technical University in Breslau .

In 1935 he reviewed a bust of the Führer of the sculptor friend Theodor von Gosen . After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, Grundmann was active in the annexed areas and published a book on German art in "liberated Silesia". In 1940 he became a member of the NSDAP . Towards the end of the Second World War , his tasks also included the confiscation and storage of "bomb-threatened art objects" from Berlin and Brandenburg.

After his escape in 1945, he was initially director of the art collections of the Veste Coburg from 1947 to 1950.

In 1950 he came to Hamburg, where from 1950 to 1959 he was monument conservator for the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and, as the successor to Hubert Stierling, director of the Altona Museum . From 1951 to 1959 he was also chairman of the "Association of State Monument Preservators in the Federal Republic of Germany". From 1962 to 1972 he was chairman of the board of the "Kulturwerk Schlesien".

In Hamburg, Grundmann's work as a monument conservationist after 1945 required completely different monument conservation concepts compared to his work before 1945: Silesia as a landscape with a rich sacred and secular heritage dating back to the Middle Ages, on the one hand, and Hamburg as a Hanseatic city , mainly from the 19th and early on the other 20th century buildings suffered severe destruction during the war. Whereas in Silesia conservation was the main requirement, in Hamburg rebuilding, reconstruction and additions proved to be inevitable.

Medal portrait

Publications (selection)

  • The bust of the Führer in the University of Breslau , in: Der Oberschlesier 1935, No. 7, p. 371f.
  • Charles XII. of Sweden and the grace churches in Hirschberg and Landeshut. In: Silesia. A quarterly for art, science and folklore. Volume 9, 1964, pp. 14-25.
  • The Darmstadt Madonna . Eduard Roether, Darmstadt 1959. 2nd expanded edition: The Darmstadt Madonna. The path of fate of the famous painting by Hans Holbein dJ Eduard Roether, Darmstadt 1972
  • The Warmbrunn wood carving school in the Giant Mountains. Delp Verlag, Munich 1968.
  • Art walks in Silesia. Collected essays from the Silesian years 1917-1945. Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottl. Korn, Munich 1966.
  • Art walks in the Giant Mountains. Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottl. Korn, Munich 1969 [fundamental work, obsolete in individual questions by recent research].
  • Baroque churches and monasteries in Silesia. Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottl. Korn, Munich 2nd edition 1971.
  • Years of reflection. Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottl. Korn, Munich 1972 [partly Autobiography, otherwise report of visits to castles during the time as niederschles. Provincial Curator].
  • Places of remembrance. Monuments tell Silesian history. Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottl. Korn, Munich 2nd edition 1975.
  • Castles, chateaus and manor houses in Silesia. Frankfurt / M. (Architectural and art monuments in Eastern Europe)
    • Vol. 1. The medieval castle ruins, castles and residential towers. 1982
    • Vol. 2. Castles and fortresses Renaissance houses. 1987 [factual, discontinued edition].
  • with Wulf Schadendorf : Schlesien , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1962
  • Hirschberg. In: Hugo Weczerka (Ed.): Schlesien. 2nd Edition. Stuttgart 2003, pp. 189-193.

family

Grave Günther Grundmann , Ohlsdorf cemetery

Günther Grundmann was married to Elfriede Niepold since 1916. The marriage had a daughter and the future architect Friedhelm Grundmann .

Günther Grundmann was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, grid square Q 10 (south of Chapel 1).

Honors

literature

  • Joachim Gerhardt: Günther Grundmann 1892–1976. In: Baltic Studies . Volume 62 NF, 1976, pp. 90-91.
  • Bernhard Stasiewski: Günther Grundmann – life and work 1892–1976. In: Journal for East Research. Volume 26, 1977, pp. 1-17.
  • Joachim Gerhardt, Werner Gramberg, Peter Hirschfeldt, Gerhard Wietek (eds.): Preserving and shaping. Festschrift for Günther Grundmann's 70th birthday. Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1962.
  • Hamburgische Biografie , Volume VI, Göttingen 2012, pp. 114–116

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fifty Years of the Historical Commission for Silesia . In: Yearbook of the Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau Volume 17, 1972, list of members p. 414.
  2. ↑ Jakob Michelsen: From Breslau to Hamburg. Ostforscher at the historical seminar of the University of Hamburg after 1945 , in: Rainer Hering, Rainer Nicolaysen (Hrsg.): Lebendige Sozialgeschichte. Commemorative publication for Peter Borowsky . Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-531-13717-4 , p. 674.
  3. ↑ Heino Maedebach: Günther Grundmann. Director of the art collections of the Veste Coburg from 1947–1950. In: Schlesien 17, 1972, pp. 51-52.
  4. ^ Gerhard Wietek : Günther Grundmann and the Altonaer Museum. In: Schlesien 17, 1972, pp. 53-56
  5. ^ Walter Baum: The medals and plaques of Cirillo dell'Antonio. A South Tyrolean carver and medalist in the Giant Mountains . Verlag Delp, Munich 1975, ISBN 3768901386 and ISBN 9783768901383 , p.
  6. ↑ Celebrity Graves
personal data
SURNAME Grundmann, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Hirschberg , Giant Mountains , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1976
Place of death Hamburg