Irmgard pupil

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Irmgard Schüler (born July 12, 1907 in Bochum ; died in the 20th century) was a German-Israeli art historian.

Life

Irmgard Schüler was a daughter of the Bochum private banker Oskar Schüler (1879–1929) and Martha Liebhold. Her grandfather Hermann Schüler (1840-1926) came from Balve and founded a bank in Bochum during the Wilhelminian boom in 1872 , which after the death of Oskar Schülers was run by his older brother Paul Schüler (1876-1942). The bank went bankrupt in 1932 during the Great Depression. Paul Schüler owned an important collection of paintings by contemporary artists, including art that was considered degenerate art under National Socialism . The collection was part of the bankruptcy estate and was largely sold until 1939, a small part remained in the family's possession, it was sold piece by piece under the pressure of the German persecution of Jews to ensure survival, the remaining pictures were stolen by the German police and are disappeared since then. Paul Schüler and his wife were victims of the Holocaust in 1942 , their two children were able to emigrate to the USA. They were compensated in 1955 in reparation proceedings in accordance with German administrative practice at the time.

Irmgard Schüler attended the upper secondary school in Bochum and studied art history, archeology and history in Heidelberg, Munich, Berlin and Bonn from 1927 and received his doctorate in Bonn in 1932 with Paul Clemen with a dissertation on the master of the love gardens . She found employment at the Suermondt Museum in Aachen , but was dismissed for racist reasons in 1933 after power was handed over to the National Socialists. From 1934 to 1938 she worked as an assistant at the Jewish Museum Berlin . She also worked as a librarian for the Jewish Community in Berlin . With Franz Landsberger , who took over the management of Erna Stein-Blumenthal in 1935 , and the freelance curator Rahel Wischnitzer-Bernstein , she realized exhibitions and edited the collections under the adverse conditions of rampant anti-Semitism. After the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, the museum was forcibly closed.

With her mother, Schüler managed to emigrate to Palestine . She was employed in the Jewish administration in the mandate area from 1942 and became an administrative officer when the State of Israel was founded. After her retirement in 1962, she returned to art history.

Fonts

  • The master of love gardens. A contribution to early Dutch painting . Amsterdam: Munster, 1932
  • The Jewish leather tailor Meis Jafe . In: Jüdische Rundschau . 1934, No. 78/79
  • The Jewish Museum. Twenty years of Jewish art show . In: Israelitisches Familienblatt , February 25, 1937, p. 16a
  • A note on Jewish gold glasses . In: Journal of glass studies. The Corning Museum of Glass. 8.1966, pp. 48-61, ISSN  0075-4250
  • An unknown engraving by the master of the love gardens . In: Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch , 30.1968, pp. 345-348, ISSN  0083-7105
  • Jewish gold glasses, early fragments of Jewish art . In: Jewish Art Journal , 1977, 1, pp. 28-32, ISSN  0160-208X

literature

  • Schüler, Irmgard , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Art Historians in Exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 626f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hubert Schneider: Jewish families in Bochum - their significance for the development of the city , in: Bochumer Zeite. Contributions to city history, local history and monument preservation No. 23, Bochum 2009, pp. 3–24, excerpt , PDF
  2. ^ Inka Bertz: The first Jewish Museum in Berlin , Jewish Museum Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Student, Irmgard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Disciple, Judith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli art historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH 20th century