Rose Hempel

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Rose (marie) Hempel (born March 27, 1920 in Dresden ; † April 3, 2009 there ) was a German art historian with a focus on East Asia .

Life

Rose Hempel studied East Asian art history with Otto Kümmel in Berlin, then Japanology and Sinology . In 1944 she was born in Berlin with the work 36 Shikishi owned by the Staatliche Museen Berlin. A PhD contribution to the Koetsu-Sôtatsu problem .

She then worked for the State Museums in Berlin , then from 1946 to 1950 for the museums in Dresden , among other things as acting director of the Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden . For political reasons she left Dresden and worked for the Museum for East Asian Art in Cologne. From 1959 she became chief curator of the Hamburg Museum of Art and Crafts and head of the Asia department. She taught at the University of Hamburg .

Hempel published numerous publications and was considered a connoisseur of East Asian art of international standing, in particular Japanese painting and woodcut as well as East Asian ceramics. In addition, she was committed to the Association of Friends of the Dresden Kupferstichkabinett .

literature

  • Eleanor von Erdberg : Rose Hempel on her seventy-fifth birthday . In: German Society for East Asian Art . Messages. Volume 11, 1995, pp. 33-34.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Were you able to save your library?” Sinological correspondence from the post-war period, 1946–1950 , viewed on April 17, 2009
  2. ↑ "Rose Hempel is 70 years old"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Hamburger Abendblatt , No. 71 of March 24, 1990, page 14@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.abendblatt.de  
personal data
SURNAME Hempel, Rose
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hempel, Rosemary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, chief curator of the Hamburg Museum of Art and Industry
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 2009
Place of death Dresden