Hans Wühr

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Hans Wühr (born January 25, 1891 in Reghin (Sächsisch-Regen), Transylvania , Austria-Hungary , † April 23, 1982 in Grunwald , district of Munich ) was a German art historian and author .

Life

Before the First World War, Wühr studied philosophy and art history in Berlin , Geneva , Munich , Budapest and Klausenburg . He was a soldier from 1914 to 1919. In 1925 he received his doctorate in Berlin on the subject of Hans Burgkmair the Elder before he then worked at the Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu in Transylvania, Romania. In 1939 he went to Berlin to work at the State Museums. In the Second World War he was again a soldier and was taken prisoner of war. In 1948 he started at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich until he retired in 1954. From that year he worked as a freelance writer.

His son Hans Michael Wühr (1942 to 1981) was a painter.

Publications

  • Dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty in Berlin: The hand drawings of Hans Burgkmair the Elder , Berlin 1925.
  • Figurative decorations of the Black Church in Kronstadt . Editura Klingsor, Brașov, Romania 1926.
  • Transylvania , photographed by Oskar Netoliczka, 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1938; 2nd edition ibid 1942.
  • Albrecht Altdorfer / Wolf Huber : Landscapes , introduction by Hans Wühr. The silver books, Woldemar Klein, Berlin 1938.
  • Introduction to: Still life of German masters. Ten colored plates based on excerpts from pictures from the 15th / 16th centuries. Century . The silver source, Woldemar Klein, Berlin 1940.
  • Portraits: Hans Holbein . 12 colored drawings with a foreword by Hans Wühr . Woldemar Klein, Baden-Baden 1946.
  • Introduction to: Christmas cribs: From the property of the Bavarian National Museum . Society for Scientific Photographs, Munich 1951.
  • Old clocks . Schneekluth Verlag, Darmstadt 1954.
  • Colorful crib booklet . Bruckmann, Munich 1957.
  • Old eating utensils: spoons, knives, forks, home decor and household items - then and now . Schneekluth Verlag, Darmstadt 1961.
  • Old tin . Schneekluth Verlag, Darmstadt 1961.
  • Robert Kisch . For his 70th birthday . In: Südostdeutsche Vierteljahresblätter, 1967, issue 1, pages 29–31.
  • From inside a rose , poems. Wort-und-Welt-Verlag, Innsbruck 1978, ISBN 3-85373-022-1 .

literature

  • Lexicon of the Transylvanian Saxons . Thaur near Innsbruck 1993.
personal data
SURNAME Wuhr, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wühr, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Reghin , Transylvania , Austro-Hungarian Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1982
Place of death Grunwald , district of Munich