Oskar Beyer (writer)

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Oskar Beyer (born June 26, 1890 in Dresden; † July 1, 1964 in Darmstadt) was a German art writer and worked in the field of "Christian archeology, art of general religious history".

Career

Born in Dresden , Beyer lived in Berlin from 1919 after his military service and imprisonment in World War I , where he married Margarete Löwenfeld (1893–1945), who was killed in the Auschwitz -Birkenau concentration camp “as a Protestant 'full Jew'”. With their three children Ralph Alexander (1921–2008), Frank-Michael (1928–2008) and Renate-Anita (married Henry) they lived in Dresden from 1927 to 1931, where Beyer u. a. was a founding member and managing director of Kunst-Dienst eV . However, he resigned due to personal-content and political tensions to go to the Darß u. a. to work with the painter Bernhard Hopp and his family in a life and work community. The family emigrated to Crete on July 1, 1933 , but returned to Germany via Switzerland and Liechtenstein with their two younger children between 1935 and Easter 1937 . There the family lived in a "privileged marriage" so called according to the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 in Berlin-Spandau , Potsdam-Babelsberg and Rehbrücke . Failure to use the prescribed first name “Sahra” led to Margarete's imprisonment in 1944 and finally to the concentration camp . After the war , Oskar Beyer made a certain fresh start - probably with the help of Gotthold Schneider from the former art service and Otto Bartning , the church architect.

Beyer entered into a second marriage with Annemarie Grunwald from 1949. Numerous new publications followed on from his earlier subjects, mainly of art with a religious theme. Regular correspondence and occasional visits were also established with his friend, the painter and church builder Bernhard Hopp.

literature

  • Uwe Gleßmer, Emmerich Jäger, Manuel Hopp: On the biography of the church builder Bernhard Hopp (1893-1962): A life as a Hamburg artist and architect Part 1: The time up to the Second World War . (= Contribution to the Hopp-und-Jäger project No. 5). Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2016, ISBN 978-3-7386-1201-1 .
  • Uwe Gleßmer: The estate of the art historian Dr. Gisela Hopp and the picture 'Mühlenbarbeck' by Heinrich Stegemann: the birthplace of JH Fehrs and the 'early Fehrs propaganda' . (= Contribution to the Hopp-und-Jäger project No. 7). Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2017, ISBN 978-3-7431-0425-9 .
  • Dieter Kusske: Between art, cult and collaboration. The German church-related “Art Service” 1928 to 1945 in context . Diss. Phil. University of Bremen, Bremen 2013, p. 344 ff, online .
  • Hans Prolingheuer: Hitler's pious iconoclast. Church and art under the swastika . Dittrich Verlag, Cologne 2001.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A detailed biographical description of Beyer is part of the appendix from Kusske (2013) eDiss p. 344ff.
  2. ↑ Prolingheuer (2001) p. 109 and on the date of death officially set to April 12, 1945 see p. 244 with note 298 (p. 344).
  3. ↑ Kusske (2013) Diss. P. 209 on the “religious problem of art”, and Gleßmer / Jäger / Hopp (2016) p. 79ff.
  4. ↑ See also the draft version made available by Ralf Beyer after the death of his father in 1964 for a publication "Bernhard Hopp (1893-1962)" (no year 1962?) U. a. in the StAHH. In it u. a. Excerpts from letters from Hopp to Beyer; conversely, letters from Beyer to Hopp can be found in his correspondence estate, which is in the Hamburg Architecture Archive (see Gleßmer (2017) p. 184).
personal data
SURNAME Beyer, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1964
Place of death Darmstadt