Heinz Mansfeld

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Heinz Mansfeld (born June 3, 1899 in Eisenach , † May 3, 1959 in Schwerin ) was a German art historian and monument conservator.

Life

Heinz Mansfeld was the son of a businessman. He attended the Realgymnasium in Eisenach, which he graduated from secondary school in 1917. After military service in World War II, he trains as an art dealer in the art dealer Emil Richter in Dresden . From 1919 to 1922 he was director of the art salon in Leipzig , 1923/24 of the Braun gallery in Munich , and 1924/25 of the Matthiesen gallery in Berlin . He then worked as a freelance curator of art exhibitions and editor of exhibition catalogs. His apartment and gallery in Berlin were destroyed in World War II.

In 1945 he moved to Mecklenburg and started as a new farmer in Linstow . He became a member of the Association of Mutual Farmers Aid . Until 1952 he ran a pony breed in Hinrichshof near Krakow am See and was chairman of the committee for small horse breeding .

In 1947 he was appointed to the advisory board of the Mecklenburgisches Landesmuseum Schwerin, today's State Museum Schwerin . In 1949 he took over the management of the State Museum as director, which he held until his death in 1959.

From 1949 to 1952 he was also the state curator for architectural and art monuments and head of the state office for monument preservation in Schwerin as well as responsible for the preservation of natural monuments.

In 1955 he was at the University of Greifswald with a thesis on the sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon to Dr. phil. PhD.

During his term of office reorganizations and the reopening of the main department of the picture gallery of Dutch painting of the 17th century and painting of the 18th century in the Museum Schwerin. He had the cultural history collection reorganized and opened a contemporary art department . Its conception was the progressive museum work ; the reorganization of the holdings was carried out “according to pedagogical criteria”.

For the famous first GDR exhibition of works by Ernst Barlach in the (East) Berlin Academy of the Arts in the winter of 1951/52, which was shaped by the formalism dispute, he juxtaposed the works of Barlach's sculptures from Mecklenburg's late Gothic period from the museum's holdings.

Mansfeld was also active as a cultural functionary. He was an early member of the Kulturbund for the Democratic Renewal of Germany , the Central Monument Council at the State Commission for Art Affairs and the Ministry of Culture (GDR) as well as the Special Commission for Museums and Monument Preservation and the Lucas-Cranach Commission for the care and research of German art.

He died by suicide .

Publications

  • Goethe, the world and the environment. A collection of historical and contemporary articles. 1949
  • The late Gothic sculpture in Mecklenburg and the work of Ernst Barlach. Berlin: German Academy of the Arts 1951
  • Masterpieces of Dutch Painting: 10 reproductions. Dresden: Verlag der Kunst [1955]
  • The sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon <1741–1828>: His time, his work in Germany. Greifswald, Phil. F., Diss. V. Feb. 4, 1956

Catalogs

  • Toulouse-Lautrec as a painter. 1925
  • Honoré Daumier as a painter. 1926
  • Catalog of paintings of the 18th century in the State Museum Schwerin. Schwerin: State Museum 1954

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6274 .
  • Susanne Fiedler, Torsten Knuth: Picture puzzles of a biography: Dr. Heinz Mansfeld (1899-1959). In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher 126 (2011), pp. 285–324

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Mansfeld: Progressive museum work. In: Volksbildung 3 (1950), 16, pp. 174–175
  2. ^ Hans Strutz : State Museum Schwerin. Schwerin 1984, p. 5
  3. ^ Ilona Schulz: The Barlach exhibition 1951/52 in the German Academy of the Arts, Berlin (GDR). In: Günter Feist, Eckhart Gillen, Beatrice Vierneisel (ed.): Art Documentation SBZ / GDR 1945–1990. Articles, reports, materials. Cologne: DuMont 1996 ISBN 978-3-7701-3846-3 , pp. 139–159
  4. ↑ See Jochen Staadt (Ed.): "The conquest of culture begins!". The State Commission for Art Affairs of the GDR (1951–1953) and the cultural policy of the SED (= studies of the SED State Research Association at the Free University of Berlin . Vol. 15). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-60548-6 , pp. 162, 247
personal data
SURNAME Mansfeld, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1959
Place of death Schwerin