Herbert Küas

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Herbert Küas (born July 5, 1900 in Leipzig ; † March 21, 1983 ibid) was a German art historian and archaeologist . He gains importance primarily through his regional historical research on the architecture of the Middle Ages in the Saxon area .

Life

Herbert Küas went to the Technical University in Munich at the age of 20 after completing his high school diploma belatedly due to military service in the First World War , where he studied architecture for a few semesters . This was followed by a study visit of several years in Italy from 1924, where he a. a. learned to sculpt. He then studied art history at the University of Leipzig , where he received his doctorate in 1935 with a thesis on sculpture from the 13th century in the cathedral in Meissen . This was followed by several publications on medieval architecture in Saxony, for example in 1937 on the Naumburg workshop .

Herbert Küas took part in the Second World War from 1939 . After his return due to injury in 1943, he worked as an assistant at the University of Leipzig, later as a lecturer at the State Building School in Leipzig. From 1950 he conducted research at the Institute for Monument Preservation and the State Museum for Prehistory in Dresden. He then worked from 1959 to 1965 at the Department of Art History at the German Academy of Sciences . He then retired, but presented numerous other publications that mainly dealt with the city center of Leipzig in the Middle Ages, selected problems of the older building history in the Leipzig region as well as the turn from Romanesque to Gothic and the interrelationships between architecture and sculpture.

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Preface in: The Sebaldusgrab zu Nürnberg (= Insel-Bücherei , 330). Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1920, (3rd, modified edition, ibid 1965).
  • The Naumburg workshop (= research on German art history. 26, ZDB -ID 573060-0 ). Recordings by Erich Kirsten. German Association for Art History, Berlin 1937.
  • The masterpieces in Naumburg Cathedral. Recordings by Erich Kirsten. EA sailor 1938.
  • Meissen Cathedral. Architecture and sculptures . Recordings by Erich Kirsten. EA sailor 1939.
  • Preface in: The Golden Gate to Freiberg (= Insel-Bücherei. 179). Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1943.
  • The old Leipzig from an archaeological point of view (= publications of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden. Volume 14, ISSN  0070-7201 ). German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1976.
  • with Manfred Kobuch : Round chapels of Wiprecht von Groitzsch. Building and history (= publications of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden. Vol. 15). German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1977.

literature

  • Werner Coblenz: Herbert Küas 1900–1983. In: Work and research reports on Saxon soil monument maintenance 27/28, 1984, pp. 7–12 (with list of publications).
  • Manfred Unger : Herbert Küas in memory. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter . Volume 30, No. 1, 1984, pp. 42-43.
  • Manfred Unger: Herbert Küas. Archaeologist and art historian . In: Wolfgang Hocquél (Ed.): Archeology and Architecture. Early Leipzig . Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2003, ISBN 3-934544-49-5 , pp. 7-42.

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personal data
SURNAME Küas, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1983
Place of death Leipzig