Martin Sperlich
Martin Sperlich (born January 9, 1919 in Darkehmen , East Prussia ; † June 26, 2003 in Berlin ) was a German art historian and palace director.
Live and act
Martin Sperlich succeeded Margarete Kühn from 1969 to 1984 as director of the administration of the State Palaces and Gardens of Berlin . From 1973 he worked as a professor of garden history at the Free University of Berlin .
In coordination with Margarete Kühn, he realized a critical construction of the Charlottenburg Palace, which was destroyed in 1943–1945 . Total copies, such as the palace chapel or the Golden Gallery in the New Wing ("Knobelsdorff Wing") on the one hand, and partial copies and new creations, such as in the stairwell and White Hall of the New Wing and the Great Orangery on the other, were cleverly interwoven . Today again special paths relevant to monument preservation, such as the realization of baroque attic figures in modern paraphrase on the garden side of the palace based on designs never implemented in the Baroque era, illustrate Sperlich's willingness to find creative solutions in the reconstruction of the most important palace in West Berlin .
His lectures - later with Michael Seiler - in the chapel of Charlottenburg Palace were legendary . No less remarkable was his work for the Pückler Society and the exploration of historical gardens far beyond the borders of West Berlin. Sperlich, who as a soldier had experienced and suffered the Second World War and the imprisonment of war , had a very pragmatic relationship to death: he clearly recognized in a poem "... soon lime trickles / from the catafalque ..."
Martin Sperlich died in Berlin in 2003 at the age of 84. His tomb is located in the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf .
In 2010, Martin Sperlich's collection of poems, Im verse, the heaviness becomes easy , was published posthumously by Sperlich Verlag Berlin.
Works (selection)
- Poems. With posts and comments from the editor. Graphic design Senta Siller . Cover draft Hann Trier . Verlag Detlef Heikamp , Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-9800266-0-4 , 104 pages (published in 600 numbered copies).
- vademecum - vatetecum: authorized translation from Kakan. In: Vademecum - Vadetecum: or to what end (sic!) One studies art history. Detlef Heikamp Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-927463-16-7 , p. 29 ff. (Parody of a vademecum for art historians , Vienna 1906)
- In verse the heavy becomes light. Poems. Sperlich Verlag, Berlin 2010.
literature
- Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Martin Sperlich 1st chairman of the Pückler Society on his 75th birthday . Ed. Pückler-Gesellschaft eV Berlin, Red. Michael Seiler. Berlin 1993.
- Helmut Börsch-Supan : On the death of the Berlin preservationist Martin Sperlich. Fuel enthusiasm. In: Berliner Zeitung . June 27, 2003, accessed June 10, 2015 .
- Announcements of the Association for the History of Berlin , Issue 1, 115th year, January 2019. (Illustrated essays about Sperlich on the occasion of his 100th birthday of Helmut Börsch-Supan , Manfred Uhlitz, Michael Seiler , Heinz Schönemann and Marcus Köhler)
Web links
- Literature by and about Martin Sperlich in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Noble spirit: Schlösser director Martin Sperlich dead , obituary for Martin Sperlich in: Der Tagesspiegel from June 28, 2003
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 640.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sperlich, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian and palace director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darkehmen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 2003 |
| Place of death | Berlin |