Art monument

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According to the Duden, art monument is in common usage today :

“Buildings, plastic, etc. of artistic and historical value. "

In the first half of the 19th century , private antiquity associations came together with the aim of "finding, preserving, explaining and depicting historically or artistically important monuments of the patriotic prehistory", such as the Royal Saxon Research Association founded in the Kingdom of Saxony in 1825 and preservation of patriotic antiquities .

The concept of (patriotic) antiquities was split up in the course of the fundamental inventory that took place in the second half of that century : The commissioned inventories of architectural and art monuments (e.g. Richard Steche and Cornelius Gurlitt : Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony . 41 vol., Meinhold, Dresden 1882–1923.) Made a distinction between the buildings worth preserving ( monuments such as simple churches, mansions, winegrowers' houses etc.) and the art treasures and artistic monuments worth preserving (art monuments such as richly ornamented churches with interior fittings, richly decorated castles, statues and equestrian monuments). However, this division was not mandatory. In 1900, the first day for the preservation of monuments commissioned the art historian Georg Dehio with the task of compiling a nationwide manual of all protected monuments as a quick inventory , the manual of German art monuments .

The term cultural monument appears later, for example in the name of the Saxon Heritage Protection Act passed in 1934: Act for the protection of art, cultural and natural monuments .

Web links

Wikisource: Monuments of Art  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. Kunstdenkmal, das. In: Duden , accessed on October 28, 2012.
  2. Rosemarie Pohlack: Diversity and values ​​of the Saxon monument landscape.
  3. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Volume I. Central Germany . Berlin 1905, p. III.