Karl Koetschau

Karl Koetschau (drawn by Werner Schramm , 1948)

Karl Theodor Koetschau (born March 27, 1868 in Ohrdruf , † April 17, 1949 in Düsseldorf ) was a German art historian and museum director .

Life

Koetschau spent his youth in Munich, Nuremberg and Zwickau, where he graduated from high school in 1888. He then studied art history and archeology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn . In 1893 he was awarded a doctorate with his dissertation " Barthel Beham and the Masters of Messkirch ". phil. PhD . From 1909 to 1913 Koetschau headed the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin. From 1913 to 1934 he was director of the Düsseldorf City Art Collection, today's Museum Kunstpalast , and at the same time director of the Hetjens Museum and the Historical Museum until 1926 .

On the initiative of Koetschau together with Gustav Pauli and Georg Swarzenski , the German Museum Association was founded on May 23, 1917 by 22 invited heads of art and cultural history museums at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main . For the Wallraf Richartz yearbook of the museum of the same name, he wrote articles on art history topics, including the Claude Lorrain drawings that JW von Goethe owned from the Weimar National Museum (published in 1930).

literature

• Paul Clemen , Karl Woermann and others: Karl Koetschau. From his friends and admirers on his 60th birthday on March 27, 1928. Contributions to the history of art, culture and literature . Publishing house of the Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1928.
• Britta-R. Schwahn:  Koetschau, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 410 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Karl Koetschau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Newspaper article about Karl Koetschau in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

s. JStor, no.24364312