Heinz Ladendorf

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Heinz Ladendorf (born June 29, 1909 in Leipzig ; † August 15, 1992 in Cologne ) was a German art historian .

life and work

Ladendorf grew up with foster parents in Berlin and attended high school there. He studied art history, classical archeology and history at the universities of Berlin , Leipzig and Prague . There he became active in 1927 with the Prague university singers 'Barden' (now in Munich). In 1933 he received his doctorate in Leipzig with Leo Bruhns with a thesis on Andreas Schlüter .

In 1934/35 he worked as a volunteer and - after a scholarship at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome - since 1936 as director of the palace library for the administration of the Prussian palaces and gardens in Berlin . After participating in World War II , he had been an assistant at the Archaeological Institute of Leipzig University from 1946 , where he completed his habilitation in 1948. He then taught at the Art History Institute of Leipzig University, first as a lecturer, from 1952 as associate professor and institute director, from 1954 as full professor. In 1955 he became a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . After disagreements with the FDJ group at the university and the accusation of the dean and the SED leadership that he would not contribute to “socialist awareness raising”, he left the GDR in 1958 and moved to the Federal Republic of Germany . As a result, his academic title as a "traitor" was stripped of his.

Gravestone in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne

From 1958 he taught at the University of Cologne as a professor of art history and director of the Institute of Art History until his retirement in 1977. The University of Leipzig only canceled his degrees after the fall of the Wall in 1990.

For the publication of the writings of Friedrich Naumann , Ladendorf edited the volume of aesthetic writings.

Publications (selection)

  • The sculptor and builder Andreas Schlueter. Contributions to his biography and the Berlin art history of his time . (Research on German Art History, Vol. 2). German Association for Art History, Berlin 1935.
  • Study and copy of antiquities . Preparatory work for a representation of their importance in the medieval and more recent times / Heinz Ladendorf (= treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig , Philological-Historical Class, Volume 46, Issue 2) Berlin 1953 (= habilitation thesis under the title On the question of the leading value of Antique sculpture for modern art history. Preparatory work for a representation of the importance of studying and copying antiquities in modern art ).
  • Andreas Schlueter - master builder and sculptor of the Prussian Baroque . Seemann, Leipzig 1997. ISBN 978-3-363-00676-6 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Papenbrock (Ed. :) Art and Politics Volume 8, focus: Art history at universities in the post-war period, Yearbook of the Guernica Society, V&R unipress, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978389971322-0 , p. 10 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Ladendorf, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 15th August 1992
Place of death Cologne