Magdalene Rudolph

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Magdalene Rudolph (born August 1, 1901 in Erfurt ; † January 8, 1992 there ) was a German art historian and director of the Angermuseum .

Life

Magdalene Rudolph was already a member of the Association for Art and Applied Arts in Erfurt as a student . She studied archeology and art history in Jena , Leipzig and Munich . She received her doctorate in 1929 under Wilhelm Pinder in Munich with a dissertation entitled The Erfurt Stone Sculpture of the 15th Century .

From the end of 1929 to the beginning of 1934 she worked as a research assistant at the State Art Collections in Weimar in the castle museum with Wilhelm Koehler . In 1934 and 1935 Magdalene Rudolph worked as a full-time secretary for the Association for Art and Applied Arts in Erfurt. From 1935 to 1971 she worked as a research assistant at the Erfurt Municipal Museum .

On September 3, 1937, 765 works from the modern collection of the Municipal Museum were confiscated as part of the “ Degenerate Art ” campaign. The then museum director Herbert Kunze was relieved of his office. From 1938 to 1945 Magdalene Rudolph was provisional director of the Angermuseum without an official assignment and without a corresponding salary. She prevented Erich Heckel's mural stages of life from being destroyed by the National Socialists by closing the room with a temporary wall and placing a sculpture of the Archangel Gabriel in front of it. The wall paintings created by Heckel from 1922 to 1924 are today considered to be the most important preserved wall paintings of German Expressionism .

From 1939 to 1945 Magdalene Rudolph also headed the Erfurt Art Association . In 1942 Magdalene Rudolph and Herbert Kunze married. When the works of art had to be relocated during the air raids on Erfurt , Magdalene Rudolph was responsible for keeping the objects in safe places.

In 1945 Herbert Kunze was rehabilitated . He took over the directorate of the Angermuseum again. Magdalene Rudolph was a sympathizer of the artist and friend group “ Erfurter Ateliergemeinschaft ” (1963–1974) and an honorary member of the Erfurt Art Association, which was re-founded in 1990.

literature

  • Cornelia Nowak: Magdalene Rudolph (Kunze) . In: Ernst Herrbach (Ed.): Der Erfurter Kunstverein: between avant-garde and adaptation; a documentation from 1886 to 1945 . Angermuseum, Erfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-930013-14-2 , p. 224 .
  • Beate Klostermann: The special exhibitions of the Angermuseum from 1945 to 1962. An aesthetic reception analysis. Dissertation . University of Erfurt, 2007 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beate Klostermann: The special exhibitions of the Angermuseum from 1945 to 1962. An analysis of the aesthetic reception. Dissertation . University of Erfurt, 2007, p. 22 ( digitized version - the information varies in various sources from 591 to around 800 confiscated works).
personal data
SURNAME Rudolph, Magdalene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and director of the Angermuseum
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1992
Place of death Erfurt