Paul Schumann

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Paul Schumann (born August 12, 1855 in Großenhain , † September 24, 1927 in Dresden ) was a cultural reformer, a key contributor to the magazine Der Kunstwart and co-founder of the Dürerbund .

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Paul Schumann had attended the Dreikönigschule in Dresden and the Fürstenschule Grimma and studied architecture , classical philology and art history in Leipzig , Tübingen and Dresden . He passed state exams in classical and modern philology . In 1884 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the Baroque and Rococo . Schumann went on extensive educational trips to Italy , France , Holland and Belgium and was later appointed professor. His first marriage was to Elsbeth Doehn, daughter of the German-American writer Rudolf Doehn . Their son, Wolfgang Schumann , grew up after the divorce in the house of his stepfather Ferdinand Avenarius .

In 1888, Schumann gave up his work as a teacher and co-director at the Müller-Gelinek Realschule in favor of editorial responsibility at Dresdner Anzeiger , where he made a name for himself as a controversial art critic as the head of the feuilleton and editor-in-chief for art and science . He came out vehemently against the writer Karl May , whose works he counted as trash and dirty literature. In contrast, the painters Arnold Böcklin , Max Klinger and Auguste Rodin were among those artists for whom Schumann was particularly committed. Along with Avenarius and Cornelius Gurlitt, he was one of the supporters of the art education movement , which campaigned for the preservation of art in schools, universities and museums. In the Sunday supplement of the Dresdner Anzeiger , which appeared from 1901 to 1917 , Schumann gave young professors from the TH Dresden a chance to speak. From the proceeds of this newspaper which was foundation of the Justus Friedrich Güntz financed.

Blasewitz : The Dürerbandhaus in which Schumann lived for years.

Schumann worked closely with Avenarius from 1887 on in the editorial office of the Kunstwart . In 1902 they founded the Dürerbund together . Paul Schumann was initially the first secretary and after Avenarius' death in 1923 nominally took over the chairmanship, with his son Wolfgang holding the intellectual leadership. He also worked in the Goethe Bund and the Heimatschutz Federation and he was committed to Saxon folk art , nature conservation and the maintenance of the German language . As a member of the Deutscher Werkbund , he propagated objectivity in architecture and the arts and crafts .

In 1919 he was one of the founders of the Dresden Adult Education Center . Overall, Schumann was a member of over 50 clubs. In Dresden he worked temporarily in municipal bodies, in the art committee and in the committee for the promotion of the Dresden university system. A bronze bust was by Dresdner sculptor and graphic artist Etha Richter created

Fonts

  • Baroque and Rococo: Studies on the building history of the 18th century with special reference to Dresden, contributions to art history. Seemann, Leipzig 1885.
  • A hundred masters of the present. 20 art folders. With texts by Paul Schumann et al. Seemann, Leipzig 1902–1904.
  • Landkirchen: Designed and executed by the architects Schilling & Graebner. With a foreword by Paul Schumann. Gilber, Leipzig 1903.
  • Dresden. Famous art places. Issue 46.Seemann, Leipzig 1909 ( digitized in the Internet Archive ).
  • Max Klinger's mural for the auditorium of the University of Leipzig. Seemann, Leipzig 1909.
  • Dresden arts and crafts. Heinrich, Dresden 1911.
  • The Kingdom of Saxony in color photography. Collaborators: Paul Benndorf, Georg Beutel et al. Berlin 1916.
  • Germanness and higher schools. Appendix: Sense and nonsense in grammatical lessons. Koch, Dresden 1917.
  • Aunt Quantilla, or the five senses in grammar lessons. Conversations about sentence structure and other grammatical issues between me and my boy. Appendix: The heresy of the Hiotus in German. Self-published, Dresden-Blasewitz; Koch, Dresden 1924.

literature

  • Gerhard Kratzsch: Kunstwart and Dürerbund. A contribution to the history of the educated in the age of imperialism. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1969, ISBN 3-525-36125-4 .
  • Herbert Zeißig: A German newspaper. 200 years of Dresdner Anzeiger. A newspaper and cultural history commemorative publication . Güntzschen Foundation publishing house, Dresden 1930.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Fiedler : childhood memories of his father and the "Dürerbundhaus" Dresden (PDF file; 439 kB. The father was Kurt Fiedler , 1894–1950.)
  2. ^ Wiltrud Gieseke , Karin Opelt: Adult education in political upheavals: Program research Volkshochschule Dresden 1945–1997. VS, 2003
  3. ^ Statistical Office of the City of Dresden: The Administration of the City of Dresden 1927 . Dresden 1929, p. 6
  4. Portrait at the Deutsche Fotothek