Georg Lill

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Georg Lill (born August 9, 1883 in Würzburg , † June 27, 1951 in Munich ) was a German art historian and monument conservator .

Live and act

Lill studied history, classical archeology, philosophy and theology at the University of Würzburg , from 1903 art history at the University of Munich , 1904/1905 in Berlin, then in Vienna. In 1907 he was in Munich with the thesis Hans Fugger and the art (1531-1598), a contribution to the history of the late Renaissance in Southern doctorate . From 1908 to 1910 Lill was employed in Munich at the General Conservatory of Art Monuments and Antiquities of Bavaria . Since 1911 Lill worked as a consultant for the Munich auction house Helbing and created around 50 catalogs there. By him to the prohibition in 1937 edited the journal Christian art he brought a contribution to the contemporary renewal of Christian art since the 1924th In 1919 Lill became an employee of the Bavarian National Museum . In 1924 he was appointed professor. In 1929 Lill became director of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . He held this position until his retirement in 1950. In this position he worked even under the difficult conditions of the war and post-war period until 1950. The broad historical basis of his art-historical studies and his orientation to the concept of monument Georg Dehios , such as that, proved its worth His comments on painting projects in Gößweinstein (1921), Bamberg and Mainz (1927), from his report on the history of monument preservation in Bavaria in 1932 and 1933, and from his ideas about reconstruction (1946). After 1945 Lill got involved in the reconstruction of the town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, which was partially destroyed in the war .

Memberships

Georg Lill was a member of the Roman-Germanic Commission and from 1924 to 1937 secretary of the German Society for Christian Art and editor of the journal Christian Art .

Fonts

Lill wrote six volumes of the series Kunstdenkmäler Bayerns in whole or in part . His publication Deutsche Plastik (1925) achieved an unusually high circulation of 300,000 copies. In 1922 he wrote a biography about the sculptor Max Heilmaier .

estate

Lills estate is in the State Archives in Würzburg .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ People - Biographies from Bavaria: Prof. Dr. Georg Lill , on the website of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art
  2. ↑ Brigitte Mr. Bach:  Lill, George. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 563 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Georg Lill - monument conservator, art connoisseur and consultant for the reconstruction of the city of Rothenburg www.rothenburg-unterm-hakenkreuz.de
personal data
SURNAME Lill, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1951
Place of death Munich