Margarete Riemschneider

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Margarete Carla Marie Riemschneider , b. Hoerner , also: Riemschneider-Hoerner (born August 17, 1899 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † February 1, 1985 in Munich ) was a German art historian and author.

Life

Margarete Riemschneider was a daughter of the judge and later Reich judge Hugo Hoerner and his wife Hersilie, geb. Schlieper. She studied art history and classical archeology . In 1922 she was at the University of Munich with one of Heinrich Wolfflin supervised dissertation on Italian genre painting of the Baroque and Rococo to Dr. phil. PhD.

In 1929 she married the doctor Georg Riemschneider in Jena . In the 1930s they moved to Schwerin . The couple had a son, Kaspar (1934–1976), who became an ancient orientalist . In 1939 she published a study on the change of gestures in art . At the same time she turned to mythological and archaeological topics.

In 1945 she joined the SPD and became a member of the SED as part of the compulsory merger of the SPD and KPD into the SED . In 1946, as the representative of Ehm Welk , she took over the management of the Schwerin Adult Education Center and shortly thereafter also became director of the State Museum .

In 1947 she was released from civil service. In 1954 she moved to Leipzig and, as a pensioner, to Munich in 1975, where her son had already moved in 1971.

Publications

  • The Italian genre image of the Baroque and Rococo. Dissertation Munich 1922
  • The change of gestures in art. 1939
  • Homer. Development and style. 1950
  • Questions about prehistoric religion. Koehler & Amelang Leipzig
    • Eye god and holy wedding. 1953
    • The weather god. 1956
  • The world of the Hittites. 1954
Translations into French, Dutch and Romanian
  • From Olympia to Nineveh in the age of Homer. 1963
  • The empire on Mount Ararat. 1965
  • The oath of Espaini. 1966
  • The miracle of Jerusalem. 1967
  • No city is safe from the robbers. With an afterword by Rigobert Günther . Prisma Verlag Leipzig 1968
  • La religione dei Celti. 1979

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 8179 .
  • Old Prussian biography. Volume 5/2, Marburg: Elwert 2007 ISBN 9783770813018 , p. 1918

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personal data
SURNAME Riemschneider, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riemschneider, Margaret Carla Marie (full name); Hoerner, Margarete (maiden name); Riemschneider-Hoerner, Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1985
Place of death Munich