Hermann Schnitzler

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Hermann Joseph Schnitzler (born January 13, 1905 in Monschau ; † December 15, 1976 in Cologne ) was a German art historian .

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Hermann Schnitzler came from a Monschau cloth maker family. He attended the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in Aachen , where he passed the Abitur in 1924. He first began studying music in Stuttgart , then he studied art history at the University of Berlin with Adolph Goldschmidt and at the University of Bonn with Paul Clemen . In this he was in 1930 with a thesis on medieval goldsmith doctorate . He was then briefly assistant to Wilhelm Koehler at Harvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts) , before he was involved in the inventory of the art monuments of the Rhineland from 1934 to 1935 (processing of the district of Koblenz ). It is thanks to him that the Bassenheimer Reiter was identified as an early work by the Naumburg master .

From 1936 Schnitzler worked at the Schnütgen Museum in Cologne, initially as an assistant, from 1937 as curator , from 1953 to 1970 he was director of the museum. Due to the Second World War, he initially mainly worked for the recovery and securing of works of art in his museum and the city of Cologne. In May 1956 he was able to reopen the museum in a new exhibition in the Romanesque church of St. Cäcilien .

Schnitzler was involved in numerous exhibitions of medieval sacred art in the post-war period, including in 1956 the exhibition on early medieval art of the West Ending on the Rhine and Ruhr in Essen . Schnitzler taught at the University of Bonn as a lecturer since 1948 and was appointed honorary professor for art history in 1954.

The focus of his research was the early and high medieval treasure art of the Rhine-Maas area. In particular, he made significant contributions to research into goldsmithing in the 12th and 13th centuries, medieval ivory carving and, in particular, Ottonian book illumination .

Schnitzler was also interested in modern art and music. He was friends with the Cologne painters Josef Fassbender , Hubert Berke and Hann Trier . He advised numerous collectors on building up their art collections, such as Wilhelm Hack , Ernst Kofler , Peter and Irene Ludwig , Heinrich and Walter Neuerburg, and Herrmann and Maria Schwartz .

Schnitzler was born in 1968 with Helga Olga Hedwig Liselotte. Lafrenz married. He died in 1976 at the age of 71 in his apartment in Cologne-Lindenthal .

Publications (selection)

  • The goldsmith sculpture of the Aachen shrine workshop. Contribution to the development of goldsmithing in the Rhine-Maas area in the Romanesque period . Düren 1934 (= dissertation).
  • An unknown equestrian relief from the circle of the Naumburg master , in: Zeitschrift des Deutschen Verein für Kunstwissenschaft 2, 1935, pp. 398–423.
  • with Hans Erich Kubach , Fritz Michel: The art monuments of the district of Koblenz. (= Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz Vol. 16, 3) L. Schwan, Düsseldorf 1944 (reprint 1981, ISBN 3-590-32142-3 ).
  • Aachen Cathedral . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1950.
  • Ancient art in the Schnütgen Museum . Tellus, Essen 1956.
  • Rhenish treasury . 2 volumes. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1957 and 1959
  • Great medieval art from private ownership , exhibition catalog, Schnütgen Museum Cologne 1960
  • with Peter Bloch : The Ottonian Cologne School of Painting . 2 volumes. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1967 and 1970.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death certificate no. 3739 from December 20, 1976, registry office Cologne West. LAV NRW R civil status register, accessed on June 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Schnitzler, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schnitzler, Hermann Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Monschau
DATE OF DEATH 15th December 1976
Place of death Cologne