Ruth Schmitz-Ehmke

Ruth Schmitz-Ehmke (born September 13, 1925 in Danzig ; † December 2, 2007 in Bonn ) was a German art historian and monument conservator .

Life

The Protestant Ruth Ehmke was the daughter of the doctor Paul Ehmke and his wife Hedwig Ehmke, née Hafften. From 1932 to 1936 she attended elementary school and then the secondary school for girls in Gdansk. In 1944 she received her secondary school leaving certificate . Her interest in art was evidently already encouraged in her parents' home, a “beautiful patrician house”, where numerous artists frequented and the local town planning officer, monument conservators and art historians stayed as “godparents and friends”. Her younger brother Horst Ehmke wrote in his memoirs in 1984: "No wonder that my sister Ruth later became an art historian."

After she had attended lectures in the history of art and literature at the Technical University in Stuttgart in the winter semester 1947/48 and in the following summer semester 1948 , she switched to the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn for the winter semester 1948/49 , where she studied art history , Studied archeology and prehistory . In 1954 she received her doctorate there with the work The Fresco Cycle from Idensen to Dr. phil. Among her academic teachers, she singled out Herbert von Eine , to whom she owed special thanks. After working as a researcher, Ruth Schmitz-Ehmke found work at the Institute of Art History and the Institute for Prehistory and Early History in Bonn. From 1961 she also made a name for herself as a research assistant at the Dehio Association . With the publication there of the new edition of the volume “Rhineland” within the series Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler in 1967, it achieved greater awareness. She also contributed the unfinished manuscript to its second edition, published in 2005.

On July 1, 1965, Ruth Ehmke joined the Rhenish Office for Monument Preservation in Bonn as a research assistant . During this time she wrote a monograph on Ordensburg Vogelsang and large inventories on Bad Münstereifel and large parts of Schleiden . On October 1, 1990, she resigned from the office that had been in Brauweiler since 1985 .

Fonts

The Idensen fresco cycle. at the same time dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn, Bonn 1954.

with Ernst Gall : Handbook of German Art Monuments. North Rhine-Westphalia I: Rhineland. ( Dehio manual ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich Berlin 1967

The former castle church in Schleiden , Rheinische Kunststätten, Ges. Für Buchdr., Neuss 1980, ISBN 3-88094-338-9

The architectural and art monuments of the Euskirchen district. City of Bad Münstereifel. (= The architectural and art monuments of North Rhine-Westphalia I. Rhineland 9.1) Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-7861-1403-X .

The Ordensburg Vogelsang : Architecture - Building Sculpture - Equipment. (Landschaftsverband Rheinland - Landeskonservator Rheinland. Arbeitsheft 41) Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1988 (2003 2nd revised and expanded edition ISBN 3-7927-1877-4 ; 2010 4th revised and expanded edition ISBN 978-3 -88462-299-5 - further arrangement by Monika Herzog)

with Barbara Fischer: The architectural and art monuments of the Euskirchen district. City of Schleiden (= The architectural and art monuments of North Rhine-Westphalia I. Rhineland 9.9) Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7861-1873-6

Web links

Literature by and about Ruth Schmitz-Ehmke in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c The Idensen fresco cycle. at the same time dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn, Bonn 1954 (curriculum vitae).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Angelika Schyma : Obituary Dr. Ruth Schmitz-Ehmke. (= Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland, 25th year, no. 1) Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft , Worms 2008, ISSN 0177-2619 , p. 48.
^ Rudolf Wesenberg (Ed.): Yearbook of the Rhenish Preservation of Monuments. Volume XXV. Reports on the activities of the monument preservation in the years 1959–1964 . Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer 1965, p. 435.
↑ Udo Mainzer (Ed.): Yearbook of the Rhenish Preservation of Monuments. Volume 36. Commemorative publication for the centenary of the Rheinisches Amt für Denkmalpflege . Rheinland Verlag / Butzon & Bercker, Cologne / Kevelaer 1993, pp. 545 and 599.

personal data
SURNAME	Schmitz-Ehmke, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ehmke, Ruth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German art historian and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH	September 13, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Danzig
DATE OF DEATH	December 2, 2007
Place of death	Bonn

[Lebenslauf-1] The Idensen fresco cycle. at the same time dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn, Bonn 1954 (curriculum vitae).

[Nachruf-2] Angelika Schyma : Obituary Dr. Ruth Schmitz-Ehmke. (= Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland, 25th year, no. 1) Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft , Worms 2008, ISSN 0177-2619 , p. 48.

[3] Rudolf Wesenberg (Ed.): Yearbook of the Rhenish Preservation of Monuments. Volume XXV. Reports on the activities of the monument preservation in the years 1959–1964 . Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer 1965, p. 435.

[4] Udo Mainzer (Ed.): Yearbook of the Rhenish Preservation of Monuments. Volume 36. Commemorative publication for the centenary of the Rheinisches Amt für Denkmalpflege . Rheinland Verlag / Butzon & Bercker, Cologne / Kevelaer 1993, pp. 545 and 599.