Oscar Gehrig

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Oscar Hermann Gehrig (born April 5, 1890 in Inzlingen , † December 18, 1948 in Karlsruhe ) was a German art historian .

Life

Oscar Gehrig passed the Abitur in Karlsruhe, participated in the First World War in the army intelligence service and then studied fine arts and art history in Karlsruhe (with Max Laeuger , Walter Georgi ), Freiburg / Br., Munich and at the University of Rostock , where he studied in 1921 received his doctorate from Albert Erich Brinckmann on the Renaissance artist Philipp Brandin . Gehrig traveled to America, England and the Middle East, but mainly dealt intensively with the art history of Mecklenburg . At the University of Rostock in 1921 he received an editing for drawing lessons. He also gave lectures in adult education centers on modern art . From 1926 he was a lecturer and from 1929 professor at the Rostock Pedagogical Institute for the training of elementary school teachers , which in 1935 became a college for teacher training . He also worked as an editor of regional history magazines ( Mecklenburgische Monatshefte ) and as an author of art guides. In Rostock he led the art association and made a significant contribution to many exhibitions. In 1940 Gehrig was drafted and promoted to major in World War II . Gehrig was a member of the conservative Kyffhäuserbund , the Nazi teachers 'association, and in November 1933 signed the professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges .

From February 1, 1947, he taught at the newly founded University of Education in Kiel . On June 1, 1947, he was initially appointed provisionally to Karlsruhe as the new head of the art academy , where he made numerous appointments.

Gehrig died in an accident in 1948.

Publications (selection)

  • Philipp Brandin - a biographical study of the main master of the Mecklenburg Renaissance who was active from 1563 to 1594 . Dissertation. Rostock 1921.
  • [with Karl Schmaltz :] The Güstrow Cathedral in history and art. Guestrow 1926.
  • Germany, eternal refuge of art. A walk through times and districts. Wehrmacht High Command's knapsack, only for use within the Wehrmacht. Bremen 1942

Individual evidence

  1. Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal

literature

  • Wolf Karge: Oscar Gehrig. In: Sabine Pettke (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon for Mecklenburg. Vol. 3. Rostock 2001, ISBN 3-7950-3713-1 , pp. 88-91.
  • Erika Rödiger-Diruf (Ed.): Painting is dead, long live painting: 150 years of the Karlsruhe Art Academy: the professors from 1947 to 1987 (=  Lindemann's library . Volume 7 ). Info-Verlag, Karlsruhe 2004, ISBN 3-88190-364-X , p. 28 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Grete Grewolls: Gehrig, Oscar. In: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons. Hinstorff, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01405-1 . Pp. 3166–3167 (with portrait)

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