Helmut Engel (art historian)

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Helmut Engel (born May 2, 1935 in Northeim , † September 19, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German art historian and monument conservator . From 1972 to 2000 he was the state curator of Berlin.

Life

Helmut Engel studied art history at the University of Göttingen and received his doctorate there in 1964 with a dissertation on a building history topic. Afterwards he worked in the field of monument preservation in Lower Saxony . In 1966 he was appointed curator for the Hildesheim administrative district . In 1972 he was appointed the first state curator in Berlin. He campaigned for a monument protection law for Berlin, which was then passed in 1977. Until his retirement in 2000, Engel was head of the Supreme Monument Protection Authority in Berlin. Engel was the managing director of the Berlin Monument Protection Foundation and a member of the board of trustees of the Ernst Freiberger Foundation .

He was an honorary professor for cityscape maintenance at the Art History Institute of the Free University of Berlin .

Publications (selection)

  • 1965: The Katlenburg , German art publisher
  • 1971: The Cistercian monastery Amelungsborn, Deutscher Kunstverlag, until 1978, 6 editions.
  • 1995: "There were pods and carrots" or: The Russians were just suddenly there.
  • 1995: Berlin - where from where? Or: close to it is also over! Gebrüder Mann, Berlin, ISBN 3-7861-1833-7 .
  • 1997: Berlin on the way to modernity, Jovis, Berlin, ISBN 3-931321-84-3 .
  • 1998: Center of the State: Castle and Castle District in Berlin, Jovis, Berlin, ISBN 3-931321-94-0 .
  • 2004: The house of the German emperor: the "Old Palace" Unter den Linden in Berlin, Braun, Berlin, ISBN 3-935455-52-6 .
  • 2005: The Charlottenburger Tor - gate to one of the “most beautiful streets in the world”, 2Stiftung Denkmalschutz, Berlin, ISBN 3-00-016993-8 .
  • 2007: The comrades were there and the others weren't: the end of the war and the post-war period in the south-east of Berlin; Rahnsdorf, Wilhelmshagen, Hessenwinkel, BWV, Berliner Wissenschaft-Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-8305-1363-6 .
  • 2007: with Alexander Kissler , Volker Koop , Antje Korsmeier: Thomas Mann - Heroes without swords , ed. v. the Ernst Freiberger Foundation, ISBN 978-3-937233-39-0 , together
  • 2009: Building History Berlin, Volume 1, Rise, Claim, Awakening: 1640–1861, JOVIS Verlag Berlin, ISBN 978-3-936314-15-1
  • 2004: Building History Berlin, Volume 2, upheaval, search, reforms: 1861–1918, JOVIS Verlag Berlin, ISBN 978-3-936314-16-8
  • 2007: Building History Berlin, Volume 3, Modernism, Reaction, Reconstruction: 1919–1970, JOVIS Verlag Berlin, ISBN 978-3-936314-17-5
  • 2013: The village church as a work of art: Village churches in the vicinity of Berlin and Potsdam: Schinkel - Persius - Stüler - Soller, Trafo, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86465-026-0 .
  • 2013: with Gudrun Fritsch, Josephine Gabler: Käthe Kollwitz - Heroes without swords , ed. v. the Ernst Freiberger Foundation, ISBN 978-3-95410-014-9 , together

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary in Der Tagesspiegel No. 23960 of September 29, 2019. P. 15.
  2. ↑ State curator Helmut Engel resigns from office - preservation of monuments as avant-garde , Berliner Zeitung , May 24, 2000
personal data
SURNAME Angel, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Northeim
DATE OF DEATH 19th September 2019
Place of death Berlin