Herbert von Buttlar

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Herbert von Buttlar (born October 2, 1912 in Stendal , † July 24, 1976 in Arlesheim , with full name Herbert Freiherr Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels ) was a German classical archaeologist and science manager.

Life

His parents were the royal Prussian major general Walter Freiherr Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels (* October 4, 1865 - March 29, 1954) and Margarethe Damms (* July 7, 1874 - November 15, 1945). His father was the commander of the Magdeburg Hussar Regiment No. 10, which was stationed in Stendal. The Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels belong to the Althessian knighthood that still exists today .

Buttlar attended the Wilhelmsgymnasium Kassel . He studied archeology, classical philology, German and art history in Marburg, Munich, Frankfurt, Bonn, Berlin and Leipzig. In 1941 he received his doctorate.

In 1939 he became a research assistant at the Athens Department of the German Archaeological Institute , and from 1946 to 1948 he was an assistant at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Marburg . Since 1948 he was curator of the antique collection of the Hessian State Museum Kassel . In 1953 he was appointed to Club 53 by Arnold Bode . He was general secretary of documenta I in 1955, and he also taught at the Staatliche Werkakademie in Kassel. For 1949/50 he was awarded the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute . From 1956 to 1964 he was Secretary General of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and in 1960 played down the SS membership of jury member Hans Egon Holthusen when Mascha Kaléko refused to accept the Fontane Prize on his account. Von Buttlar recommended that the emigrants stay away if they did not like it. This was one of his "difficulties with his so appreciable spontaneities" mentioned in the obituary of the Hamburger Abendblatt in 1976, which contrasted with the diplomatic skills that were otherwise so admired in him. In 1964 von Buttlar became director of the Hamburg Art School . During the time of the student movement and the general reform movements, he was one of the initiators of the new version of the Hamburg University Constitution and was appointed President of the HfbK for six years after its adoption in 1973, but died in 1976 in a sanatorium in Switzerland.

Since 1942 Buttlar was married to Agnes Maria, geb. Young, and had four children with her, u. a. Adrian von Buttlar , who became an art historian.

Publications (selection)

  • Greek heads . Marburg 1948.
  • The Kassel antiquities. Sculptures - bronzes - terracottas - vases . Kassel 1948.
  • Ancient plastic and contemporary plastic . In: Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 15, 1949/50, pp. 251–272.

literature

  • Jürgen M. Lehmann: Biographies of the scientific staff at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Kassel 1913–1988 . In: Art in Hessen and am Mittelrhein 28, 1988, p. 160.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. XV. Edition of Degeners who is it ?, Berlin 1967, p. 258.
  2. ↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . XV. Edition of Degeners who is it ?, Berlin 1967, p. 258.
  3. ↑ Jan Koneffke : "But why are you so serious?" , in NZZ March 16, 2013, p. 29.
  4. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/archiv/1976/article201540171/Er-schuf-ein-Modell-fuer-Kunsthochschulen.html Hamburger Abendblatt from July 28, 1976, He created a model for art universities
  5. ↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. XV. Edition of Degeners who is it ?, Berlin 1967, p. 258.
personal data
SURNAME Buttlar, Herbert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buttlar-Brandenfels, Herbert Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist and science manager
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Stendal
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1976
Place of death Arlesheim