Hans Wentzel (art historian)

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Hans Wentzel (born February 2, 1913 in Altona , † August 17, 1975 in Stuttgart ) was a German art historian .

Life

Wentzel studied art history, especially with Otto Schmitt , whose employee he later became. In 1935 he was with a thesis on the relationship of the high altar of the monastery church of the monastery Cismar to Lübeck choir workshops of the 14th century at the University of Goettingen to the Dr. phil. PhD. During the Second World War , he headed a project for the photographic documentation of the stained glass in Germany endangered by the war on behalf of the German Association for Art Research from the end of 1940. In 1953, as the successor to Otto Schmitt, he became professor of art history at the Technical University of Stuttgart , while at the same time teaching art history and art appreciation for prospective art teachers at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . His successor at the Technical University was Herwarth Röttgen in 1977 .

Wentzel was best known for his work on medieval stained glass and stone carving. He was a major co-founder of the corpus of medieval stained glass " Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi ". He also wrote numerous articles in the Reallexikon on German art history .

Publications

  • The high altar in Cismar and the Lübeck choir stalls workshops from the 14th century. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1937 (diss.)
  • Lübeck sculpture until the middle of the 14th century. Berlin: Dt. Association for Art History 1938 (Monuments of German Art)
  • with Alfred Ehrhardt: Low German Madonnas: a picture with 120 panels. Hamburg: Ellermann 1941
  • The Bardowicker choir stalls. Hamburg: Ellermann 1943
  • Albert von Soest's Lüneburg Council Chamber. Hamburg: Ellermann 1947
  • The Christ-John groups of the 14th century. Berlin: Mann 1947 (The Art Letter 41)
  • Old stalls in Schleswig-Holstein and Vierlanden. Elmshorn / Holstein: Voigt 1948
  • (Ed.) Form and content: Studies in art history. Otto Schmitt's 60th birthday on December 13, 1950, offered by his friends. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1950
  • The Lütjenburg Altar from 1467. With 40 panels by Theodor Voigt. Hamburg: Ellermann 1951 (North German work monographs)
  • Masterpieces of stained glass. Berlin: German Association for Art History 1951 (Monuments of German Art), 2nd, verb. Edition 1954
  • The stained glass in Swabia from 1200-1350. Published by the German Association for Art History, Berlin: German Association for Art History 1958 (Corpus vitrearum Medii Aevi. Germany 1)
  • The Christ-John groups of the XIVth century. (Revised) Stuttgart: Reclam 1960 (Reclams Universal Library; No. B 9051)
  • Portraits of the Brücke artists of each other. Stuttgart: Reclam 1961 (Reclams Universal Library; No. B. 9063)

literature

  • Rüdiger Becksmann (Ed.): Contributions to the art of the Middle Ages. Festschrift for Hans Wentzel on his 60th birthday. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-7861-7014-2 (Bibliography H. Wentzel pp. 255-267)

Web links

  • Image in the digital portrait archive

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Daniel Parello: War recovery recordings of endangered cultural assets - The photo collection of medieval glass paintings at the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Germany / Freiburg im Breisgau , abstract ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2013 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. at the Deutsche Fotothek , accessed on August 25, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fotomarburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Wentzel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1975
Place of death Stuttgart