Herbert Zschelletzschky

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Herbert Georg Zschelletzschky (born September 25, 1902 in Waldheim , † July 22, 1986 in Marienbad ) was a German art historian .

Life and activities until 1933

Herbert Georg Zschelletzschky was born in 1902 as the eldest son of the dentist Georg Zschelletzschky and his wife Martha, nee. Pohorzeleck, born in Waldheim in Saxony. He attended the community school there and, while his parents moved to Leipzig, temporarily attended the community school in Oschatz. From 1913 to 1922 he was a student at the Thomas Gymnasium in Leipzig, which he left with the school-leaving certificate. He then volunteered and worked in a Leipzig book printing company in preparation for studying art history. In 1923 Herbert Zschelletzschky began to study art history, philosophy and education at the University of Leipzig . He has heard lectures from Hermann Beenken , Leo Bruhns and Wilhelm Pinder, among others . In 1932 he received his doctorate on Heinrich Aldegrevers' figurative graphics . From 1922 to 1926 Herbert Zschelletzschky also attended the evening school of the Leipzig Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Industry ( University of Graphic and Book Art Leipzig ). He has been a freelance journalist since the late 1920s.

During the National Socialism

In early 1933 he married Helene Scheibe (born October 29, 1899 in Pokrowskaja Sloboda , Russia ; † April 22, 1955 in Berlin). With her and their daughter Leonore, who had meanwhile been born, he moved to Breslau in 1934 . In Breslau he worked as a culture editor for the newspaper Schlesische Sonntagspost . In 1939 he moved to Berlin. Here he found a job as a cultural editor for the newspaper Die Grüne Post . For the story Johannes, the town clerk of Saaz , he was one of five winners in 1941, when he received third prize in the “Narrator Awards” category of the Adalbert Stifter Prize of the Prague magazine Böhmen und Moravia published by Volk-und-Reich-Verlag . It was published in 1943.

At the beginning of 1943 Herbert Zschelletzschky was drafted into the Wehrmacht. He was stationed in southern France from autumn 1943 and was briefly imprisoned by the United States in spring 1945, from which he was released at the end of May 1945.

Soviet occupation zone and GDR

From autumn 1945 Herbert Zschelletzschky worked in Berlin for the Soviet News Office (SNB), from 1948 for the General German Intelligence Service (ADN). He was head of the culture department there until the mid-1950s, then for a short time at the GDR television network. From the mid-1950s until 1972, Zschelletzschky was a lecturer and research assistant at the Institute for Art History at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1975 he published the three godless painters of Nuremberg, a much-cited study on "historical foundations and iconological problems" of the graphics by Sebald Beham , Barthel Beham and Georg Pencz . To this day, the book is regarded as a fundamental study for the discovery and development of the possible effects and emancipatory power of printmaking.

Herbert and Helene Zschelletzschky have three daughters, Leonore Krenzlin , Regine Bender and Ottilie Krug.

Publications

Books

  • Together with Stefan Sturm and Walter Pollak, Ballade am Berg - Johannes der Stadtschreiber von Saaz - a citizen in Prague (series "German narrators"), Volk und Reich Verlag: Prague / Amsterdam / Berlin / Vienna 1943
  • The figurative graphic of Heinrich Aldegrever . A contribution to his style in the context of the German style development. Strasbourg 1933, new edition Baden-Baden 1974
  • Maria Maja. Novellas about Goya, Rembrandt and Giorgione. Wilhelm Kumm Verlag, Offenbach am Main 1937
  • The three godless painters of Nuremberg. Sebald Beham, Barthel Beham and Georg Pencz. Historical bases and iconological problems of your graphics on the Reformation and Peasants' War, Leipzig 1975

Articles (selection)

  • Preliminary battle of the Reformation image battle. On Cranach's woodcut "Himmelwagen und Höllenwagen des Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt" from 1519. In: Peter Heinz Feist, Ernst Ulmann, Gerhard Brendler (eds.), Lucas Cranach. Artists and Society, Wittenberg 1972, pp. 102-106
  • Her heart was on the side of the peasants. The fate of artists and their work during the Peasants' War. In: Gerhard Heitz, Adolf Laube, Max Steinmetz, Günter Vogler (eds.), The farmer in the class struggle. Studies on the history of the German peasant war and the peasant class struggles in late feudalism, Berlin 1975, pp. 333–375
  • The time to talk has come. Luther's Gravamina as reflected in contemporary graphics. In: Günter Vogler in collaboration with Siegfried Hoyer and Adolf Laube, Martin Luther. Life, work, effect, Berlin 1983, pp. 121–146
  • Pope throne, lifeline and giant feather. Three vigorous Reformation battle picture motifs. In: Association of visual artists of the German Democratic Republic (ed.), Visual arts, Berlin 1983, no. 5, pp. 218–222

Awards

  • 1952: Medal for excellent performance

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helga Mitterbauer, Nazi literary prizes for Austrian authors. A documentation, Vienna 1998, p. 73.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Müller, Thomas Schauerte (ed.), The godless painters of Nuremberg. Convention and subversion in the graphics of the Beham brothers, Nuremberg 2011, cf. u. a. The preface.
  3. ↑ Michael Minholz, Uwe Stirnberg: The General German Intelligence Service (ADN). Good news for the SED (= Communication and Politics , Volume 27). KG Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-20557-0 , p. 430
personal data
SURNAME Zschelletzschky, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zschelletzschky, Herbert Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldheim , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1986
Place of death Marienbad , Czechoslovakia