Gustav Darr

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Gustav Darr (* before 1890, † after 1937) was a German architect , draftsman , construction officer and monument conservator , who was provincial conservator of the province of Hanover for a few months in 1937 .

Life

In autumn 1914, Gustav Darr passed the second state examination and was appointed government master builder ( assessor in the public building administration). In the last year of the war, 1918, he was one of a "number of outstanding architects (who) were busy with drawing photographs of architectural monuments " in the German Empire , with Darr operating from Hanover .

During the Weimar Republic , Darr made drawings and architectural illustrations signed by him , for example for the article Streets and Houses in Old Hanover , which was published in several parts by the archivist Karl Friedrich Leonhardt in the Hannoversche Geschichtsbl Blätter .

In the foreword to issue 2 of the series Die Kunstdenkmale der Stadt Hannover from 1932, the monument conservator Arnold Nöldeke wrote, among other things, about Gustav Darr: “Most of the graphic recordings are made in collaboration with State Building Officer Darr; Numerous final drawings come from his hand ; His multiple advice, moreover, obliges the processor to thank him very much “.

In April 1937 Gustav Darr was appointed provincial curator. But in September of the same year he was " suspended from duty for homosexual acts ". Hermann Deckert was initially appointed as his successor in the management of the (later) Lower Saxony monument preservation , and from July 1939 then officially.

Until recently, Gustav Darr was " not even mentioned in the publications on the history of monument preservation in Lower Saxony".

Archival material

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Art Chronicle and Art Market. Weekly for connoisseurs and collectors , vol. 29, 1918, preview of Google books
  2. ↑ a b c d e Stefanie Lindemeier: Studies on the history of restoration of medieval vault and wall paintings in the area of ​​today's Lower Saxony. Presentation of historical methods, techniques and materials. Dissertation, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, 2008, pp. 44–52, here p. 44 f. ( online ( Memento of July 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) as a PDF document )
  3. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 24, 1914, No. 91 (from November 14, 1914) ( online ), p. 629 (note on passing the exam in the “Official Communications” section).
  4. ↑ Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , 29th year 1926, pp. 1–128 (text), here for example panel III (illustration for p. 28).
  5. ^ Arnold Nöldeke: The art monuments of the city of Hanover, part 1, monuments of the "old" city area of ​​Hanover (= The art monuments of the province of Hanover , volume 1, issue 2, part 1) Hanover 1932. (Reprint: Verlag Wenner, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151-1 ), p. III ff. (Preface), here p. IV.
personal data
SURNAME Darr, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, construction officer and preservationist
DATE OF BIRTH before 1890
DATE OF DEATH after 1937