Michael Petzet

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Michael Alfred Petzet (born April 12, 1933 in Munich - † May 29, 2019 ) was a German art historian and monument conservator .

Life

Petzet moved to Krailling with his parents when he was five years old and went to school in Planegg . From 1952 to 1958 he studied art history in Munich and Paris .

From 1958 to 1965 he worked for the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation and compiled inventories of art monuments in the administrative district of Swabia . In 1961 he was with his thesis on the abbey church Sainte-Geneviève - the present Parisian Pantheon - built by Jacques-Germain Soufflot , PhD . From 1966 he worked as a consultant for the Bavarian Administration of State Palaces, Gardens and Lakes . In 1970 he was the second director of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich for two years . In 1972 he became director of the Lenbachhaus .

In 1974, Minister of Culture Hans Maier proposed him to the cabinet as general curator for the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. The cabinet accepted the proposal. But the then CSU chairman Franz Josef Strauss then rejected him, which sparked a heated debate about the situation in the Bavarian state parliament. Opinions were made by the Minister of Education and the Prime Minister. The plenary talked about whether there was an imperative mandate . Petzet headed the office until 1999.

In 1988 Petzet became President of the German National Committee of the International Council for the Preservation of Monuments (ICOMOS). He was elected President of the ICOMOS International Committee in 1999. In 2008 he resigned the office of international president and in 2012 that of national president. Since 2008 he has been honorary president of the international ICOMOS, since 2012 honorary president of the national ICOMOS.

Petzet was honorary professor at the University of Bamberg and taught at the Academy of Fine Arts and the Technical University in Munich.

Michael Petzet was the author of numerous books and publications on French architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries, on art and art monuments in Bavaria (in particular on the castles of King Ludwig II and the architecture of historicism ), as well as on general questions of monument protection and Monument preservation. As early as 1968 he brought about a rehabilitation of the long unrecognized creations of the king as the climax of an international historicism with the Munich exhibition King Ludwig II. And Art, which received worldwide attention . He was also the editor of several periodicals on monument preservation.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Soufflots Sainte-Geneviève and the French church building of the 18th century . In: University of Munich. Art History Seminar (Ed.): New Munich Contributions to Art History . tape 2 . de Gruyter, Berlin 1961, DNB  453751660 (dissertation University of Munich 1961).
  • Preservation of monuments today . Twenty lectures on fundamental questions of monument preservation; 1974-1992. In Bavaria. State Office for Monument Preservation (Ed.): Workbooks of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . Lipp, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-87490-557-8 .
  • Peasant churches . The most beautiful village churches and chapels between the Danube and the Alps. Buchner, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7658-1299-4 (photographs by Hans Joachim Budeit. With texts by Michael Petzet and Burkhard Körner).
  • Michael Petzet, Gert Mader : Practical monument preservation . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne 1993 (standard work on monument preservation).

literature

  • Bernhard Bach and others: Monumental . Festschrift for Michael Petzet for his 65th birthday on April 12, 1998. In: Susanne Böning-Weis (Hrsg.): Workbooks of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . tape 100 . Lipp, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-654-X ( table of contents [accessed on August 24, 2014]).
  • Bernd Vollmar : Substance, what is it? Michael Petzet on his 85th birthday. In: Die Denkmalpflege , Issue 1, 2018, pp. 105–108.
  • York Langenstein: "My dream job is general curator ...". Memories of Michael Petzet (April 12, 1933 † May 29, 2019) . In: Monument Preservation Information 171, 2019, pp. 6–9. (with photo)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk dated May 31, 2019 , accessed on May 31, 2019
  2. ↑ Christiane Bracht: Seniors tell. Krailling back then. In: Süddeutsche.de. June 17, 2013, accessed August 24, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b c d CV Petzet. (PDF) ICOMOS, archived from the original on August 26, 2014 ; accessed on August 24, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Minutes of the plenary. (PDF) In: Plenary Protocol No. 7/85 of March 26, 1974. Bavarian State Parliament, pp. 4481 ff , accessed on August 25, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Michael Petzet turns 80. ICOMOS, archived from the original on August 26, 2014 ; accessed on August 24, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Schinkel-Ring for monument protector Petzet ( Memento from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Petzet, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petzet, Michael Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 29 May 2019