Julius Baum

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Julius Baum (born April 9, 1882 in Wiesbaden , † October 27, 1959 in Stuttgart ) was a German art historian , university professor and museum director.

Life

The Ulm Museum as it is today. Julius Baum was its founding director between 1924 and 1933.
The Württemberg State Museum in Stuttgart, which Julius Baum was director from 1947 to 1952. In 1947, however, the museum was still called the Württemberg State Museum .

After studying art history at the universities of Munich , Berlin and Tübingen , he was assistant and curator at the Württembergisches Landesmuseum in Stuttgart from 1908 to 1922 , which at that time was called the “State Collection for Patriotic Art and Antiquity Monuments”. The doctorate took place in 1905 at the University of Tübingen with Konrad von Lange . The dissertation was entitled "The churches of the architect Heinrich Schickhardt " . The habilitation took place in Stuttgart in 1912 with Heinrich Weizsäcker .

From 1911 he was a lecturer at the Stuttgart Art Academy . He took part in the First World War as a war volunteer from 1914 to 1918 . From 1918 to 1933 he taught as associate professor for medieval art history at the Technical University of Stuttgart . After he had published a work on Ulm art in 1911 , he was appointed to Ulm in 1923 . Until his politically forced early retirement in 1933, he was director of the Ulm Museum there .

On March 18, 1933, Baum was given a leave of absence with immediate effect. He received his final dismissal at the end of May 1933. After the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, Baum was temporarily interned in the Welzheim protective custody camp and in 1939 emigrated to Bern , Switzerland .

Theodor Heuss , the then Minister of Culture (then Minister of Culture ) in Württemberg-Baden , called him back to Stuttgart soon after the war ended, so that Baum returned to Germany in October 1946. Julius Baum was director of the Württemberg State Museum from 1947 to 1952.

He died on October 27, 1959. He found his final resting place in the family grave of his wife in Esslingen am Neckar .

Honor

  • In 1952 he received the Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the same year the commemorative publication New Contributions to Archeology and Art History of Swabia was published in his honor .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage of the Wiesbaden City Archives , accessed on June 11, 2015
  2. ^ Julius Baum: Ulmer Kunst , Stuttgart-Leipzig 1911
  3. ^ Erwin Treu: History of the Ulm Museum. In: Ulmer Museum. Catalogs of the Ulmer Museum, Catalog I, Sculpture and Painting from the 13th Century to 1600 , Ulm 1981, p. 12
  4. ↑ Südwest-Presse Ulm on July 19, 2008 ( Memento from September 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Homepage of the Wiesbaden City Archives , accessed on June 11, 2015
  6. ↑ Homepage of the Wiesbaden City Archives , accessed on June 11, 2015
  7. ^ New contributions to the archeology and art history of Swabia. Dedicated to Julius Baum on the occasion of his 70th birthday on April 9, 1952. Stuttgart 1952
personal data
SURNAME Baum, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1959
Place of death Stuttgart