Hans Tintelnot

Hans Julius Leonhard Wilhelm August Tintelnot (born September 27, 1909 in Lemgo , † January 2, 1970 in Hofgeismar ) was a German art historian and painter. He was particularly concerned with the Baroque era .

Life

Hans Tintelnot was a son of the grocer and coffee roaster Wilhelm Tintelnot and his wife Ida, nee. Dreves.

He attended the grammar school in Lemgo , where Karl Meier was one of his teachers. At his suggestion he wrote a work on Lippe's tombs and epitaphs in 1929 . In the same year Tintelnot passed his Abitur. With the support of his uncle Leonhard Wahrburg (1860–1933), he studied art history, literary history, history and archeology in Munich , Vienna and Breslau . There he also attended the art academy.

In 1936 Tintelnot married Monika Atzert , who was also an art historian. The marriage resulted in two daughters, born in 1937 and 1941.

In 1937 he did his doctorate under Dagobert Frey with a thesis on the baroque theater. His dissertation, in which he followed the development of theater decoration from the late renaissance to the late baroque classicism and established the parallels between the formation of space in churches and on the stage, became a standard work. Tintelnot was an assistant at the Art History Institute in Wroclaw. In the 1940s Tintelnot showed himself to be German national and occupied himself with the art of the Middle Ages. In 1943 he completed his habilitation thesis entitled The Medieval Architecture of Silesia .

When the end of the “ Third Reich ” was in sight, Tintelnot and his family initially moved back to Lemgo, where he found accommodation in his parents' house on Mittelstrasse and initially worked in his father's business. He also organized cultural events and created watercolors, selling them to raise the family income. In 1946 he went to the University of Göttingen , where he became an adjunct professor in 1950 or 1951. His wife stayed in Lemgo and built up the adult education center (VHS) there; In 1950 she became the first full-time VHS director. The Tintelnot couple separated in the early post-war years.

During his time in Göttingen, during which he also looked after the art collection of the university there, he wrote his works on baroque fresco painting, the genesis of the concept of baroque and modern art since classicism. Tintelnot began an independent German development of fresco painting in court culture in southern Germany around 1600, which did not correspond to the widespread doctrine, and insisted on the idea of ​​the national character expressed in works of art.

In 1959 Tintelnot moved to Kiel at Düppelstrasse 54 and took over Richard Sedlmaier's chair as a full professor at the Institute of Art History and also became director of the Kiel art gallery . On June 8, 1959, he also became chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein Art Association . Tintelnot made particular efforts to complete the collection of 19th century German art. For financial reasons, Tintelnot bought contemporary art primarily in the form of graphics and drawings. In front of his students, Tintelnot sometimes portrayed himself as a representative of bygone eras. At a carnival party of the Kunsthistorisches Institut, he appeared in the costume of Cardinal Scipione Caffarelli Borghese based on a marble bust of Bernini from 1632 and had the ring kissed by all bystanders.

For health reasons, Tintelnot took early retirement in 1967. He was buried in the city of his birth.

A large part of his estate passed into the possession of his daughters. In Wroclaw National Museum watercolors Tintelnots were rediscovered with Breslauer motifs that were possibly collected for an exhibition that has not taken place because of the outbreak of war. Tintelnot's works were exhibited posthumously in 2016 in the witch mayor's house in Lemgo.

Works

• Baroque theater and baroque art. The history of the development of festival and theater decoration in its relationship to the visual arts , Berlin 1939
• The baroque fresco painting in Germany. Their development and European impact , Munich 1951

literature

• Jens Martin Neumann: Hans Tintelnot (1909–1970), Baroque in Kiel. In: Hans-Dieter Nägelke (ed.): Art history in Kiel. 100 years of the Art History Institute of Christian Albrechts University, 1893–1993. Art History Institute of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel 1994, ISBN 3-928794-11-6 , pp. 79–84.
• Peter Biresch, Jürgen Scheffler: The beginnings of the Volkshochschule Lemgo and the Lippischen Volksbildungswerk after 1945 , Volkshochschule Lemgo, Städtisches Museum Lemgo, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-89534-954-6 , pp. 23-25

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Deviating from the statement mostly - also in the DNB - that Tintelnot died in Hofgeismar, you can read on www.gelehrtenverzeichnis.de that he died in Lemgo. On this page, however, there is also a completely unrealistic information about the year or place of the habilitation. Kiel is given as the place of death on www.wissen.de .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Jürgen Scheffler: Hans Tintelnot. Exhibition in the witch mayor's house in Lemgo on www.regionalgeschichte.de
3. ↑ ^{a b} Hans Tintelnot. Aquarelle on www.lemgo.net  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ The sources contradict each other with the indication of when Tintelnot held the assistant position. There is an indication of 1934 and an indication of 1937.
5. ^ Jens Martin Neumann: baroque in kiel. tintelnot at www.kunstgeschichte.uni-kiel.de