Hans M. Schmidt

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Hans Martin Schmidt (born November 26, 1936 in Hürth near Cologne ) is a German art historian .

Live and act

Hans M. Schmidt experienced his first childhood years in Knapsack near Cologne. During the Second World War he was evacuated with his mother in Markt Erlbach in Central Franconia . The parental home was destroyed in a bomb attack. Towards the end of the war he and his mother initially found accommodation with relatives, and from 1952 both lived in Bonn . His father went missing in Russia .

After graduating from high school in Cologne in the fall of 1960, Schmidt studied art history , classical archeology , history and philosophy at the universities of Bonn and Hamburg . In 1969 he received his doctorate with his dissertation The Master of the Life of Mary and his Circle - Studies of Late Gothic Painting in Cologne under Herbert von Eine in Bonn.

From 1969 to 1977 Schmidt worked initially as a volunteer and - after receiving the Richard Hamann scholarship from the Hessian Minister of Education in 1970/71 - from 1971 as a curator at the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt . In addition to further occupation with late medieval art such as B. the master of the Darmstadt Passion he prepared a. a. presented a number of important exhibitions by contemporary artists such as George Segal (1971), Joseph Beuys (1972), Walter De Maria (1974) and Arnulf Rainer (1975).

After a brief interlude in 1978/79 as a cultural advisor in Hanau , Schmidt moved to the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn in 1979 , where he was initially responsible for the art of the 20th century before becoming department director of the collections in 1982. At times he was acting head of the museum. Apart from numerous acquisitions, lectures and publications, he participated in the exhibitions of the Bonn State Museum until his retirement in 2000. Among the highlights of his exhibition activities at the State Museum, Schmidt retrospectively included Heaven, Fame and Glory (1989) on the occasion of Bonn's 2000th anniversary, Der Rhein - Le Rhin - De Waal (1995) and Poezie a Skutečnost / Poetry and Reality (2000), an exhibition with paintings from the 19th century from the Landesmuseum Bonn and a Rhenish private collection in the Haus zur Steinernen Glocke in Prague . As a researcher, he also succeeded in making a few new assignments.

From 1977 to 2005 Schmidt held teaching positions in art history at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main and at the University of Bonn. From 2002 to 2008 he was chairman of the Society for Art and Design in Bonn. He continues to do research after his retirement. Working with Israhel van Meckenem resulted in the film Israhel van Meckenem - Goldsmith and Copper Engraver in 2011 . In 2015 he published the book The Last Signature - Graves of German Artists of the 20th Century .

He is married and has lived in Meckenheim near Bonn since 1979 .

Active memberships

  • Head of the Horst Rave Foundation (since 2010)
  • Rhenish Archive Board of Trustees for Artists' Legacies (since 2008)
  • Advisory Board Douglas Swan Foundation (since 2005)

Fonts (selection)

  • Israhel van Meckenem's “Feast of Herod” or engagement ceremony at the court of the Duke of Kleve, an early historical picture in: Das Münster 1/2020, ISSN  0027-299X , pp. 56–59.
  • Miscellanea on Israhel van Meckenem in: Das Münster 2/2018, pp. 207–212.
  • An installation from 1989. Wolfgang Nestler in the Bonn Ministry of Transport in: Jo Enzweiler (Hrsg.): Wolfgang Nestler. Power no one fears. Active form. Sculptures. Catalog raisonné 1967–2017 , Saarlouis 2017, ISBN 978-3-9817447-5-0 , pp. 512–519.
  • The last signature - graves of German artists of the 20th century , Verlag Dr. Kovač, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8300-8156-2 .
  • with Gabriele Uelsberg , Katharina Liebetrau: Adoration of the Magi : Workshop of the Master of the Bartholomäus Altar , Kulturstiftung der Länder , Berlin 2014. DNB 1069493791
  • Early work by Derick Baegert in: Jürgen Becks / Martin Wilhelm Roelen (eds.): Derick Baegert and his work , Wesel 2011, ISBN 978-3-924380-86-1 .
  • With eye and hand - and in the passages of memory in: Jochen Pieces , Paris, Album I , Kerber, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-86678-215-0 .
  • The millennium exhibitions in Aachen, Düsseldorf, Cologne as well as Koblenz and Mainz in: Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann (ed.): Millennium celebrations and liberation celebrations in the Rhineland, on the political festival culture 1925 and 1930 , Klartext Verlag Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89861- 443-6 .
  • KO Götz and the COBRA in: Dieter Breuer / Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann (eds.): The Rhineland and European Modernism, Cultural Exchange Processes in Western Europe 1900–1950 , Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-943-1 .
  • The “Grande Parade”, world art or a familiar idiom? in: Exhibition catalog Crossart - Van Gogh to Beuys , Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfilfdern 2005, ISBN 978-3-7757-1605-5 .
  • “No art with an expiry date” - on the work of Ernemann Sander in: Exhibition catalog Ernemann F. Sander for the 80th sculptures and drawings from more than five decades , Bonn 2005
  • Israhel van Meckenem - on life and work in: Our Bocholt . No. 3/2003. on-line
  • Poznamky k nemeckemu malirstvi 19. stoleti in: Exhibition catalog Poezie a Skutečnost / Poetry and Reality - 19th century paintings from the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn and from a Rhenish private collection , Prague 2000, ISBN 978-80-7010-075-2 .
  • The Thursday Society in Alfter - an unusual initiative of the post-war period in: Dieter Breuer, Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann (Ed.): Public of Modernity - Modernity in Public , Klartext Verlag, Essen 2000, ISBN 978-3-88474-873 -2 , pp. 141-156.
  • Expressieve posities in de Nederlandse en Duitse schilderkunst van de afgelopen decennia - Een vergelijking in: Modern art: keuze uit de verzameling van Museum Het Valkhof , Nijmegen 1999, ISBN 90-6829-062-2 .
  • Between order and freedom - aspects of art in 1925 in: Exhibition catalog Vor und zurück - 1925 - a prism of art in Germany , Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn 1999, ISBN 978-3-86077-859-3 .
  • “Real allegories” or the persuasiveness of images in: Exhibition catalog Norbert Tadeusz , Energische Moments, Bilder bis 1997 , Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-7927-1712-3
  • Of unambiguity and ambiguity or ecstasy and metamorphosis in: Torsten Schlüter , Tulipamwe, Weimar - Berlin - Blois , publisher: Weimarer Kunstfest GmbH and Stadtmuseum Weimar, Weimar 1997, ISBN 978-3-930687-12-1 .
  • See-pieces with wind in: Exhibition catalog Don't turn around: Works by Werner Haypeter, Wolfgang Nestler , Paul Schwer , Bonn 1997.
  • La commitenza e la forma del gotico in: Gerhard Bott (Ed.): La pittura tedesca (La pittura in Europa) , Electa, Milan 1996, ISBN 978-88-435-4040-2 .
  • Traces and myths - the Rhine between perception and memory , picturesque and romantic, views of the Rhine from the 19th century , bridges over the Rhine - constructions, traffic routes and landmarks in: Exhibition catalog The Rhine / Le Rhin / De Waal - A European stream in art and culture of the 20th century , Wienand, Cologne 1995, ISBN 978-3-87909-460-8 .
  • Walter Cohen - The scientific beginnings in Berlin and Bonn and his view of Rhenish art in: Martina Sitt, Even a picture needs a lawyer: Walter Cohen, Life Between Art and Law , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 978-3-422-06128 -6 .
  • The luminous order of his pictures - memories of Leo Breuer in: Encounters with Leo Breuer. Homage on the 100th birthday , gkg , Bonn 1993, ISBN 978-3-923154-15-9 .
  • According to his own line and thread - The beginnings of Hann Trier in the post-war period in: Sabine Fehlemann (Ed.): Hann Trier. Monograph and catalog raisonné , Wienand, Cologne 1990, ISBN 978-3-87909-219-2 .
  • Symbol and sense of image - On the imagery of the Baroque in: Exhibition catalog Heaven, Fame and Glory. Italian artists at Rhenish courts of the Baroque , R. Habelt, Cologne 1989, ISBN 978-3-87909-219-2 .
  • Ulrich Rückriem in: Artists - Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art , Munich 1988.
  • For the merits of their great men. Public monuments in Bonn 1871–1914 in: Dietrich Höroldt, Manfred van Rey (eds.): Bonn in the Imperial Era 1871–1914. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Bonn Homeland and History Association , Bonn 1986, pp. 193–213.
  • “A community of lonely people, a bond between the self-employed” - artist associations d. Post war period. in exhibition catalog Aus den Trümmern - Art and Culture in the Rhineland and in Westphalia 1945–1952 , Cologne 1985. https://nwbib.de/BT000053669
  • The master of the life of Mary and his circle. Studies of late Gothic painting in Cologne . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1978, ISBN 3-590-29022-6 .
  • Artists and death - self-portraits in: HH Jansen (Ed.): The death in poetry, philosophy and art , Verlag JF Steinkopf, Darmstadt 1978, ISBN 3-7985-0532-2 .
  • Dept. “Furniture” in: Exhibition catalog A Document German Art 1901–1976, Volume 2, Art and Decoration 1851–1914 , Eduard Roether Verlag, Darmstadt, 1976/1977.
  • Exhibition catalog Carl Grossberg . Paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints, 1914–1940. , Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Darmstadt 1976. DNB 760505578
  • Exhibition catalog Arnulf Rainer . Work 1948–1975 , Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Darmstadt 1975. DNB 790549727
  • Exhibition catalog Walter De Maria . The great earth space. 8 sculptures, 44 drawings , Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Darmstadt 1974. OCLC 10408941
  • To the master of the Darmstadt Passion in: Art in Hesse and the Middle Rhine. Vol. 14, 1974, pp. 9-48.
  • Exhibition catalog Joseph Beuys . Drawings and other sheets from the Karl Ströher collection , Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Darmstadt 1972. DNB 730524582
  • Gottfried Kinkel and the Gemäldegalerie in Darmstadt in: Art in Hesse and the Middle Rhine. Vol. 11, 1971, pp. 107-114.
  • On the work of the Master of Glorification Mariae in: Florens Deuchler et al. (Ed.): Student festival for Herbert von Eine on February 16, 1965 . Bonn 1965, pp. 249-260.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans M. Schmidt, "Evacuated" - in grateful memory of Markt Erlach in: Markt Erlbacher Heimatbrief , March 2015
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 06: 00-08: 14min @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.podcast.de
  3. ↑ Publication: The Master of the Life of Mary and his Circle. Studies of late Gothic painting in Cologne . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1978, ISBN 3-590-29022-6 .
  4. ↑ see cover text of the dissertation publication 1978.
  5. ↑ a b c Source: Archive link ( Memento from November 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ DNB 740721720
  7. ↑ DNB 730524582
  8. ↑ OCLC 10408941. According to the foreword by the director of the Museum Gerhard Bott , the exhibition was one of the first larger ones in Europe: "This exhibition - after that of the Basler Kunstmuseum 1972/73, the second larger one in Europe - is ..." (from the foreword to the exhibition catalog).
  9. ↑ DNB 790549727
  10. ↑ Hans M. Schmidt: “I have always focused on medieval art and, at the same time, on contemporary art. The arch is quite wide, but only in this connection is it possible for me. ” Archived copy ( memento of the original from December 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 22:29 min @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.podcast.de
  11. ↑ DNB 891363289
  12. ↑ DNB 945196814
  13. ↑ OCLC 320430026
  14. ↑ Photo ( Memento from November 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ Experiments and the power of persistence - Interview by Heidrun Wirth with Hans M. Schmidt on the occasion of his retirement, published in the Bonner Rundschau, July 1, 2000
  16. ^ Artists at the turn of the modern age , article by Heidrun Wirth in the Bonner Rundschau of July 25, 2011; [1]
  17. ↑ "My very special thanks go to Eva Marie Schmidt, my dear wife. Without their varied and tireless support, the book would not have come into being. ”(Acknowledgments from: Hans M. Schmidt, The Last Signature , Verlag Dr. Kovač, Hamburg 2015)
  18. ^ Artists at the turn of the modern age , article by Heidrun Wirth in the Bonner Rundschau from July 25, 2011
  19. ↑ http://www.buergerstiftung-bonn.de/stiftungen/horst-rave-stiftung/
  20. ↑ http://www.rak-bonn.de/text/kurator.htm
  21. ↑ http://www.douglas-swan-stiftung.de/beirat/
  22. ^ Institute for Current Art In: institut-aktuelle-kunst.de , accessed on August 1, 2018.
  23. ↑ Ernemann F. Sander on the 80th In: sevengebirgsmuseum.de , accessed on August 1, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Hans M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Hans Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Huerth