Gerd Dettmann

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Gerd Dettmann (born July 9, 1897 in Schwerin , † February 27, 1943 in Novorossiysk ) was a German art historian and curator at the Focke Museum in Bremen .

Life

Dettmann was a son of the Schwerin drawing teacher Ludwig Dettmann (1856-1937) and his wife Margarete (* 1867). He attended a high school. From 1917 to 1919 he had to serve as a soldier in the First World War . He then studied art history at the Humboldt University of Berlin , the University of Rostock and the University of Cologne and received his doctorate in 1922. phil. From 1919 to 1926 he was employed at the Mecklenburg State Museum .

In March 1926 Dettmann became an employee at the Focke Museum in Bremen. In 1927 he wrote a museum guide. He also published writings on glass painting , garden sculptures from the 18th century and the stone epitaphs in churches in Bremen. He wrote articles for Thieme-Becker's lexicon of artists and basic monographs on gold and silversmithing in Bremen and on the Ansgariikirche in Bremen . In 1933 he became deputy director of the Focke Museum and in 1939 curator at the museum. He died as a soldier in the USSR in World War II .

Fonts

  • Old inns and guild houses in Lower Saxony. Angelsachsenverlag, Bremen 1924.
  • Johann Joachim Busch. The builder of Ludwigslust. Carl Hinstorffs Verlag, Rostock around 1924.
  • Guide through the Focke Museum in Bremen. HM Hauschild, Bremen 1927.
  • About Bremen stained glass in the Focke Museum. In: Writings of the Bremen Scientific Society, Series D: Special publication on the reopening of the Focke Museum. Bremen 1928, pp. 51-68.
  • 18th century stone sculptor from Bremen. In: Annual publication of the Focke Museum 1929. Bremen 1929, pp. 103–123.
  • [with Albert Schröder:] The Bremen gold and silversmiths. In: Writings of the Bremen Scientific Society, Series A, Issue 7, Bremen 1931.
  • An 18th century sculpture workshop in Schwerin. In: Mecklenburgische Zeitung , April 10, 1933, No. 84.
  • The Ansgariikirche in Bremen. Bremen 1934.
  • Local antiquities from historical times. The harvest of recent Bremen soil and Weser finds. In: Bremen Christmas leaves. Ed .: Historical Society of Bremen. Issue 7. Verlag Geist, Bremen 1937.
  • The stone epitaphs of the Bremen churches and the br. Late Renaissance and Baroque sculpture. In: Annual journal of the Focke Museum. Bremen 1939.

literature

  • Siegfried Fliedner: Dettmann, Gerd. In: Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Ed .: Historical Society Bremen, State Archives Bremen. Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 110 (column 1) to p. 112 (column 1).
  • Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003. ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 2072 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mecklenburg-Schwerin, census 1900 - Ostorf / Schwerin - counting cards, people present / housekeeping. Digital copies at familysearch.org :
    ( Housekeeping ), ( Ludwig Dettmann ), ( Margarete Dettmann ), ( Gerd Dettmann )
  2. ^ Gerd Dettmann , entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Dettmann, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and curator at the Focke Museum in Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1943
Place of death Novorossiysk