Oskar Karpa

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Oskar Karpa (born January 24, 1899 in Berlin , † November 2, 1963 in Hanover ) was a German art historian and monument conservator .

Life

Oskar Karpa attended high school in Berlin. After participating in World War I , he had passed the first and second teacher exams and initially worked as a primary school teacher. He studied art history, classical archeology and philosophy in Berlin and from 1928 in Bonn. In 1929 he received his doctorate from Paul Clemen with a dissertation on the Cologne wood-carved reliquary busts of the High and Late Gothic. From 1929 to 1935 he was museum curator in the Rhine Province and from 1936 to 1945 head of the Brandenburg cultural department. Since 1952 he was the Lower Saxony state curator .

In February 1935 he married Ingeborg von Trotha in Blankenburg (born January 14, 1909 in Otjikondo ; † December 25, 1986 in Eschwege), the daughter of the businessman Gebhard von Trotha, with whom he had three children.

Publications (selection)

  • Wolfenbüttel ( German Land - German Art ). Munich / Berlin 1951, 2nd edition 1965
  • Celle and Wienhausen (German Lands - German Art). Munich / Berlin 1953
  • (Ed.): Book series Die Kunstdenkmale des Landes Niedersachsen

literature

  • Who is who? Volume 14, part 1, Schmidt-Römhild, 1962, p. 712.
  • Urs Boeck: Oskar Karpa: the scientific side of monument preservation. In: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony 33, 2013, No. 1, pp. 30–31.

Remarks

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volume 99, p. 277; Otjikondo in colonial times .
personal data
SURNAME Karpa, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 2nd, 1963
Place of death Hanover