Martin Urban (art historian)
Martin Urban (* 1913 ; † 2002 ) was a German art historian and long-time director of the Nolde Foundation Seebüll .
Life
Martin Urban was in 1950 at the University of Kiel with the dissertation The medieval choir stalls in the monastery church of Preetz and the Lübeck stalls of the early 14th century doctorate . From 1963 to 1992 he was director of the Nolde Foundation Seebüll .
In 1988, Urban came under fire from a report on the ARD broadcast titel, thesen, temperamente . In it, the journalist Tilman Jens reported that Urban had had a barn on the island of Föhr that had been converted into a residential building in the 1970s and that it was in an area where residential development was not permitted. Urban would have received a special permit on the condition that exhibitions would be shown in the house , but would not have complied. As a result, Jens' father, the literary historian Walter Jens , resigned from the Board of Trustees of the Nolde Foundation Seebüll after twenty years of membership .
Honors
In 1980 Martin Urban was given the honorary professorship of the State of Schleswig-Holstein "in recognition and in appreciation of his great services to the research and preservation of the art of German Expressionism and, in particular, his successful endeavors to develop Emil Nolde's work and to bring it to the fore all over the world" Holstein awarded.
Publications (selection)
- Wenzel Hablik : 1881-1934. Schleswig-Holstein State Museum , Schleswig 1960.
- Ernst Günter Hansing . Municipal Museum, Flensburg 1961.
- The painters of the " Brücke " in Schleswig-Holstein: Erich Heckel , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Otto Mueller . Overbeck Society , Lübeck 1962.
- Emil Nolde - Flowers and Animals: Watercolors and Drawings. Dumont, Cologne 1965 (2nd edition 2002, ISBN 3-8321-0685-5 ).
- Emil Nolde: Landscapes. Watercolors and drawings. Dumont, Cologne 1969 (3rd edition 2005, ISBN 3-8321-3298-8 ).
- Emil Nolde: Catalog raisonné of the paintings. 2 volumes. Beck, Munich, 1987 and 1990, ISBN 3-406-32538-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Anna Brenken : Flat land with holy things . In: The time . April 29, 1988. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
- ↑ Michael Stitz: A life for Nolde . Schleswig-Holstein newspaper publisher . July 28, 2012. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
- ↑ Honorary professors on the website of the State of Schleswig-Holstein ( Memento from March 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Urban, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1913 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2002 |