Rolf E. Straub

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Rolf E. Straub (born October 28, 1920 in Freudenstadt ; † March 1, 2011 in Gondiswil , Canton Bern ) was Professor of Painting Technology at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and founder of the Institute for Museum Studies.

life and work

Rolf E. Straub first prepared himself for an artistic education through private art history and drawing studies. From 1947–1951 he completed a basic artistic course at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart , but then became increasingly interested in painting restoration. He took part in the technical lectures and exercises with Kurt Wehlte and attended art history lectures in parallel.

1951–1955 he studied art history and art technology at the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London. His teachers included Helmut Ruhemann, Anthony Blunt , Johannes Wilde, Francis Ian Gregory Rawlins and Ernst Gombrich . He also worked intensively on analytical chemistry.

From 1953 Straub worked as a student assistant at Stephen Rees-Jones. The collaboration with Rees-Jones left a lasting mark on him. As a student, he was instrumental in the invention of the vacuum heating table and developed a new method for the microscopic examination of color samples.

1955–1956 he continued his art history studies at the Instituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico in Barcelona and worked as a restorer in the Atelier Gudiol in Barcelona.

1956–1963 Straub headed the Technology and Restoration Department at the Swiss Institute for Art Research in Zurich.

In 1963 he was appointed professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart as the successor to Kurt Wehlte . In the same year he married the Germanist and art historian Esther Fischer. In 1969 the son Wolfgang Straub was born. Until his retirement in 1982, Rolf E. Straub headed the Institute for Technology of Painting and the Institute for Museum Studies, which he founded in 1967, to which the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Culture received the directors of the State Museums in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe as professors with teaching duties at the Academy assigned. Straub developed the events initiated by Kurt Wehlte in the field of painting technique and conservation into a full-time training course for restorers, with a course of study for the investigation and conservation of wall painting being added in the 1972 summer semester. After the creation of the course “Restoration and Technology of Paintings and Painted Sculptures” in 1975 as part of a thorough study reform at the Stuttgart Academy, on September 16, 1976, on September 16, 1976, for the first time nationwide, a diploma examination regulation for restoration training came into force at university level.

In many publications, Rolf E. Straub dealt with the history of painting technique as well as the conservation and restoration of paintings and sculptures. He advised numerous private and public collections. Under his leadership, the Institute for Technology of Painting and its employees Heide Härlin, Walfried Brandt, Edgar Denninger and Ernst Ludwig Richter formed a stronghold of art technology and art care.

Publications (selection)

  • Rolf E. Straub, Stephen Rees-Jones: Microscopic cross-sections of paintings . In: Technique , 1955, pp 119-125
  • Rolf E. Straub, Stephen Rees-Jones: Marouflage, Relining and the Treatment of Cupping with Atmospheric Pressure . In: Studies in Conservation 2, 1955, pp. 55–63
  • Rolf E. Straub: The technical and the all too technical in painting restoration . In: Maltechnik , 1956, p. 69
  • Rolf E. Straub: The heating table vacuum process for the preservation of canvas pictures . In: Maltechnik , 1958, No. 3, pp. 70–77, p. 114
  • Rolf E. Straub: An Apparatus for the Surface Examination of Paintings . In: Studies in Conservation 6, 1961, pp. 46–48
  • Rolf E. Straub: Retouching with Synthetic Resin Paint . In: Museums Journal 62, 1962, No. 2, pp. 1-7
  • Rolf E. Straub: About the preservation of wooden panel pictures . In: Rolf E. Straub (Ed.), On the Preservation of Paintings and Sculptures , Zurich 1963, pp. 107–171
  • Rolf E. Straub: A Note on AW-2 and MS2-A . In: Museums Journal 63, 1964, pp. 123-124
  • Rolf E. Straub: The treatise de Clarea in the burger library in Bern. Instructions for book illumination from the High Middle Ages . In: Annual report of the Swiss Institute for Art Research , Zurich 1964, pp. 89–114
  • Rolf E. Straub: Disadvantages of doubling on the vacuum heating table and ways of eliminating them . In: Maltechnik 7, 1965, pp. 97-102
  • Rolf E. Straub: Conservation and Monument Preservation Part I: The panel painting , Zurich 1965
  • Rolf E. Straub, Björn Kaland: The Tresfjord Antependium . In: Maltechnik , 1969, No. 1, pp. 6-17
  • Rolf E. Straub: A center for the training of restorers in Stuttgart . In: Museum Studies, 1971/72 (special print)
  • Rolf E. Straub: Teaching and research at the Institute for Painting Technology . In: Akademie-Mitteilungen 5: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: for the period from November 1, 1973 to March 31, 1974. Edited by Wolfgang Kermer . Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, April 1974, pp. 2–7, 9
  • Rolf E. Straub, Ernst Ludwig Richter, Heide Härlin, Walfried Brandt: The Magdalene Altar by Lucas Moser . In: Rolf E. Straub et al. (Ed.): Contributions to the investigation and conservation of medieval works of art . Munich / Berlin 1974, pp. 9-44
  • Rolf E. Straub: Kurt Wehlte as an art technologist . In: Akademie-Mitteilungen 6: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: for the period from April 1, 1974 to March 31, 1975. Edited by Wolfgang Kermer. Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, May 1975, pp. 4–7
  • Rolf E. Straub: A rediscovered painting technique . In: Akademie-Mitteilungen 7: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: for the period from April 1, 1975 to May 31, 1976. Edited by Wolfgang Kermer. Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, August 1976, pp. 22–29
  • Rolf E. Straub, Fritz Rieber: The Herlin Altarpiece at Bopfingen . In: Studies in Conservation 22, 1977, pp. 129-145
  • Rolf E. Straub: The altar of the 18th century. The work of art in its meaning and as a monument preservation task . In: Rolf E. Straub / Georg Sigmund Graf Adelmann (eds.): Papers of the 10th Stuttgart Conference for Monument Preservers and Restorers, Munich / Berlin 1978
  • Rolf E. Straub: On the early history of oil paint in panel painting north of the Alps . In: Heinrich Zollinger et al. (Ed.): Of color and colors. Festschrift for Albert Knoepfli , Zurich 1980, pp. 21–29
  • Rolf E. Straub: Panel and handkerchief painting of the Middle Ages . In: Reclam's Handbook of Artistic Techniques Volume 1, Stuttgart 1984, pp. 131–259
  • Rolf E. Straub: Varnish: . In: Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte Vol. 8, Munich 1987, Sp. 1400–1415

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for Museum Studies . In: Akademie-Mitteilungen 1: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: for the period from October 1, 1971 to March 31, 1972. Edited by Wolfgang Kermer. Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, April 1972, p. 8.
  2. ↑ Establishment of new courses . In: Akademie-Mitteilungen 1: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: for the period from October 1, 1971 to March 31, 1972. Edited by Wolfgang Kermer. Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, April 1972, p. 8. - wandmalereirestaurierung.abk-stuttgart.de
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Kermer: Summary report by the Rector for the period from September 1, 1976 to June 30, 1980 before the Senate of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart on July 8, 1980 . Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, 1980, p. 29; ders .: Data and images on the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988 (= improved reprint from: The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: a self-portrayal . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988), o. P. [15].
  4. ↑ Schießl.
  5. ↑ An impression of the scope and versatility of the institute's work is provided, for example, by a comprehensive overview of the activities in 1976/77, published in: Akademie-Mitteilungen 8: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: for the period from June 1, 1976 to June 31 October 1977. Edited by Wolfgang Kermer. Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, March 1978, pp. 111–112.
  6. ↑ Reference to literature . In: Akademie-Mitteilungen 2: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: for the period from April 1, 1972 to September 30, 1972. Edited by Wolfgang Kermer. Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, October 1972, p. 7
personal data
SURNAME Straub, Rolf E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Straub, Rolf Edward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German restorer, professor of painting technology and founder of the Institute for Museum Studies at the Stuttgart Art Academy
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Freudenstadt
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 2011
Place of death Gondiswil , Canton of Bern