Irma Emmrich

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Irma Helene Emmrich (born September 14, 1919 in Dresden as Irma Helene Goldate ; † August 13, 2018 ) was a German art historian and professor at the TU Dresden .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1938 at the Clara Schumann School in Dresden, she did her Reich Labor Service in 1938/39 and began as a trainee in the Gäbel machine factory in Dresden in 1939. She then worked as a secretary in a transport equipment factory in her hometown until 1942.

From 1943 Emmrich studied pedagogy at the college for teacher training and graduated in 1945 with the state examination. From 1945 to 1949 she worked as a teacher and headmistress in Dresden and Freital. In 1948 she passed the examination for higher education and taught at the Dresden-Reick Oberschule from 1950.

In 1952 she became lecturer for German at the Dresden University of Transport. In 1954 she did her doctorate in Jena and in the same year became senior assistant at the Institute for Social Sciences at the TH Dresden. In 1958 she took over a lectureship in Marxist aesthetics there. Two years later she completed her habilitation in Jena. In 1966 she was appointed professor with teaching assignment in Dresden, and three years later she became a full professor of art studies in the Philosophy and Cultural Studies section at the TU Dresden. In 1980 she retired.

family

Emmrich was married to the literary scholar Christian Emmrich since 1952 in his second marriage . The couple had a son and a daughter. The widowed Irma Ackermann brought a daughter from her first marriage.

Works

  • Caspar David Friedrich . Böhlau, Weimar 1964
  • Werner Tübke: Creativity and Legacy. A study of the reception of Christian imagery in the artist's work . Union Verlag, Berlin 1976
  • Rudolf Nehmer: Poetry and Parable . Union-Verlag, Berlin 1977
  • Worldview and aesthetic structure . Verlag der Kunst Dresden, Dresden 1982
  • El Greco . Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1987
  • Tintoretto: the world of his pictures . P. Reclam, Leipzig 1988
  • Carl Blechen . CH Beck, Munich 1989
  • Masterpieces of Spanish painting: from Lluis Dalmau to Francisco Goya . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1997

literature

  • Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , pp. 188 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Gerhard Rostin : Interview of the week with Professor Dr. Irma Emmrich, art scholar at the TU Dresden.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CV Christian Emmrich , TU Dresden, accessed on August 28, 2018
  2. ^ In: Neue Zeit , September 8, 1979, p. 7
personal data
SURNAME Emmrich, Irma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emmrich, Irma Helene (full name); Goldate, Irma Helene (maiden name); Emmerich, Irma (wrong name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and professor at the TU Dresden
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 13th August 2018