Ingrid Szeiklies-Weber

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Ingrid Szeiklies-Weber (born April 13, 1932 in Gera ) is a German art historian who specializes in post-ancient medals and gems .

Life

Ingrid Weber, daughter of a textile manufacturer, studied art history, history and archeology in the GDR since 1952 at the University of Halle and since 1954 at the Humboldt University in East Berlin, where she passed the state examination with Richard Hamann in 1956 with a thesis on the painter Heinrich Reinhold . In 1956/57 she was a research assistant at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . She then left the GDR and began studying at Mainz University in 1959 , where she received her doctorate in 1964 under Friedrich Gerke with a thesis on the late Gothic monstrance of the church in Tiefenbronn .

Since 1969 she has worked as a curator at the State Coin Collection in Munich . Here she was particularly responsible for the post-antique medals and plaques as well as gems and published basic catalogs of the holdings of the State Coin Collection. In 1997 she retired as chief curator.

Ingrid Szeiklies-Weber initiated in 1988 in collaboration with the graphic artist and medalist Reinhart Heinsdorff to the State Coin Collection Munich affiliated artists among the medalists in Munich in order to "raise the medal to a new level of artistic design." The traveling exhibition Riser breakthrough for which Ingrid Szeiklies- Weber and Wolfgang Steguweit published the catalog on the subject of " Topics designed by sculptors and medalists from the GDR and the Federal Republic from the ' Wende-Zeit '" ", was at the same time the prelude to the establishment of the German Society for Medal Art .

The artist G. Angelika Wetzel , who belongs to the group of artists , created a medal for Ingrid Szeiklies-Weber in 1992 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Heinrich Reinhold (1788-1825). A German romantic. His life and artistic development from the beginning to the move to Rome . Diploma thesis, Humboldt University Berlin 1956.
  • The Tiefenbronn monstrance and its artistic circle . Dissertation Mainz 1964 (printed in: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums 1966, pp. 7–87).
  • German, Dutch and French Renaissance plaques. 1500-1650. Models for reliefs on cult, showpiece and everyday objects . 2 volumes, Bruckmann, Munich 1975. Illustrated volume: ISBN 3-7654-1492-1 . Text volume: ISBN 3-7654-1462-X .
  • with Oluf Wif: Planetary Festival August the Strong. For the wedding of the Crown Prince in 1719 . Battenberg, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-87045-944-1 table of contents .
  • Maximilian Dasio. 1865-1954. Munich painter, medalist and ministerial advisor , accompanying publication for the exhibition from October 9th to December 1st 1985 in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich. Staatliche Münzsammlung, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-9800744-1-2 Table of contents .
  • Raymond Corbin. Designs, medailles, sculptures , exhibition catalog. Staatliche Münzsammlung, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-9800744-7-1
  • with Wolfgang Steguweit : departure, breakthrough. Time signs in German medal art. Medals, reliefs, small sculptures , exhibition catalog in cooperation between the State Coin Collection in Munich and the Coin Cabinet of the State Museums in Berlin. State Coin Collection, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-922840-00-0 .
  • Precious stones. The gem collection of Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-422-06090-1
  • Cut stones from the 18th to 20th centuries. Forgotten treasures in the State Coin Collection in Munich . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-422-06160-6 .
  • Cut stones from old Bavarian property. Cameos and intaglios from the 15th to 17th centuries in the State Coin Collection in Munich . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-422-06304-8 Table of contents .

literature

  • Matthias Barth: List of publications Ingrid Szeiklies-Weber . In: Geldgeschichtliche Nachrichten 179, 1997, pp. 146–151 and 233, 2007, pp. 146–147. 150–151 ( digitized version ).
  • Eva Wipplinger: Ingrid Szeiklies-Weber . In: Numismatisches Nachrichtenblatt 46, 1997, p. 167.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Munich Medalists' Circle of Artists ( Memento from February 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), on the website of the Munich State Coin Collection.
  2. ↑ Awakening Breakthrough (1990) on the website of the German Society for Medal Art with an illustration of the catalog title.
  3. ↑ Ingrid S. Weber: G. Angelika Wetzel - Hilde Broër Prize Winner 2008. On the relationship between medal and sculpture in the work of the sculptor , in: Wolfgang Steguweit (Ed.): Hilde Broër Prize for Medal Art. Exhibition of the award winners 2005–2008 (= The Art Medal in Germany , Vol. 26). German Society for Medal Art , ISBN 978-3-9804329-2-4 , pp. 71–90, here: pp. 80 (illustration), 81 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Szeiklies-Weber, Ingrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weber, Ingrid (maiden name); S. Weber, Ingrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian specializing in post-ancient medals and gems
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera