Hans Erich Kubach

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Hans Erich Kubach (born September 2, 1909 in Cologne , † May 26, 1999 in Speyer ) was a German art historian and monument conservator who was considered a leading expert on Romanesque and pre- Romanesque architecture in Germany. He was the curator of the Rhineland-Palatinate Monument Preservation in Speyer.

biography

Kubach studied art history in Cologne , Bonn , Besançon and Paris. In 1933 he received his doctorate in Cologne from Rudolf Kömstedt with a dissertation on the Rhenish Triforian Churches of the Staufer period , and in 1942, again with Kömstedt, he completed his habilitation in Erlangen with the work The Lower Rhine-Maasland Art Space from the Ottonian to the Staufer Period: An Art Geographic Study .

After completing his studies, he initially worked in the inventory of art monuments. For the art monuments of the province of Mark Brandenburg he edited the volume of the district of Sorau and the city of Forst (1939) and the district of Teltow (1941); the planned volume Landkreis Oststernberg (today Powiat Sulęciński ) appeared due to the situation only in 1960. For Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz he was involved in the creation of the volume on the Landkreis Koblenz (1944). From 1954 to 1974 he was senior curator at the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate, and from 1962 to 1985 he was also honorary professor at Saarland University .

Hans Erich Kubach's main research interest was in Romanesque architecture, which he saw in its respective regional form in the European context, regardless of national restrictions. His preoccupation with the early Gothic architecture of France and its significant influence on the Rhenish late Romanesque inspired him to classify the development of French architecture between 1140 and 1190 as “late Romanesque of the Île-de-France ”. Together with Walter Haas , Kubach led the accompanying construction investigation during the restoration of the Speyer Cathedral (1957 to 1972), which led to a decisive reassessment of its building history. With his colleague at the Rhenish State Office for Monument Preservation Albert Verbeek , whom he knew from his student days, he published a four-volume inventory of the Romanesque churches in the Rhine-Maas area. Another interest was the phenomenon of the Romanesque hall church in its respective landscape characteristics in the different regions of Europe.

Appreciation

According to his obituary in the Berliner Zeitung , Kubach was "perhaps the last great among the academic preservationists"; his three-volume monograph on the Speyer Cathedral, which he worked on together with Water Haas, “became a founding monument of modern building research and revolutionized knowledge of medieval construction. Countless art historians and building archaeologists have followed this path. Kubach's art landscape studies, however, have so far only been insufficiently exhausted in their exemplary expressiveness. "

Fonts (selection)

  • Rhenish architecture of the Staufer period. The triforium and its parallels in France (= research into the history of art in Western Europe 12). Cologne 1934
  • The triforium. A contribution to the art-historical spatial studies of Europe in the Middle Ages . In: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 5, 1936, pp. 275–288
  • The cathedral of Aachen. German art publisher, Berlin 1956
  • The Palatinate. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2nd edition 1966
  • with Victor H. Elbern : The early medieval empire. In the series: Art of the World . Holle Verlag, Baden-Baden 1968
  • with Walter Haas: The Speyer Cathedral. 3 volumes, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1972
  • with Albert Verbeek: Romanesque churches on the Rhine and Maas. Society for Book Printing, Neuss 1972, 3rd edition 1978
  • with Helfried Ehrend: The Speyer Cathedral in the coin image. Numismatic Society, Speyer 1973
  • Romanesque, in the series: World history of architecture. Belser Verlag, Stuttgart 1974
  • The Speyer Cathedral. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1974, 3rd edition 1988, 5th edition 2011 (edited by Günther Binding )
  • with Albert Verbeek: Romanesque architecture on the Rhine and Maas. Catalog of pre-Romanesque and Romanesque monuments, 4 volumes, monuments of German art, Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1976 to 1989
  • with Herbert Dellwing: The art monuments of Rhineland-Palatinate , part 7: The art monuments of the Pirmasens district , Vol. 2: The art monuments of the city and the former district of Zweibrücken . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1981
  • German dome of the Middle Ages. Langewiesche, The Blue Books, 1984
  • with Isolde Köhler-Schommer: Romanesque hall churches in Europe. von Zabern, Mainz 1997. ISBN 9783805313643

literature

  • Franz J. Much (Ed.): Architecture of the Middle Ages in Europe. Hans Erich Kubach on his 75th birthday , Stuttgart Society for Art and Monument Preservation, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 9783926168009 (with a complete list of publications).
  • Dethard von Winterfeld : Hans Erich Kubach on the occasion of his 80th birthday on September 2, 1989 . In: Journal of the German Association for Art Research 44, 1990, pp. 9–12.
* Herbert Dellwing: Ein Forscherleben für die Romanische Baukunst. Zum Tod des Bau- und Kunsthistoriker Hans Erich Kubach. Jahrhundertwerk über den Speyrer Dom offenbarte neue Aspekte. In: Rheinpfalz Nr. 133 vom 12. Juni 1999.
  • Herbert Dellwing. Obituary . In: Die Denkmalpflege 1999, pp. 88–89.
  • Prof. Dr. Hans Erich Kubach . In: Rheinische Denkmalpflege 36, 1999, pp. 315-316.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the death of the art historian Hans Erich Kubach: The ways of the Romanesque . Berliner Zeitung , May 29, 1999, accessed October 30, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Kubach, Hans Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1999
Place of death Speyer