Helga Kreuter-Eggemann

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Helga Kreuter-Eggemann , née Helga Eggemann , (* 1914 ; † February 16, 1970 ) was a German art historian .

Life

Helga Eggemann studied art history and received her doctorate from the University of Berlin in 1941 . From 1941 to 1944 she worked for the task force Reichsleiter Rosenberg during art theft in France. During this time she was already the lover of the business lawyer Alexander Kreuter , whom she later married. She lived in Munich and owned a collection of Gothic manuscripts, graphics from French impressionism and art nouveau arts and crafts .

Fonts

  • Jacquemart de Hesdin and the bookmakers at the court of King Charles V and the Duke of Berry. Berlin 1941 (= dissertation)
  • Gospel in the picture. Words from the Gospels and their representation in art. Kösel, Munich 1954
  • The sketchbook of "Jaques Daliwe". Bruckmann, Munich 1964

literature

  • Collect and preserve. Contributions to art, literature and book history. Wölfle, Munich 1973, p. 28. 29 (picture). 217
  • Art history, especially book painting and the Middle Ages from the Dr. Helga Kreuter-Eggemann and other possessions. Wölfle, Munich 1978
  • Jakob Kurz: Art theft in Europe 1938–1945. Facta Oblita Verlag, Hamburg 1989, pp. 204-205
  • Jonathan Petropoulos: The Faustian bargain. The art world in Nazi Germany. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000, p. 333
  • A qui appartenaient ces tableaux? La politique française de recherche de provenance, de garde et de restitution des oeuvres d'art pillées durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale / Looking for owners. French policy for provenance research, restitution and custody of art stolen in France during World War Two. Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris 2008, p. 13

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