Robert Knorr

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Robert Knorr (born May 12, 1865 in Ulm , † July 21, 1957 in Wattenweiler , Weissach in the valley near Backnang ) was a German sculptor and Roman provincial archaeologist .

Life

From 1874 to 1879 Knorr learned from the painter Mathilde Sprandel and from 1879 to 1884 from the sculptor Gregor Heyberger in Ulm. From 1883 to 1885 he attended the art school in Stuttgart and then the Munich Academy until 1887 , where his teacher was Syrius Eberle . From 1887 to 1890 he worked in the Stotz iron foundry in Stuttgart. In 1893 Knorr became an assistant at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts . From 1900 to 1923 he headed the sculpture class for figurative sculpture with the title Professor.

On his 90th birthday in 1955, he received the congratulations of the state government from Helmut Dölker, the director of the State Monument Preservation in Stuttgart, as well as for the State University of Tübingen by Wolfgang Kimmig and for the State Museum Württemberg by the conservator Siegfried Junghans .

Robert Knorr as a Terra Sigillata researcher

His passion was researching the Roman tableware , the terra sigillata . Together with Hans Dragendorff and August Oxé, he is one of the pioneers in research into terra sigillata. At the beginning of the 20th century, Knorr began to chronologically classify this ceramic shape according to edge shapes and types of decoration, he assigned certain types to certain potters or factories. He examined the terra sigillata from numerous Roman sites in Württemberg , such as Cannstatt , Köngen-Grinario , Rottenburg- Sumelocenna , Rottweil- Arae Flaviae , but also from the potters at Blickweiler and Eschweiler Hof and Pompeji .

His publications with detailed images still serve as reference works for the identification and publication of Terra Sigillata at other sites.

Because of his services to ceramic research, he became a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute in 1913 , and the University of Tübingen awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1927 .

Publications (selection)

  • The ornate Terra Sigillata vessels from Cannstatt and Köngen-Grinario. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1905 ( archive.org ).
  • The decorated Terra Sigillata vessels from Rottweil. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1907.
  • The ornate Terra Sigillata vessels from Rottenburg-Sumelocenna. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1910 ( archive.org ).
  • South Gallic Terra Sigillata Vessels from Rottweil. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1912.
  • First century potters and factories of ornate terra sigillata. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1919 ( archive.org ).
  • Cannstatt Castle. Newly found Terra Sigillata vessels. Schweizerbarth, Stuttgart 1921.
  • with Friedrich Sprater : The Sigillata pottery in Blickweiler and Eschweiler Hof in West Palatinate. Historical Museum of the Palatinate, Speyer 1927.
  • Ornate 1st century sigillata with pottery names. In: Schumacher Festschrift. On the 70th birthday of Karl Schumacher, October 14, 1930. Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz 1930, p. 309 ff. ( Digital.slub-dresden.de )
  • Terra Sigillata from the time of Vespasian in Rottweil and Pompeii. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1932.
  • 1st century terra sigillata vessels with potters' names. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 1952.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Activity reports . In: Hartwig Zürn (Ed.): Find reports from Swabia . New episode 14.Swisserbeard, Stuttgart 1957, p. 154 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Knorr, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knorr, Robert Karl Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and Roman provincial archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1957
Place of death Wattenweiler , municipality of Weissach in the valley