Josef Ringler

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Josef Ringler (born January 27, 1893 in Innsbruck ; † January 9, 1973 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian art historian and folklorist .

Life

Josef Ringler edited the magazine Der Krippenfreund when he was still a student at the high school in Innsbruck . He studied history and art history at the University of Innsbruck , where he received his doctorate on July 9, 1921, and then went on to study at the universities of Munich and Cologne. From 1923 to 1929 he was assistant to Heinrich Hammer (1873–1953) at the Art History Institute of the University of Innsbruck , during this time he was also responsible for the reorganization of the picture gallery of the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum . From 1929 until his impeachment for political reasons on March 16, 1938, he was director of the Tyrolean Folk Art Museum in Innsbruck. From 1933 he was a member of the administrative committee of the Ferdinandeum. In 1939/40, Ringler, who belonged to the Bolzano Museum Association , acted together with Nicolò Rasmo as a member of a commission that was supposed to transfer the association collections at the Bolzano City Museum to the German Empire , provided that they were classified as “German” cultural assets under Article 27 of the South Tyrolean Option Agreement . In 1940 he became head of working group XII (art, museums, folklore) of the South Tyrolean cultural commission of the SS-Ahnenerbe at the main office in Bolzano of the official German immigration and return office . Since autumn 1943 he has headed the monument office for the province of Bolzano , since May 29, 1944 also the Soprintendenza ai Monumenti e Gallerie in Trento .

From 1945 to 1959 he was again director of the Tyrolean Folk Art Museum. In 1952 he was made an honorary member of the University of Innsbruck, in 1954 he became an honorary curator for the preservation of monuments in Tyrol, and in 1955 he received the title of Hofrat . In 1959 he received the Franz von Wieser Medal from the Ferdinandeum, and in 1962 the Medal of Honor from the State of Tyrol .

From Volume 14, 1921 to Volume 37, 1950 he wrote numerous articles on artists from Tyrol for the Thieme-Becker artist lexicon .

Publications (selection)

  • Catalog of the painting collection . Ferdinandeum Museum, Innsbruck 1928.
  • Wrought iron grave crosses. A selection from the end of the late Gothic to the Empire . Tyrolia, Innsbruck / Munich 1931.
  • German Christmas cribs . 1929.
  • Tyrolean cribs of our time . 1966.
  • Old Tyrolean Christmas cribs. To know about their historical, folkloric and artistic development . Wagner, Innsbruck / Munich 1969.
  • The baroque panel painting in Tyrol. Attempt of a topographical-statistical overview . Wagner, Munich 1973.

literature

  • Gerhard Oberkofler: The historical subjects at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Innsbruck 1850-1945 . Österreichische Kommissionsbuchhandlung, Innsbruck 1969, pp. 210–211.
  • Franz Huter : Josef Ringler . In: Tiroler Heimat 37, 1973, pp. 191–192.
  • Heinrich Braun: Directory of the works of Josef Ringler . In: Der Schlern 47, 1973, pp. 4–10.
  • Michael Wedekind: Art protection and art theft in the spirit of expansion and revenge: National Socialist cultural policy in the "Operational Zones Alpine Foreland" and "Adriatic Coastal Land" 1943–1945 . In: Christian Fuhrmeister, Johannes Griebel, Stephan Klingen, Ralf Peters (eds.): Art historians in the war. German Military Art Protection in Italy 1943–1945 (= publications of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich 29). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-412-20804-2 , p. 164. 170 note 50.
  • Elena Franchi: Trust and distrust: the difficult relationship between the Italian Social Republic and the 'art protection'. Some controversial cases . In: Christian Fuhrmeister, Johannes Griebel, Stephan Klingen, Ralf Peters (eds.): Art historians in the war. German Military Art Protection in Italy 1943–1945 (= publications of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich 29). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-412-20804-2 , pp. 117, 121.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Sabrina Michielli, Hannes Obermair (Red.): BZ '18 –'45: one monument, one city, two dictatorships. Accompanying volume for the documentation exhibition in the Bolzano Victory Monument . Folio Verlag, Vienna-Bozen 2016, ISBN 978-3-85256-713-6 , p. 65 .
  2. ↑ Josef Ringler: Tyrol's contribution to Thieme-Becker . In: Festschrift Hans Vollmer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1957, pp. 25-36.
personal data
SURNAME Ringler, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian and folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1973
Place of death innsbruck