Herbert Dreyer

Herbert Dreyer (born June 14, 1901 in Elmshorn ; † after 1970) was a German art historian .

Herbert Dreyer studied art history and received his doctorate in 1926 at the University of Göttingen under Georg Vitzthum von Eckstädt . In the 1930s he worked briefly as a research assistant at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin .

On June 23, 1945, he was appointed general director of the Berlin State Museums by the City of Berlin to succeed Otto Kümmel . On July 31 or August 7, 1945, however, he was recalled because he had been a member of the NSDAP . From the 1950s to the 1970s he worked as an art dealer in Berlin.

Publications

• About a late Romanesque psaltery from the Hildesheim art circle . In: Alt-Hildesheim 5, 1924, pp. 33-36.
• Josef Gregor Winck 1710–1781. A contribution to the history of baroque painting in Northern Germany (= Hildesheim Art Books 1). Lax, Hildesheim 1925 (dissertation).
• The porcelain painter August OE von dem Busch 1704–1779 . Lax, Hildesheim 1931.
• Christoph Heinrich Kniep . In: Alt-Hildesheim 17, 1938, pp. 33-39.

literature

• Günter Schade : The Berlin Museum Island. Destruction, rescue, reconstruction . Berlin 1986, p. 53.
• Petra Winter : »twin museums« in divided Berlin. On the post-war history of the National Museums in Berlin from 1945 to 1958 (= Yearbook of the Berlin Museums, 50th volume, booklet). Berlin 2008, p. 61.

Remarks

1. ↑ Excerpt from: Yearbook of the Philosophical Faculty of the Georg August University in Göttingen 1925, pp. 15-16.