Hermann Deckert

Hermann Siegfried Joachim Deckert (born August 31, 1899 in Samtens on Rügen , † November 11, 1955 in Hanover ) was a German art historian and monument conservator .

Life

Hermann Deckert studied art history at the University of Marburg with Richard Hamann . There he received his doctorate there in 1927 on Die Lübeck-Baltic Sculpture in the early 16th century and completed his habilitation there in the following year. Until the winter semester of 1933/34 he taught as a private lecturer at the art history seminar. He was given leave of absence in 1934 and renounced the venia legendi after being accused of embezzlement . His Marburg colleague Karl Löwith described him in his memoirs as "one of our most talented young lecturers".

Deckert went to Hanover and, starting in 1934, made an inventory of the art monuments in the province of Hanover . He was first acting provincial curator, in 1939 finally provincial curator, and in 1946 Lower Saxony State Curator . In his role, he had parts of the St. Michaels Church in Hildesheim outsourced and thus protected it from destruction in the Second World War . After the war, like Rudolf Hillebrecht , he assumed a position as state curator that was very critical of buildings from the turn of the century and the founding period . He described the houses on Karmaschstrasse as “shame of the Wilhelminian era”, and he would have liked to have the old market hall and the parsonage of the Kreuzkirche demolished if it hadn't been for the Second World War .

In 1949 Deckert was appointed professor for the history of architecture and art at the Technical University of Hanover , and from 1951 to 1952 he was the first rector of the humanities. Also in 1949 he was an expert jury member in the architecture competition for the reconstruction of the Hanover Opera House . In 1953 he was the founding chairman of the Laves Society . Since 1952 he was a full member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society .

Hermann Deckert was married to Anna Deckert.

Fonts (selection)

• Studies of Hanseatic sculpture in the early 16th century. In: Marburg Yearbook for Art History . Vol. 1, 1924, pp. 55-98.
• The Lübeck-Baltic sculpture in the early 16th century. In: Marburg Yearbook for Art History . Vol. 3, 1927, pp. 1-75 (= dissertation).
• with Robert Freyhan and Kurt Steinbart: Religious art from Hesse and Nassau: Critical general catalog of the exhibition Marburg 1928. 3 volumes, Art History Seminar Marburg / Lühe Leipzig 1928.
• On the concept of the portrait. In: Marburg Yearbook for Art History . 5, 1929, pp. 261-282.
• Opus interrasile as a pre-Romanesque technique. Art History Seminar Marburg, 1930.
• Merseburg Cathedral and Castle: Based on the results of the first art history training camp in Halle in 1934. Hopfer, Burg 1935.
• For old town recovery in Hanover. In: The preservation of monuments in the province of Hanover. 1936, p. 6ff.
• The art monuments of the province of Hanover. Vol. 27: The art monuments of the Soltau district. Self-published by the Provinzialverwaltung / Schulze, Hanover 1939. (Reprint: Wenner, Osnabrück 1980, ISBN 3-87898-188-0 )
• Some late Romanesque seated Madonnas in Lower Saxony. In: Festschrift Richard Hamann on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday May 29, 1939, presented by his students. Hopfer, Burg 1939, pp. 23-30.
• The village church in Niederhausen. 1940.
• with Hans Roggenkamp: The old Hanover. German Art Publishing House, Munich / Berlin 1952.

literature

• Obituary. In: Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt 1956, p. 73.
• Hans Vogel : Hermann Deckert. In: Kunstchronik 9, 1956, pp. 174–176.
• Catalogus professorum 1831-1981. Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Hanover , Vol. 2, Stuttgart 1981, p. 43.
• Stefanie Lindemeier: The performing art and church painters , as well as a short biography Deckert, Hermann Siegfried Joachim , in this: Studies on the restoration history of medieval vaults - and wall paintings in the area of ​​today's Lower Saxony: Representation of historical methods, technology and materials , dissertation 2009 at the university for fine arts Dresden, volume 2 (text volume), passim , v. a. P. 306f .; Digitized version of the Dresden University of Fine Arts

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Deckert in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Art history under National Socialism: Marburg. ( Memento of June 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved March 27, 2010
2. ^ Karl Löwith: My life in Germany before and after 1933. A report , newly edited by Frank-Rutger Hausmann , with a foreword by Reinhart Koselleck . 2nd Edition. 2007, ISBN 978-3-476-02181-6 , p. 69.
3. ↑ Hans-Georg Gadamer : Marburg Memories: IV. Teaching Years. In: alma mater philippina. Winter semester 1974/75, Marburg 1974, p. 22.
4. ^ Karl Löwith: My life in Germany before and after 1933. A report , p. 69.
5. ^ Friedrich Lindau: Planning and building in the 50s in Hanover. Schlütersche, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-87706-530-9 , p. 30.
6. ↑ Rector's speeches in the 19th and 20th centuries - online bibliography: Hermann Deckert , accessed on March 27, 2010
7. ^ Friedrich Lindau: Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural identity. Schlütersche, Hannover 2001, ISBN 3-87706-659-3 , p. 56.
8. ^ Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein: History of the city of Hanover. Schlütersche, Hannover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-319-5 , p. 236.