Max Geisberg

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The grave of Max Geisberg and his wife Maria in the family grave at the central cemetery in Münster .

Max Heinrich Geisberg (born October 9, 1875 in Münster ; † June 5, 1943 ibid) was a German art historian and director of the State Museum of the Province of Westphalia in Münster. His most famous works include his publications on German graphics in the first half of the 16th century and the inventory of the art monuments of Westphalia .

Life

Max Geisberg, son of the city archivist Heinrich Geisberg (1817–1895), spent his childhood in Münster and went to school there. This was followed by studies, which he began at the University of Munich from 1896 to 1897 . In the second half of 1897 he switched to the Royal Theological and Philosophical Academy in Münster, which later became the university, for a winter semester . From the summer semester of 1898 he studied for two semesters at the University of Berlin , before moving to Münster again for the winter semesters of 1899/1900 and 1900/01. Geisberg, who as a student in Munich became an active member of the Catholic student association Saxonia in the cartel association of Catholic German student associations , also joined KV associations at other places of study. During his student days he took part in the excavations he initiated at the former Kreuzschanze in Münster, during which the portal figures of the Überwasserkirche buried there by the Anabaptists were discovered.

Since the summer semester of 1901 he studied at the University of Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate on February 14, 1902 under Henry Thode with a dissertation on the engraver Israhel van Meckenem . From 1905 he worked as a director's assistant at the Kupferstichkabinett in Dresden . On April 11, 1907, he married Maria Overhues. King Friedrich August III awarded him the title of professor . of Saxony on April 27, 1911.

In 1911 he was appointed director of the State Museum of the Province of Westphalia in Münster. Max Geisberg held this position until his early dismissal in 1934 because, as a friend of Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen, he was not trusted to lead the museum after the National Socialists came to power . From 1940 to 1942 he was reappointed director of the museum. His main activity at this time fell mainly on the outsourcing of art treasures to protect against Allied air raids.

Publications (selection)

  • Israhel van Meckenem . Heitz, Strasbourg 1902 (= dissertation)
  • The Master of the Berlin Passion and Israhel van Meckenem. Studies on the history of the Westphalian engravers in the fifteenth century . Heitz, Strasbourg 1903 ( digitized version ).
  • List of copperplate engravings by Israhels van Meckenem † 1503 . Heitz, Strasbourg 1905 ( digitized version ).
  • The German single-sheet woodcut in the first half of the XVI. Century . Schmidt, Munich 1929
    • The German Single-Leaf Woodcut 1500-1550 . Revised and edited by Walter L. Strauss . 4 volumes. Hacker, New York 1974
  • The German book illustration in the first half of the XVI. Century . Schmidt, Munich 1930–1932
  • Some of the oldest residential buildings in Westphalia . Münster 1930.
  • The architectural and art monuments of Westphalia . Vol. 41: The City of Münster Part 1–7. Aschendorff, Münster 1932–1962.
  • The courtyard at Engelenschanze . Munster 1940.
  • The broadcast from 1857 . Munster 1941.
  • Studies on the history of painters in Münster from 1530 to 1800 . Munster 1941.
  • Sources on the art history of the Lamberti Church in Münster . Aschendorff, Münster 1942.
  • My youth in the old cathedral . Aschendorff, Münster 1984, ISBN 3-402-05205-9 , unaltered reprint Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-402-05205-1 .

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SURNAME Geisberg, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geisberg, Max Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1943
Place of death Muenster