Hermann Board

Hermann Board

Hermann Board (born October 13, 1867 in Essen , † February 21, 1918 in Düsseldorf ) was a German architect and art historian .

Life

Hermann Board was the son of the master bricklayer Hermann Board († 1869) and attended the municipal secondary school in Essen. He then did a four-year apprenticeship as an architect and attended the municipal advanced training school in Essen, the commercial college in Cologne and the Technical University of Charlottenburg . He then spent seven years in the construction office of the Fried mining company . Krupp AG and also taught as a teacher in the construction classes at the municipal technical and advanced training schools in Essen. This was followed by four years as a freelance architect in Essen, before he studied art history at the University of Bonn with Paul Clemen , at the University of Strasbourg with Georg Dehio and at the University of Heidelberg with Henry Thode . In 1903 he was in Heidelberg with a dissertation on the Church of St. Mary in the Capitol in Cologne doctorate . In the same year he succeeded Friedrich Schaarschmidt as curator of the art collections, librarian and secretary of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he also taught art history. In 1908 he received the title of professor.

Fonts (selection)

• S. Maria in the Capitol of Cologne. A contribution to the history of early Romanesque architecture on the Lower Rhine . Dissertation, Heidelberg 1904. ( digitized version )

literature

• Hermann Board † . In: Die Christliche Kunst, monthly for all areas of Christian art and art history , 14, 1917/18, supplement p. 20.
• Prof. Dr. Hermann Board † . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , 52nd year 1918, p. 88.
• Obituary . In: Kunstchronik und Kunstmarkt, weekly for connoisseurs and collectors , 29, 1917/18, column 221.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Board in the bibliographic database WorldCat