Oswald Adolf Erich

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Oswald Adolf Erich (born July 27, 1883 in Berlin , † April 25, 1946 in Potsdam ) was a German painter and folklorist . From 1943 to 1945 he was acting director of the State Museum for German Folklore in Berlin.

Life

Oswald Adolf Erich was born on July 27, 1883 in Berlin. In 1905 and 1906 he studied philosophy and art history in Munich and Berlin. This was followed by studying painting and graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , the State University of Fine Arts in Berlin and from around 1906 in Paris. Until 1915 Erich worked as a painter and art collector in Berlin and Potsdam. Between 1915 and 1917 he did military service in the First World War . He then worked as an artist in Switzerland until 1919. Erich then returned to his homeland: from 1920 to 1925 he worked for the Disconto Society in Potsdam and continued to work as a painter. Erich studied art history, archeology and German studies at Berlin University from 1926 to 1929 before he received his doctorate there in 1929.

Around 1932 Erich became a voluntary research assistant for the collection for German folklore in Berlin; In 1934 he was a research assistant. As a result, he was employed at the State Museum for German Folklore: until 1937 as a scientific unskilled worker, from 1937 to 1943 as a scientific employee. In 1942 Erich took part in the excavation at Lebus Castle . After Konrad Hahm's death , Erich was acting director of the museum until the end of the Second World War . Under his direction, the relocation of the collections was the focus of the museum's activities. In addition, Erich also made purchases, which, however, together with the holdings that remained in the store, largely resulted in losses due to the air raids on Berlin. Until his death on April 25, 1946, Erich worked as a freelance artist and scientist in Potsdam.

Publications

  • The depiction of the devil in Christian art , Berlin 1931.
  • Dictionary of German Folklore. Co-editor, from 1936.
  • Minerva handbooks “Die Deutsche Museen” , editor, 1939–1942.

literature

  • Horst Junker, Horst Wieder: On the staffing of the Museum for Pre- and Early History since 1829. Personnel directory - short biographies - job overview , in: Wilfried Menghin (ed.), The Berlin Museum for Pre- and Early History. Festschrift for the 175th anniversary (Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica 36/37 (2004/2005)) , Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-88609-907-X , pp. 513-591.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Horst Junker, Horst Wieder, on the staffing of the Museum for Pre- and Early History since 1829. Personnel directory - short biographies - job overview , in: Wilfried Menghin (ed.), The Berlin Museum for Pre- and Early History. Festschrift for the 175th anniversary (Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica 36/37 (2004/2005)) , Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-88609-907-X , pp. 513-591, here: p 554.
  2. ↑ Erika Karasek , A Century of Commitment to Folklore 1889–1989 , in: Museum für Volkskunde (Ed.), Clothing Between Tracht and Mode. From the history of the museum 1889–1989 , Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin 1989, pp. 5–48, here: pp. 11–12.
personal data
SURNAME Erich, Oswald Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and folklorist, acting director of the State Museum for German Folklore
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1946
Place of death Potsdam