Rudolf Wesenberg

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Rudolf Wesenberg (born November 19, 1910 in Stargard ; † May 20, 1974 in Bonn ) was a German art historian and monument conservator .

Life

Wesenberg studied art studies and philosophy in Berlin, Vienna, Munich and Gießen from 1931 to 1935, where he received his doctorate from Christian Rauch with a thesis on the Gothic sacraments . In 1936 he became an employee of Friedrich Bleibaum at the state curator of Hesse and Kassel . After an interruption due to the war, he became assistant to the state curator in Braunschweig in 1947 and in Hanover in 1950, where he completed his habilitation at the Technical University with a work on the early Romanesque sculpture of Bishop Bernwards von Hildesheim , published by the German Association for Art Research . From 1956 to 1970 he headed the Rhenish Office for the Preservation of Monuments as state curator , and at the same time taught as honorary professor at the University of Bonn . He responded to the new challenges to the preservation of monuments by setting up a department for technical cultural monuments . Together with Albert Verbeek , he founded the series Die Kunstdenkmäler des Rheinlandes , which continued the older inventory of art monuments . In 1970, Wesenberg was appointed as the successor to Walter Bader as advisor for monument preservation in the Ministry of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf.

Appreciation

"The Rhenish state curator Rudolf Wesenberg and his colleague Roland Günter ... played a key role in expanding the concept of monument ."

Fonts (selection)

  • The Gothic sacrament house, development and artistic design illustrated using examples from Hesse and the Middle Rhine region. Gutenberg, Melsungen 1937
  • Wino von Helmarshausen and the cross-shaped octagon. In: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 12, 1949, pp. 30–40.
  • Bernwardine sculpture. On Ottonian art under Bishop Bernward von Hildesheim. German Association for Art History, Berlin 1955.
  • Curvatura Erkanbaldi abbatis: Determination and dating of the silver crooks in the Hildesheim cathedral treasure. F. Steiner, Hildesheim 1957.
  • The bronze crucifix of Minden Cathedral. In: Westfalen 37, 1959, pp. 57-69.
  • The Bucco Cross in the Halberstadt Cathedral Treasure: a Cologne picture from the 11th century. Böhlau, Cologne 1967
  • Early medieval sculptures. The schools of Rhenish sculpture and their charisma . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1972, ISBN 978-350-800179-3 .

literature

  • Paul Schotes: Rudolf Wesenberg †. In: Deutsche Kunst und Denkmalpflege 32, 1974, p. 159f.
  • Günther Borchers and Albert Verbeek (eds): Contributions to Rhenish art history and preservation of monuments , Bd, 1: Rudolf Wesenberg on his 60th birthday . ( The art monuments of the Rhineland , supplement 16). Schwann, Düsseldorf, 1970. ISBN 3-7927-0057-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Warda: Repairing architecture in the “throwaway society”. On the resource-economic dimension of the concept of monument . In: Markus Tauschek, Maria Grewe: Scarcity, Lack, Abundance: Cultural Studies Positions on Dealing with Limited Resources . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-50475-9 , p. 315.
personal data
SURNAME Wesenberg, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and state curator
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Stargard
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1974
Place of death Bonn