Hans Arnold Gräbke

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Hans Arnold Gräbke (born October 6, 1900 in Höxter ; † May 13, 1955 in Münster ) was a German art historian and museum director.

Life

Hans Arnold Gräbke was a son of the theologian Wilhelm Louis Oskar Gräbke. He studied art history, archeology and German and graduated from the University of Göttingen in 1923 . From 1923 to 1931 he worked as a research assistant for Karl Haberstock in Berlin and received his doctorate in Göttingen in 1928. After a traineeship at the Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck in 1931, he came to Rostock in 1932 , where he redesigned the Museum of Antiquities. After a stay in Rome from 1933 to 1934 at the German Historical Institute in Rome , Hans Arnold Gräbke became a research assistant at the Landesmuseum Münster in 1935 and museum director of the Rostock City Museum and the local antiquity collection in 1936. During the war, he and the archivist Elisabeth Schnitzler mainly dealt with the outsourcing and safeguarding of Rostock's cultural and archival goods. Gräbke reopened the museum in 1945.

In 1946 he was appointed museum director at the St. Anne's Museum in Lübeck (the Behnhaus was still used by the British occupation troops) and found a situation in Lübeck similar to that in Rostock, which involved the repatriation of relocated stocks, the preservation of stocks and the first restoration of war damage put in the foreground. His successor in Rostock was Ludolf Fiesel. In 1947 he implemented Carl Georg Heise's Barlach plan by placing the three statues of the Community of Saints completed by Ernst Barlach in the niches of the west facade of the Katharinenkirche and, in coordination with Barlach, led the completion of this cycle with statues by the sculptor Gerhard Marcks a. During his term of office, the forgeries of the wall paintings by Lothar Malskat fell in 1948 on the occasion of the reconstruction of the Marienkirche in Lübeck . In 1955 he was appointed director of the Westphalian State Museum in Münster. There he died on the day of his inauguration.

“His involvement in the Malskat trial, from which he emerged impeccably, weighed heavily on him; but he suffered from the fact that he too had not recognized the falsification of the frescoes in St. Mary's Church in time, although he was constantly prevented from checking the work that he wanted. "

- Carl Georg Heise : Obituary in: Die Zeit (1955)

His successor in Lübeck was Fritz Schmalenbach . Gräbke's estate is in the Rostock city archive.

Fonts

  • Tobias Wilhelmi and the Magdeburg baroque sculpture after the Thirty Years' War. 1928 (dissertation)
  • The St. Marienkirche in Rostock , Adler, Rostock 1933
  • [with Heinrich Rahden:] The ships of the Rostock merchant fleet 1800-1917. Hinstorff, Rostock 1941.
  • Rostock, Marienkirche, Neuer Markt and town hall. 1944.
  • The Reformation carpet of the University of Greifswald. Mann, Berlin 1947.
  • Doberan, monastery . 1948.
  • Wismar. German art publisher, Berlin 1948.
  • The Memling Altar. Lübeck, [approx. 1950].
  • The wall paintings of the Marienkirche in Lübeck. 1951.
  • Lübeck wall paintings of the Middle Ages. With 16 art print images. Rahtgens, Lübeck [1951].
  • Lübeck. ( Deutsche Lande - German Art ). Munich / Berlin 1953.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abram Enns: Art and Citizenship. The controversial twenties in Lübeck. Christians / Weiland, Hamburg / Lübeck 1978, ISBN 3-7672-0571-8 , p. 158.
  2. ^ The holdings of the archive of the Hanseatic City of Rostock: an annotated overview. Rostock: Redieck & Schade 2010 (Small series of publications from the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Rostock; 17) ISBN 978-3-934116-88-7 , p. 301
personal data
SURNAME Gräbke, Hans Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gräbke, Arnold; Gräbke, HA
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Höxter
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1955
Place of death Muenster