Gustav Barthel

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Gustav Barthel (born June 6, 1903 in Darmstadt ; † January 26, 1973 ) was a German art historian .

Life

After attending grammar school in Darmstadt until his Abitur in 1922, he first learned a commercial profession and also studied economics in Darmstadt and Leipzig . Under the influence of Wilhelm Pinder , he studied art history in Leipzig, Munich and Frankfurt from the winter semester 1925/26 . In February 1930 he received his doctorate in Frankfurt under Rudolf Kautzsch .

From 1930 he was an assistant at the Cologne Museum of Decorative Arts . In 1935 he began as a curator at the municipal art collections ( Silesian Museum for Applied Arts and Antiquities and Castle Museum) in Breslau , and from 1937 he succeeded Heinrich Kohlhaussen as its director. Barthel was a member of the NSDAP . After the German invasion of Poland , he and Kajetan Mühlmann wrote pamphlets in which it was argued that Poland was actually part of Germany. He also participated in art theft in Poland.

After the war, he was from 1952 until his retirement in 1969 as headmaster director of the Higher Technical School of the Graphic Industry in Stuttgart (from 1967 National Engineering School of Economics and Industrial Engineering of the graphic industry). In 1970 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

Gustav Barthel's grave, Pragfriedhof Stuttgart

Publications (selection)

  • Development history of Bamberg sculpture from the end of the 17th to the end of the 18th century. Dissertation. Cologne 1933 (with curriculum vitae).
  • Baroque churches in old Bavaria and Swabia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1938. 2nd edition 1941. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 1950, revised under the title Barockkirchen in Altbayern, Schwaben and in Switzerland. 1971.
  • with Kajetan Mühlmann: Krakow. Capital of the German general government Poland. Shape and artistic achievement of a German city in the east. Korn, Breslau 1940.
  • with Kajetan Mühlmann: Seized works of art in the Generalgouvernement. Korn, Breslau 1940 ( digitized version ).
  • The emanations of Veit Stoss's art in the east. Bruckmann, Munich 1944.
  • Queen of the place. The cityscape of Wroclaw in the artist's show. Wroclaw 1944.
  • History of German Art. Schwaab, Stuttgart 1949.
  • Ammergauer Lüftlmalereien (= large architectural monuments. 127). German art publisher, Berlin / Munich 1950.
  • The art guide. Buildings and monuments in the Federal Republic of Germany. Bertelsmann-Lesering, Gütersloh 1961.
  • with Ulrich CA Krebs (ed.): Das Druckwerk. Design and manufacture of books and printed advertising. 2 volumes. Berliner Union, Stuttgart 1963.
  • with Walter Stähle, Albert Rahmer: Form and Expression of Antiqua. State School of Engineering for Printing, Stuttgart Annual edition 1970. State School of Engineering for Printing, Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1970.
  • Could Adam write? World history of writing. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1972.

literature

  • Gustav Barthel 65 years. In: Usage graphics. 39, 1968, ISSN  0016-5743 , p. 68.
  • Obituary. In: Der Druckspiegel. 28, 1973, ISSN  0012-6500 , p. 51.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ The print mirror. 28, 1973, p. 51.
  2. ^ Birgitte Bönisch-Brednich: Folklore research in Silesia. A history of science (= series of publications by the Commission for German and Eastern European Folklore in the German Society for Folklore, Volume 68). Elwert, Marburg 1994, ISBN 3-7708-1041-4 , p. 158 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Barthel, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1973