Gustav Edmund Pazaurek

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Three pieces from Pazaurek's collection of "Taste Deviations"

Gustav Edmund Pazaurek , mostly Gustav E. Pazaurek (born May 21, 1865 in Prague , Austrian Empire , † January 27, 1935 in Altmannshofen ) was a Bohemian-German art historian .

Life

Pazaurek studied art history at the German University in Prague , where he received his doctorate in 1888, and from 1892 he worked as an employee at the North Bohemian Trade Museum in Reichenberg . In 1906 he went to Stuttgart as a director of the Landesgewerbemuseum , from 1913 to 1932 he was director of the arts and crafts department of this museum.

Pazaurek was a member of the German Werkbund, founded in 1907, and as such devoted himself with great zeal to the fight against "bad taste", which he also tried to categorize, from "patent humor" to "encroachment on decor". Among the material defects, Pazaurek ranked, for example, the "material pimpeleien" (objects made from unsuitable materials), and he also differentiated the main categories of construction defects, decor defects and kitsch. In the latter case, Pazaurek denounced, among other things, the "hero kitsch" and the "opulence". In connection with this, he founded the so-called "Kitsch Museum" in 1909 at his place of work in Stuttgart.

Pazaurek was also a specialist in Empire and Biedermeier glasses and porcelain.

Publications (selection)

  • Carl Screta 1610-1674. A contribution to the art history of the XVII. Century. Prague 1889 (dissertation, digitized version ).
  • Blacksmithing and locksmith work from the 13th to 18th centuries Century , 1895
  • Errors of taste in the arts and crafts. Leader of this department. in the Landes-Gewerbe-Museum Stuttgart , 1909
  • Good and bad taste in the arts and crafts , 1912 ( digitized version )
  • Glasses from the Empire and Biedermeier periods , 1923; 2nd edition, revised by Eugen von Philippovich . Klinkhardt and Biermann, Braunschweig 1976, ISBN 3-7814-0154-5 .
  • Contemporary art glasses , 1925
  • German faience and porcelain house painters (2 volumes), 1925
  • Meissen porcelain painting of the 18th century , 1927

literature

  • J. Butzke:  Pazaurek, Gustav Edmund. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 378.
  • Wilhelm von Bentin: Imaginative scholar - ideal museum man . In: Weltkunst 56, 1986, p. 873.
  • Dieter Schneider-Henn (Ed.): Gustav E. Pazaurek. The soul of the toothpick. A Bibliography on Applied Arts. Schneider-Henn, Munich 1986.
  • Lenka Tvrzníková: Gustav Edmund Pazaurek (1865-1935). Master's thesis Olmütz 2011 (pp. 205–262 complete list of publications, digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Pazaurek, Gustav Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pazaurek, Gustav E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian-German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1935
Place of death Altmannshofen