Peter Halm (art historian)

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Peter Halm (born November 17, 1900 in Munich ; † April 26, 1966 there ) was a German art historian and director of the State Collection of Graphics in Munich .

Life

Peter Halm comes from a family of scholars and artists. His father, Philipp Maria Halm , was director of the Bavarian National Museum and the etcher Peter Halm was his uncle.

In 1920 he graduated from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich .

He received his doctorate in 1927 at the University of Munich under Heinrich Wölfflin with a thesis on the landscape drawings by Wolf Huber . He then worked from 1927 to 1935 as a research assistant at the Dresden Kupferstichkabinett at Max Lehrs . From 1935 to 1938 Halm worked at the Badische Kunsthalle Karlsruhe before he switched to the Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich as a curator in 1938 . On May 1, 1948, he was appointed director of the State Graphic Collection, which he headed until his retirement on November 30, 1965.

“From the beginning he tried to reorganize the collection, which had been exceptionally hard hit by war casualties. The brilliant touring exhibition German Drawings 1400–1900 , conceived by Halm and shown in 1955/56 in Munich, Berlin and Hamburg as well as in five cities in the USA, was a highlight . In addition to his work on old German graphics, Halm devoted himself to the art of the 19th and 20th centuries with the same intensity, which is not only proven by the capital acquisitions in this area, but also by exhibitions on Käthe Kollwitz , Pablo Picasso , Max Beckmann and Lovis Corinth . In addition, the co-editor of various specialist journals such as the Pantheon , the Munich Yearbook of Fine Arts or the Art Chronicle worked on the history and development of the various graphic techniques. "

Halm also intensively collected prints for the museum and campaigned for research into the history of printmaking. In 1957, for example, he showed the epoch-making exhibition Incunabula . The first century of German letterpress and picture printing , followed by Bild vom Stein in 1962 . The development of lithography from Senefelder to the present day . During his tenure, two important foundations with prints came to the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, that of Max Kade and that of Ludwig Gutbier .

Fonts (selection)

  • The landscape drawings by Wolfgang Huber. Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1930 (dissertation).
  • Old German copper engravings. Holbein, Basel 1946.
  • with Bernhard Degenhart , Wolfgang Wegner : Hundred master drawings from the State Graphic Collection in Munich. Prestel, Munich 1958.

literature

  • Sabine Wölfel: Biographies . In: Michael Semff , Kurt Zeitler (Hrsg.): Artists draw - collectors donate. 250 years of the State Graphic Collection in Munich . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2179-0 , Vol. 3, pp. 144-145.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich 1919/20.
  2. ^ Sabine Wölfel: Biographies . In: Michael Semff, Kurt Zeitler (Ed.): Artists drawing - collectors donate. 250 years of the State Graphic Collection in Munich . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008, vol. 3, p. 145.
personal data
SURNAME Halm, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1966
Place of death Munich