Richard Hamann-Mac Lean

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Richard Hamann-Mac Lean (born April 19, 1908 in Charlottenburg , † January 19, 2000 in Mainz ) was a German art historian .

Life

Hamann-Mac Lean, son of the art historian and university professor Richard Hamann , took part in his father's art history photo excursions while he was still at school at the Philippinum Marburg high school . Here he also passed his Abitur in 1926. From 1927 to 1934 he studied art history , archeology , philosophy and Romance studies in Marburg, Munich, Berlin, Paris and Frankfurt am Main. In 1934 he was at the University of Frankfurt with his dissertation on the Lazarus grave in Autun Dr. phil. PhD. In the same year he became a teacher of modern art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and a member of the SA . As a photographer he worked a. a. with the inventory of the art monuments in Hohenzollern and handed over about 15,000 photos to the photo archive Foto Marburg , which his father managed. In addition, he gave lectures at adult education centers and led excursions at the Nazi leisure center Kraft durch Freude . In 1939 he renamed himself Hamann-Mac Lean after his mother's maiden name to differentiate himself from his father of the same name. In the same year he completed his habilitation at the University of Halle under Wilhelm Waetzoldt and joined the NS motor corps and the NSV .

During the Second World War he became a lecturer in Halle in 1940, but shortly afterwards he was on leave to work as a photographer in the Ahnenerbe . Together with the Baltic German art historian Nils von Holst , head of the Foreign Office of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , MacLean organized a photo campaign in the USSR between March and November 1940 to document the permanent German cultural assets in the Baltic States. The photos were intended for the Prussian Research Institute for Art History at the University of Marburg . From the end of 1940, the convinced pacifist served in a leading position, but deliberately only as a simple soldier, in the "Art Protection" department within the military administration in France. Dismissed there at the end of 1941, he served in the flak from 1942 .

After a short imprisonment of war, he became a private lecturer at the University of Marburg, where he was involved in restoring the art history seminar and the museum. He also wrote for the Neue Zeitung and was director of the Marburg Adult Education Center from 1946 to 1950. In 1949 Hamann-Mac Lean was appointed associate professor and scientific advisor in Marburg. In the 1950s, Hamann-Mac Lean campaigned against the binding of the Federal Republic to the West and the stationing of nuclear weapons in Germany and corresponded with Kurt Hiller , among others , and later campaigned against the emergency laws . In 1967 he became a full professor at the University of Mainz , where he retired in 1973.

Hamann-Mac Lean was one of “the outstanding scholars of art-historical medieval studies .” His research focuses on the architecture and sculpture of the French and German early and high Middle Ages as well as Byzantine painting. His main research results include the stylistic evidence that the early Gothic Naumburg master was also active in northern France as a sculptor for a lintel console in the cathedral of Noyon and that Nikolaus von Verdun is not just an individual, but a workshop with at least 5 different ones Traded artisans. He was considered the best connoisseur of Reims Cathedral, whose building history was decisively rewritten by him. The last volume of the Reims publication, however, was not published until after his death, based on materials in his estate.

Grave of Richard Hamann-Mac Lean in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Richard Hamann-Mac Lean died in Mainz in January 2000 at the age of 91. His grave is in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend . He rests there by the side of his wife Hedwig nee. Fuhrmann (1909–2009), with whom he had been married since 1934.

The photo collection from the Hamann-Mac Lean estate is at the University of Trier . The Bildarchiv Foto Marburg has two drawings by Alf Bayrle from the Hamann-Mac Lean collection.

Publications (selection)

  • The Lazarus tomb in Autun . Dissertation, publisher of the art history seminar of the University of Marburg 1935
  • with Richard Hamann: Olympic Art . Extended new edition, Hopfner, Burg bei Magdeburg 1936
  • with Jean Verrier: Early Art in the West Franconian Empire . Pantheon Verlag Leipzig 1939
  • The iconographic problem of the "Friedberger Jungfrau" . Habilitation thesis, Hopfner, Burg bei Magdeburg 1939
  • Foundation for a history of medieval monumental painting in Serbia and Macedonia , Schmitz, Gießen 1976
  • with George Galavaris: bread stamp from the Prinz-Johann-Georg-Collection in Mainz , Kunstgeschichtliches Institut Mainz 1979
  • Change of style and personality. Collected essays 1935–1982 . Steiner-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1988
  • with Ise Schüßler: The Cathedral of Reims . 8 volumes. Steiner, Stuttgart 1993-2008

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data based on Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 213 and corpus professorum halensis , different dates in the obituary in: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 63, 2000, p. 443 , then doctorate in 1931, Städelschule from 1933.
  2. ↑ a b c Obituary in: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 63, 2000, p. 443 .
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 213, and catalogus professorum halensis .
  4. ^ Corinna Kuhr-Korolev (among others), Robbery and Rescue. Russian museums in World War II. Cologne 2019, p. 69.
  5. ↑ catalogus professorum halensis
  6. ↑ Pegasus, 2001, p. 170
  7. ↑ Marburg University Library, Hamann-Mac Lean estate, box 11.
  8. ↑ Quote from the obituary in: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 63, 2000, p. 443 .
  9. ^ Richard Hamann-Mac Lean . In: Directory of professors at the University of Mainz . On: http://gutenberg-biographics.ub.uni-mainz.de . Retrieved December 11, 2019.
  10. ^ Richard Hamann MacLean estate ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ http://www.bildindex.de .
personal data
SURNAME Hamann-Mac Lean, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hamann, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 2000
Place of death Mainz