Manfred Meinz

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Manfred Meinz (born March 16, 1931 in Magdeburg , † September 29, 2007 in Osnabrück ) was a German art historian and museum director in Osnabrück.

Life

He studied art history at the University of Hamburg and received his doctorate in 1967 on the topic of medieval sacred buildings in East Frisia . First he worked for eight years at the Altonaer Museum in Hamburg and then in 1970 he went to the Osnabrück Museum of Cultural History in Osnabrück . He lived with his second wife in Bad Iburg .

Manfred Meinz was the editor of Keramos for 30 years . Journal of the Society of Ceramic Friends .

Manfred Meinz and Jutta Schoeller-Meinz collected faience , especially valuable pieces from the faience and earthenware manufacturer Guischard, which was historically located in his native Magdeburg . The collection was transferred to the Dr. Manfred Meinz and Jutta Schoeller-Meinz Foundation brought in. The foundation, administered in trust by the city of Magdeburg, comprises 68 items, for which a value of € 360,000 was given in 2004. It is looked after and presented by the Magdeburg Cultural History Museum .

Director of the cultural history museum of the city of Osnabrück

Manfred Meinz was director of the cultural history museum of the city of Osnabrück from 1970 to 1991 (part of the Osnabrück Museum Quarter since 2017). Under his aegis, the cultural and historical collections were separated from the natural science collections. One museum became two organisationally independent museums. Meinz shaped the profile of the house as a museum of cultural history. He intensified the mediation offers in the house and the contacts with Osnabrück-based (family) companies and thereby won sponsors who supported him in expanding special collection areas. With the hiring of an folklorist in 1972 and an archaeologist in 1975, the care of the everyday culture and archeology departments was professionalized.

The Felix Nussbaum research is associated with his name. As the new director of the Museum of Cultural History, Manfred Meinz took over the works from the artist's estate in 1971. His predecessor Walter Borchers had the first discussions about the handle with Nussbaum's heirs. Meinz had the works restored and organized the first major retrospective. The exhibition, which was noticed nationwide, drew the Belgian art dealer Willy Billestraet's attention to Osnabrück, which ultimately led to the Nussbaum collection being supplemented with works that were created between 1942 and 1944 in exile in Belgium (or in hiding there) Works came to the Felix Nussbaum House .

Awards

On May 21, 2006 Manfred Meinz and his wife were allowed to register in the Golden Book of the City of Magdeburg in honor of their commitment to the foundation . Meinz was also a board member of the Osnabrück Friends' Association for the reconstruction of the Dresden Frauenkirche and was awarded a medal of honor in 2007 for his commitment.

Works

  • The church at Engerhafe , 1962.
  • The church at Petkum , 1964.
  • The medieval sacred building in East Frisia. Publishing house Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1966.
  • Diether Kressel - etchings and woodcuts . Catalog raisonné of graphics, 1972, together with Hans Theodor Flemming.
  • Diether Kressel - Etchings 1965–1976 . Catalog raisonné, 1976, together with Hans Theodor Flemming.
  • Nice silver. A handbook for collectors and enthusiasts , Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1977.
  • Osnabrück art treasures from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Exhibition by the city of Osnabrück and the district of Osnabrück, Rasch Verlag, Bramsche 1989.
  • Wilhelm Karmann Foundation. Acquisitions from 25 years. 100 selected objects , Rasch Verlag, Bramsche 1996.
  • The Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory , 2004, together with Beatrix Freifrau von Wolff Metternich.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wendelin Zimmer: On the death of Dr. Manfred Meinz. The Nussbaum research began with him. In: FN - News of the Felix Nussbaum Society . Volume 8, No. 14 , 2007, p. 13-14 .
  2. ↑ "Here a piece of historical Magdeburg returns to our city." OB Trümper accepted precious faiences on May 26, 2004 at www.presse-service.de
  3. ↑ Thorsten Heese: "... an own local for art and antiquity". The institutionalization of collecting using the example of Osnabrück museum history . In: Osnabrück cultural monuments . tape 12 . Rasch Verlag, Bramsche 2004, ISBN 3-89946-016-2 , p. 239-247 .
  4. ↑ Peter Junk, Wendelin Zimmer: Felix Nussbaum. Life and work. With the collaboration of Manfred Meinz . DuMont Buchverlag and Rasch Verlag, Cologne, Bramsche 1982, ISBN 3-7701-1453-1 , p. 10-12 .
personal data
SURNAME Meinz, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 2007
Place of death Osnabrück