Paul Seidel (art historian)

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Paul Seidel (born April 14, 1858 in Schwerin , † December 5, 1929 in Berlin ) was a German art historian and museum director.

Life

Paul Seidel was born in 1858 as the sixth child of the Schwerin pastor and writer Heinrich Alexander Seidel and his wife Johanne Auguste, geb. Romans (1823-1896). Well-known siblings of Paul Seidel were the engineer and writer Heinrich Seidel (1842–1906) and the physician Hermann Seidel (1855–1895).

He attended the Gymnasium Fridericianum in Schwerin. After studying law at the universities in Strasbourg, Leipzig and Berlin, he received his doctorate in law. jur. and initially worked at the Berlin Supreme Court. He studied art history in Leipzig, supplemented by study trips to other European countries.

His further professional activity began in 1885 with a traineeship at the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin. In 1888 he became assistant director and in 1894 he was appointed director of the art collections of the royal palaces, in addition to which he was appointed to the secret government council. From 1896 to 1923, he succeeded Robert Dohme as director of the Hohenzollern Museum in Monbijou Castle. He was a member of the Senate of the Prussian Academy of the Arts . From 1885 he was a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology . From 1897 to 1916 he was editor of the Hohenzollern yearbook .

Paul Seidel was married to Elisabeth Pfaff (1869–1945) from Wolfenbüttel. The couple had a son and three daughters. The daughter Margarete Seidel (1892–1972) married the chemist and businessman Kurt Oppenheim (1886–1947) in 1914 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Contributions to the life story of Jean Baptiste Oudry with special consideration of his paintings in Schwerin and his connection to the Mecklenburg court. In: Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaften 13,1890, pp. 80–110.
  • Frederick the Great and the French Painting of his Time , 1892.
  • The silver and gold treasure of the Hohenzollern in Berlin Palace , 1896.
  • French works of art of the XVIII. Century in the possession of His Majesty the German Emperor and King of Prussia. History of acquisitions and directory. Berlin / Leipzig 1900.
  • The art collection of Frederick the Great at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900. Descriptive directory ; with 45 illustrations after drawings and etchings by Peter Halm, Giesecke & Devrient, Berlin 1900.
  • Directory of the painting collection. Schack-Galerie in Munich owned by His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia . 5th edition. Hirth, Munich 1901.
  • (Ed.): Hohenzollern yearbook. Research and illustrations on the history of the Hohenzollern in Brandenburg-Prussia Volume 1, 1897-20, 1916 ( digitized version ).
  • Relationship of Frederick the Great to the fine arts : Kgl. Akad. D. Arts in Berlin; Speech given at the Celebration of All things. Birthday SM of the emperor and king. Berlin 1912 ( digitized version ).
  • The City Palace in Potsdam. A leader . German art publisher, Berlin 1922.

literature

  • Arnold Hildebrand: Paul Seidel . In: Deutsches biographisches Jahrbuch Vol. 11, 1929/32, pp. 286–288.
  • Wieland Giebel: The French in Berlin 1806-1808 . 2006, pp. 258-259 (with picture).
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 9356 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Wöbke:  Oppenheim, Kurt. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 564 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Seidel, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1929
Place of death Berlin