Harald Busch

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Harald Busch (born August 5, 1904 in Bad Godesberg ; † February 12, 1983 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German art historian, museum director and author.

Life

Busch was born the son of bank director Alfred Otto Busch and his wife Eugenie (née Schick). After attending a grammar school in Hanover, he studied art history and in 1930 at the University of Marburg on the subject master of Johannes altar of Hildesheim Michaeliskirche Dr. phil. PhD.

He specialized in late medieval fine arts and with his publications contributed to the art-historical attribution of works of art from the late Gothic period and the transition to the North German Renaissance to well-known artists and unknown masters ( emergency names ). After being brought into line , he was appointed head of the picture gallery of the Hamburger Kunsthalle under its director Wilhelm Freiherr Kleinschmit von Lengefeld for a short time in 1934/1935 , but was dismissed after the “Art Party Congress” in Nuremberg in autumn 1935 because Alfred Rosenberg had made him stand for held unreliable. Busch had campaigned for artists such as Emil Nolde , whose painting Hüllenoft Hof he had acquired for the Kunsthalle in November 1934 with a donation from the mid-life industrialist Alfred Voss, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Edvard Munch . "Busch was convinced that he could also stand up for National Socialism with works by modern 'Nordic' artists in line with the general political stance."

As a former sailor he served in a propaganda company during World War II and, like his older brother Fritz-Otto Busch , contributed as an author with numerous publications to the glorification of the submarine war .

After the Second World War he was - only - active as a freelance writer and quite productive non-fiction author. He often worked with the photographer and publicist Bernd Lohse on the creation of cultural-historical photo books. Many of his publications were published by Umschau-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main.

He was married to Erika Busch (née Stieb) since 1936. The couple had two children.

Fonts (selection)

Art history until 1945

  • Master Wolter and his circle. Part: 1. Kirchl. Wooden sculpture u. Painting d. 16th century in Hildesheim before d. Einf. D. Reformation (1542): (With an excursus about Hans Raphon and south Lower Saxony painting of his time). Strasbourg: JH Ed. Heitz 1931 (Studies on German Art History; H. 288 [rather] 286) plus dissertation Marburg 1930
  • Masters of the North. Old Low German painting. 1450-1550. 2nd, revised edition. Ellermann, Hamburg 1943

Publications on the Navy

  • U-boat on patrol , Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1942
  • Hunting in the Atlantic: Submarine War Reports , 2nd edition, Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1943
  • Such was the submarine war , Deutscher Heimat-Verlag, Bielefeld 1952

Non-fiction books after 1945

  • Harald Busch, Bernd Lohse: Gothic architecture in Europe. Frankfurt am Main 1958.
  • Gerhard Bechthold, Bernd Lohse (ed.): Our home. The district. Landscape, nature, art monuments in the vicinity of the Ruhr area. Frankfurt am Main 1958.
  • Harald Busch, Bernd Lohse: Buildings of Europe. New York 1959.
  • Harald Busch, Bernd Lohse (ed.): Architecture of the Romanesque in Europe , Text: Hans Weigert, Umschau Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1959.
  • Harald Busch, Bernd Lohse: Renaissance architecture in Europe. Frankfurt am Main 1960.
  • Harald Busch, Bernd Lohse: Baroque architecture in Europe. Frankfurt am Main 1961.
  • Harald Busch, Bernd Lohse: Baroque sculpture in Europe. Frankfurt am Main 1964.

Web links

  • Short vita in the Polunbi catalog of the "Central Police Office for Combating Indecent Pictures, Writings and Advertisements at the Prussian Police Headquarters in Berlin".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Title of the 42-page dissertation: The Johannes Master and his circle . Completely contained in: Master Wolter and his circle , Strasbourg, 1931
  2. ↑ Ulrich Luckhardt: Emil Nolde: Hüllenoft Hof. The story of an image. Hamburg 2002; Information from the Hamburger Kunsthalle on Hüllenoft Hof ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Jonathan Petropoulos: Artists Under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany. Yale University Press 2014 ISBN 9780300210613 , p. 163
  4. ↑ Information from the Hamburger Kunsthalle on Hüllenoft Hof ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Busch, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, museum director and author
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH bad Godesberg
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1983
Place of death Frankfurt am Main