Otto Krone (local researcher)

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Otto Krone (born October 15, 1874 in Braunschweig , † June 11, 1957 in Gifhorn ) was a German teacher, painter and local researcher .

Life

The son of the typesetter Wilhelm Krone was born in the Braunschweig Krahenfeld . He attended the Braunschweiger Kunstgewerbeschule under Hans Herse and then studied with a state scholarship at the Royal Art School in Berlin . There he passed the exam for drawing teachers in high schools in 1895. In addition, he trained as a gymnastics teacher in Berlin. Crown worked from 1898 until his retirement in 1944 as an art teacher and later teacher at the municipal secondary school in Braunschweig.

Museum curator and local researcher

At the suggestion of the Braunschweig museum director Franz Fuhse , Krone began collecting agricultural, folkloric and prehistoric antiquities from 1898 , which he brought together to create a small school museum. In 1915 he became honorary director of the prehistoric department of the Braunschweig Municipal Museum . From 1926, Krone worked as the state steward for prehistoric artefacts and from 1934 as curator of the prehistoric collections of the state of Braunschweig in the Villa Salve Hospes , where the municipal museum exhibited prehistoric collections between 1932 and 1940. The highlight of his conservation work is the amalgamation of the prehistoric collections. In 1937, Krone withdrew from voluntary museum work and devoted himself exclusively to landscape painting in his free time .

In Gifhorn, Krone and Willi Geffers laid the foundation stone for the archaeological collection in the district home museum. Krones' work Prehistory of the Braunschweiger Land from 1931 is still the only publication in the Gifhorn district today as a cross-sectional representation of the archeology for its region, i.e. the area south of the Aller .

Artistic creation

After his retirement and the war-related destruction of his Braunschweig apartment, he moved to Gifhorn in 1944, where he continued to paint into old age. His pictures, designed using the “old school” painting technique, were temporarily shown in the Braunschweig Municipal Museum. The two paintings Harvest Time and (1907) and Christmas Eve (1907) from the estate of the entrepreneur Max Jüdel came into the possession of the museum in 1936. As early as 1921, Krone had designed the motifs for the emergency money issued in Gifhorn . He died in Gifhorn in 1957.

Fonts (selection)

Krone wrote numerous local history publications on prehistory, prehistory and folklore. He published in particular in the Braunschweigische Heimat .

  • Prehistory of the Braunschweiger Land , Appelhans-Verlag, Braunschweig, 1931.
  • Old stone and road crosses . In: Braunschweigische Heimat. 25, 1934, pp. 23-24.
  • New excavations . In: Braunschweigische Heimat. 25, 1934, pp. 29-30.
  • A new grave find from Börnecke am Harz . In: Braunschweigische Heimat. 26, 1935, pp. 145-147.
  • An annual ring of happy children's games and festivals in the eighties of the last century in the city of Braunschweig . In: Braunschweigische Heimat. 27, 1936, pp. 42-47.
  • Franz Fuhse † . In: Braunschweiger Blätter 1937 Issue 5, pp. 3–5.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Krone on artnet
  2. ↑ Brunswick address book 1878, entry "Krone, Wilh., Typesetter, Salzdahlumerstr. 22 ".
  3. ^ Archeology Gifhorn
  4. ^ Liberal Jewish Community Wolfsburg - Region Braunschweig eV, Max Jüdel and his estate
  5. ^ Braunschweiger Zeitung: Notgeld from Gifhorn to be auctioned , November 10, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Krone, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, painter and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1957
Place of death Gifhorn