Siegfried Wichmann

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Siegfried Wichmann (born February 10, 1921 in Bärndorf , Hirschberg district , Silesia province ; died May 6, 2015 in Starnberg ) was a German art historian .

Life

Siegfried Wichmann comes from a family of artists, his father was the painter Georg Wichmann . Wichmann was deployed as a mountain hunter in World War II on the Arctic Ocean front, where he learned to play chess and later wrote two internationally successful chess books.

Wichmann studied art history and received his doctorate from the University of Munich in 1953 with a thesis on Eduard Schleich the Elder , and from 1958 worked as a curator at the Neue Pinakothek . He traveled to Japan and lived in Canada for several years. An important collection of glasses of the floral Art Nouveau that he assembled is now in the Bavarian National Museum . In 1967 he received a professorship for art history at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe . In 1968 he was commissioned to curate the exhibition “World Cultures and Modern Art” on the occasion of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich's Haus der Kunst , which occupied him for five years. The budget was 5 million DM; At times, 100 employees were involved. 1985–89 he was director at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich.

Kaulbach's oil sketch as the starting point for Wichmann's theory of the murder of Ludwig II (1886)

Wichmann wrote a large number of art history monographs and also contributions to the New German Biography . He curated exhibitions at home and abroad, his specialty being painting from the end of the 19th century. In the 1950s he began to create a catalog raisonné for Carl Spitzweg , which appeared for the first time in 2002. In the scientific debate about Spitzweg he also made use of the pseudonym Manuel Albrecht, which the Kiel art historian Jens Christian Jensen was only able to discover many years later.

In addition, he researched the death of the Bavarian King Ludwig II , for which he presented his own theory in 2007; The impetus for this was a contemporary sketch by Hermann von Kaulbach , which he analyzed for the first time in 1967.

Wichmann lived in Söcking .

Fonts (selection)

Wichmann collection in the National Museum:
stem glass in the shape of a tulip
  • Eduard Schleich the Elder 1812–1874 . Munich, Phil. F., dissertation from September 11, 1953
  • with Hans Wichmann: chess. Origin and transformation of the play figure over twelve centuries , Callwey, Munich 1960
  • Aladin lamp (pseudonym): The lady and the king: Kulturgeschichte d. Chess game . Bruckmann, Munich 1962
  • Manuel Albrecht (pseudonym): Carl Spitzweg's painter's paradise . Schuler, Stuttgart 1968
  • Franz von Lenbach and his time. DuMont, Cologne 1973
  • Japonism: East Asia - Europe. Encounters in the art of the 19th and 20th centuries . Herrsching 1980
  • Julius Seyler - Newly Discovered Works , 1988
  • Munich landscape painter in the 19th century. Masters, students, subjects. Seehamer, Weyarn 1996
  • Compton. Edward Theodore and Edward Harrison; Painters and alpinists . Belser-Verlag, Stuttgart 1999
  • Karl Mostböck - the painter of the codified form , with a foreword by Walter Koschatzky , introduction by Siegfried Wichmann, Spital am Pyrn, 2001
  • Carl Spitzweg - Traveling and hiking in Europe and the happy angle. Belser, Stuttgart 2002
  • Carl Spitzweg - Directory of Works. Paintings and watercolors. Belser, Stuttgart 2002
  • with Christa Habrich : Carl Spitzweg, the painter and pharmacist. Nature and science in his work. For the exhibition in the German Medical History Museum Ingolstadt. Belser, Stuttgart 2003
  • The big gesture in a small format, The painter Karl Mostböck , in: Parnass , art magazine, 2003
  • u. a .: Karl Mostböck, Modulations in Color and Characters , Steyr, 2006
  • The killing of King Ludwig II of Bavaria . Self-published, 2007 ISBN 978-3-00-022234-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Siegfried Wichmann , in: Clarissas Krambude: Authors tell of their pseudonyms , from Clarissa, novum pro Verlag, 2011, p. 298 f.
  2. ↑ a b c d Rosemarie Frühauf: Art historian Wichmann on the unnatural death of Ludwig II (part 1) , at The Epoch Times Germany, March 24, 2008.
  3. ^ Siegfried Wichmann , at the Bavarian Order of Merit.
  4. ↑ Quite a circus . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1972 ( online ).
  5. ↑ World cultures and modern art; the encounter of 19th and 20th century European art and music with Asia, Africa, Oceania, Afro- and Indo-America. Exhibition on the occasion of the Games of the XXth Olympiad . Munich 1972.
  6. ↑ Year of appointment according to Wichmann's curriculum vitae from 1995, different information from Simone Rethel: Say never you're too old, Frankfurt aM 2010
  7. ↑ Millions in prices and forgeries , in: Münchner Merkur , April 6, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Wichmann, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lamp, Aladin (pseudonym); Albrecht, Manuel (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Bärndorf , district of Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains, Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 2015
Place of death Starnberg