Siegfried Salzmann

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Siegfried Salzmann (born March 1, 1928 in Hanover ; † March 1994 in Bremen ) was a German art historian and art scholar .

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Siegfried Salzmann was born the son of the music teacher Heinrich Salzmann and his wife Magdalena (née Heinemeyer). Salzmann first studied in Hanover and Munich, then art history in Göttingen, where he received his doctorate in 1956 under Heinz Rudolf Rosemann with his dissertation on the Katharinenkirche in Osnabrück . He completed his internship at the Städtisches Museum Göttingen , where he worked on the sculpture collection. Since 1960, Salzmann was involved in various functions in setting up the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg, which he headed as director from 1971 to 1984.

From 1985 to 1993 he was the director of the Kunsthalle Bremen . As an art historian and art historian , the focus of his research and collecting was on the art of the 20th century, especially on the sculpture of the 20th century. For many years he worked on the critical catalog of Wilhelm Lehmbruck's sculpture .

Salzmann died at the beginning of 1994 after a serious illness at the age of 66 in Bremen.

Publications (selection)

  • The building history of the parish church St. Katharinen zu Osnabrück. Machine writing, Göttingen 1956 (= diss.).
  • Myth of Europe - Europe and the bull in the age of industrial civilization. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-89234-086-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data from Siegfried Salzmann in: Who's Who in Germany - The German Who's Who. 5th edition. Who's Who Book & Publishing, Ottobrunn 1974, ISBN 3-921220-05-X , p. 1432.
personal data
SURNAME Salzmann, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, art historian and art scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover , Germany
DATE OF DEATH March 1994
Place of death Bremen , Germany