Richard Sedlmaier

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Richard Sedlmaier (born August 10, 1890 in Würzburg , † June 1, 1963 in Tegernsee ) was a German art historian .

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Richard Sedlmaier was the son of the businessman Adalbert Sedlmaier and his wife Auguste geb. Hagen. He grew up in Würzburg and graduated from high school there in 1909 . From 1909 to 1916 he studied art history, archeology and literary history at the universities of Munich , Vienna , Berlin and Würzburg . In 1916 he was awarded a doctorate in Würzburg for his work: Basics of Rococo Ornamentation in France. phil. PhD . From 1917 he was a curator at the Art History Museum of the University of Würzburg. In 1923 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the Würzburg Residence and became a private lecturer at the Art History Institute of the University of Würzburg.

In 1927 he was appointed professor with a chair at the University of Rostock , where he headed the Institute for Art History until 1939 and was dean in 1933/1934 . His research focus shifted to research into architecture and fine arts in northern Germany. Wolfgang J. Müller was one of his students.

In 1939 Richard Sedlmaier took over the chair for art history from Arthur Haseloff at the University of Kiel and became director of the Kunsthalle Kiel . His teaching activities focused on the art of international baroque and ornamentation as well as architecture, painting and sculpture from the German Middle Ages.

During the Second World War Richard Sedlmaier tried to keep teaching up. In 1942 he organized a study trip to Prague, Vienna, Salzburg, Munich and Augsburg on the subject of “The German Art of Baroque and Rococo”. As director of the Kunsthalle, he tried to avoid a confrontation with the Reich Chamber of Culture and to enable exhibitions through suitable themes, such as the exhibitions "Silesian Artists" (1940), "Guests from the Reich Capital" (1942) under the motto "On the Art of the German Tribes" ) and "Franconian Artists" (1944), which were funded by public funds. After the art gallery was destroyed by air raids , the exhibition had to be stopped in 1944.

After the Second World War, the Kunsthistorisches Institut was temporarily relocated to Schleswig in 1945 , where Richard Sedlmaier was represented by Lilli Martius in the summer semester . In the winter semester 1945/1946 the institute was relocated to Kiel. Richard Sedlmaier, Lilli Martius and Arthur Haseloff held lectures and Sedlmaier made special efforts to rebuild the art gallery and restore the collection. Works by Emil Nolde , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Ernst Barlach, among others, could be integrated into the collection. From 1948 Sedlmaier concentrated on the planning and implementation of the necessary construction work; from 1950 larger exhibitions could be shown again. In 1958 the art gallery was reopened with the expanded collection. In the same year he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit for his “services to art and art history” .

In teaching and research, Richard Sedlmaier was primarily concerned with questions of regional medieval art. Among his students were Wolfgang J. Müller , who came to Kiel from Rostock in 1946 and completed his habilitation at Sedlmaier in 1950, as well as Gerhard Wietek , Wolfgang Teuchert and Alfred Kamphausen . Richard Sedlmaier retired in 1958 .

Awards

Fonts

  • Basics of Rococo ornamentation in France. Dissertation. University of Würzburg 1917. Heitz & Mundel, Strasbourg 18917.
  • Schönherr and the Austrian folk piece. Würzburg publishing house, Würzburg 1920.
  • with Rudolf Pfister : The prince-bishop's residence in Würzburg. 2 volumes. Georg Müller, Munich 1928.
  • Rostock ( Deutsche Lande German Art series ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1931. 2nd edition 1943.
  • German painting of the 20th century. Kunsthalle, Kiel 1951.
  • Emil Nolde. Schleswig-Holstein Art Association, Kiel 1952.
  • Wolfgang von der Auveras Schönborn tombs in the Mainfränkisches Museum and the tomb art of the Schönborn bishops. With a foreword by Max Hermann von Freeden . Friends of Mainfränkischer Art and History, Würzburg 1955.
  • with Olaf Klose : Old Kiel and the Kiel landscape. Westholsteinische Verlags-Anstalt, Heide in Holstein 1956.

Richard Sedlmaier was editor of the magazines Kunst in Franken and Mecklenburgische Bilderhefte .

literature

  • Fritz Fuglsang (Ed.): Richard Sedlmaier as a festschrift dedicated to his 70th birthday on August 10, 1960 (= Nordelbingen . 28/29). Boyens, Heide in Holstein 1960, ISSN  0078-1037 .
  • Maren Hasenpath: Richard Sedlmaier (1890–1963). War years and reconstruction phase. In: Hans-Dieter Nägelke (ed.): Art history in Kiel. 100 years of the Art History Institute of Christian Albrechts University, 1893–1993. Art History Institute of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel 1994, ISBN 3-928794-11-6 , pp. 56–62.

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SURNAME Sedlmaier, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1963
Place of death Tegernsee