Gerd Baier

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Gerd-Rainer Baier (born June 25, 1924 in Dresden ; † June 13, 2017 in Schwerin ) was a German art historian and monument conservator .

Life

Born in Dresden, Gerd Baier attended the Rudolf Steiner School there , which was closed in 1941, and graduated from high school in 1942. After participating in the war and being a prisoner of war, he worked for a short time in the school service and studied art history and classical archeology at the University of Leipzig from 1950 to 1954 . In the following years, Baier was significantly involved in the creation of the inventory of monuments for the island of Rügen , which was carried out under Walter Ohle . When the Schwerin branch of the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments of the German Democratic Republic was set up on March 1, 1956 , Gerd Baier was one of the first employees. He was later appointed Head of the Research and Documentation Department as Chief Conservator, a position he held until his retirement in 1995. In 1959, Gerd-Rainer Baier received his doctorate with his dissertation: Medieval wall and vault painting in Mecklenburg at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig.

Gerd Baier lived with his wife in Schwerin.

Awards

Works

Gerd Baier is the author of numerous publications on the history of art and the preservation of monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, a list of his writings from 1957 to 1989 can be found in the communications of the Institute for Preservation of Monuments - Arbeitsstelle Schwerin , No. 33/1989, pp. 805–808, afterwards appeared among others:

  • Knaur's cultural guide in color Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Droemer Knauer, Munich 1991.
  • German art monuments / Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Leipzig 1992.
  • Schwerin Cathedral. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 1994.
  • The architectural and art monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Western Pomerania coastal region. Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 1994.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The history of the Dresden Waldorf School ( memento of the original from February 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.waldorfschule-dresden.de.srv1.bk-provider.de
  2. ^ Horst Ende : Art and Monument Preservation in Mecklenburg. Dr. Gerd Baier on his 60th birthday. In: Communications from the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments - Arbeitsstelle Schwerin, No. 29 (1984), pp. 555–557.
  3. ^ Gerd Baier: From the state office to the state office. The state preservation of monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from 1946 to 1990. In: Mitteilungen des Institut für Denkmalpflege - Arbeitsstelle Schwerin, No. 29 (1984), p. 823 and p. 831.
  4. ↑ Profession from vocation. Meritorious monument conservator said goodbye. In: The rider. Vol. 2 (1995), Issue 1, p. 9.
  5. ^ Horst Ende: Art and Monument Preservation in Mecklenburg. Dr. Gerd Baier on his 60th birthday. In: Communications from the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments - Schwerin Laboratory, No. 29 (1984), p. 557.
  6. ↑ Personnel. In: Communications from the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments - Schwerin Laboratory, No. 33 (1989), p. 804.
personal data
SURNAME Baier, Gerd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baier, Gerd-Rainer (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 2017
Place of death Schwerin