Hans Haug (art historian)

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Hans Haug (born December 1, 1890 in Niederbronn in Alsace ; died December 15, 1965 near Héming ) was a Franco-German art historian , curator and director of the museums in Strasbourg .

Live and act

Haug first attended the Protestant grammar school in Strasbourg before studying history, art history and philology at the Universities of Strasbourg and Munich and at the École du Louvre in Paris . In 1907, at the age of 17, he became a museum assistant to Ernst Polaczek at the Hohenlohe Museum (formerly the Museum of Applied Arts ), and since 1912 he was a research assistant for the four museums in Strasbourg. These were the “ Musée des Beaux Arts ” (picture gallery), the “Musée des Arts Décoratifs” (Hohenlohe Museum), the “Musée Historique” (historical museum) and the “Musée Alsacien” ( Alsatian museum ). In 1914 he was obliged to serve in the German army.

After serving in the First World War, Haug succeeded Polaczek in the Palais Rohan in 1919 . With his diploma on December 22, 1924, he became a conservator and a little later founded the Women's Refuge Museum ( Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame ) in Strasbourg. He rearranged the Strasbourg collections, focusing in particular on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, as the construction of the Strasbourg Cathedral and other church buildings fell during this period. Sculptures that had been dismantled by the cathedral were already kept in the so-called Strasbourg women's shelter. As early as the 13th century, the building was built as a minster construction hut and was entrusted with the construction and maintenance of the minster. Therefore, he chose the Gothic building with its outbuildings as the location. Here, under his leadership, a collection was created for which medieval works of art from various museums were combined with the holdings of the Alsatian Society for the Preservation of Monuments. The opening of some of the rooms in the new museum took place in 1931. It was officially inaugurated to mark the 500th anniversary of the completion of the top of the cathedral tower on June 24, 1339. The invited guests also included the art historians Hans Reinhardt (1902–1984) and Kurt Martin . The ground floor housed the minster's sculptures and ironwork. Furniture, tapestries, glass windows and wooden sculptures were exhibited on the upper floors. The collection was steadily expanded, paintings, goldsmiths' work, archaeological finds as well as other furniture and Romanesque sculptures from other museum holdings or from other collections were added.

After the declaration of war , Haug was responsible for the evacuation of the art treasures of the Strasbourg museums in unoccupied France . He resigned from the municipal museums on February 20, 1941. After the end of the war he returned and in 1945 was appointed director of the “Musées à la Liberation” (Liberation Museum). He campaigned for the rebuilding of Rohan Castle and the Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame, which had been badly damaged during the war, and had them refilled with art collections. Haug had been retired since 1963. He was a corresponding member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and was an officer in the Legion of Honor . Haug died in a road accident in ice on the Route nationale 4 on the section between Sarrebourg and Heming.

In addition to his scientific work, he also worked as an artist as a lithographer and illustrator, for which he used the pseudonym "Balthasar".

Publications (selection)

  • Grünewald (Mathis Nithart) (=  Collection des maitres ). Les Editions Braun, Paris 1935, OCLC 2015636 .
  • L'art en Alsace . Arthaud, Grenoble 1962, OCLC 431755704 .
  • Eugène Carrière, 1849–1906. Exposition au château des Rohan, Strasbourg, 12 June-20 September, 1964 . Strasbourg 1964, OCLC 3008110 (exhibition catalog).

literature

  • Hélène Braeuner: Hans Haug Balthasar . In: Les peintres et l'Alsace: autour de l'impressionnisme . Renaissance Du Livre, Tournai 2003, ISBN 2-8046-0741-0 , p. 32–35 (French, books.google.de - excerpt).
  • Anne-Doris Meyer: Hans Haug et le musée de l'uvre Notre-Dame . In: Revue d'Alsace . No. 132 , 2006, ISSN  0181-0448 , p. 261-281 , doi : 10.4000 / alsace.1545 .
  • Bernadette Schnitzler, Anne-Doris Meyer (Eds.): Hans Haug, homme de musées. Une passion à l'oeuvre. Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg, Strasbourg 2009, ISBN 978-2-35125-071-6 .
  • Berthold Roland, Marie-Paule Hallard: Hans Haug (1890-1965) - the Strasbourg museum director: a museum man of international standing = Hans Haug (1890-1965) - directeur des musées de Strasbourg; un homme de musées de rang international . Azur, Wildflecken 2018, ISBN 978-3-934634-93-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tessa Friederike Rosebrock: The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg between the world wars, 1919-1939 . In: Kurt Martin and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg: Museum and exhibition policy in the 'Third Reich' and in the immediate post-war period . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-05-006244-0 , pp. 18–24 ( books.google.de - reading sample).
  2. ↑ Strasbourg / Strasbourg, Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre Dame. zum.de, accessed on September 23, 2019 .
  3. ^ Jean-Claude Hahn: Mort de Hand Haug, rénovateur des grands musées de Strasbourg . December 17, 1965 (French, lemonde.fr - obituary): “Hans Haug, directeur honoraire des musées de Strasbourg, a trouvé la mort mercredi matin dans un accident de la route dû au verglas, sur la RN 4, entre Sarrebourg et Heming »
personal data
SURNAME Haug, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Balthasar (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederbronn in Alsace
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1965
Place of death at Héming