Steffi Schmidt (art historian)

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Steffi Schmidt (born December 3, 1922 in Berlin ; † April 1990 there ) was a German art historian.

life and work

Steffi Schmidt attended school in Vlissingen and Amsterdam from 1929 to 1940, where she also graduated from high school. After a short intermezzo at work, from 1940 to 1943 she studied Folklore and Commerce in the Netherlands and Indonesia, Dutch and Japanese Studies at the University of Berlin, where she passed the diploma examination in Dutch with very good in 1941 and at the "Seminar for East Asian Languages" (SOS) in 1943 obtained the Japanese language diploma. She was conscripted during the last two years of the war, and after the war she worked as a librarian in Berlin-Weißensee.

In 1948 Schmidt passed the public library service exam. In addition to a commercial activity, she studied East Asian art history at the University of Heidelberg from 1948 to 1952 and then worked for the Dutch embassy in Bonn. She also attended the University of Bonn as a guest student . In 1959 she did her doctorate there with the topic “The Netherlands and the Dutch in the judgment of German travelers. An examination of German travelogues from the middle of the 17th to the middle of the 19th century. ”Then there was an opportunity to study East Asian folklore at the University of Tōkyō and also at the Gakugei University , which led to an activity at the research institute of the German Society for Foreign policy in Bonn followed.

In 1963 the Fritz Thyssen Foundation made it possible for Schmidt to edit the catalog of East Asian woodcuts in the Berlin Art Library from 1963 to 1966, a topic that determined the future for them. From 1966 on, she was initially employed as a research assistant, then as custodian and therefore responsible for the Japan holdings, and finally as senior custodian at the “Museum of East Asian Art”. As part of her museum work, she has supervised a number of exhibitions, which were also shown in Düsseldorf, Bonn, Denmark and Japan.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Since 2006 expanded to “ Museum for Asian Art (Berlin) ”.

Publications (selection)

  • Travesties in Japanese woodcut from the Edo period (1615–1867). Contributions to the art of East Asia . (MOAG 48.) Tôkyô 1968, 51-106.
  • Masterpieces of Japanese color woodcut. Exhibition by the art library in the Haus am Waldsee, September 25 - October 31, 1965. Berlin 1965.
  • Masterpieces of Japanese color woodcut. Exhibition in the State Museum Bielefeld, 6.1. – 30.1.1966. Bielefeld 1966.
  • Catalog of Chinese and Japanese Woodblock Prints. 1971.
  • Acting and dancing in Japanese woodblock prints. Exhibition at the KunstamtWedding, 10.10. – 13.11.1974. Berlin 1974.
  • East Asian woodcuts II . 1975. With Susanne Wen-pu Yao.
  • East Asian woodcuts I . 1976.
  • A woodcut fold-out album with depictions of plants by the Japanese painter Itô Jakuchû, dated 1768. Yearbook of Prussian Cultural Heritage. 22.1985, 413-426.
  • Korekushon no rekishi. Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from Museum of East Asian Art . Exhibition in Tôkyo, Shizuoka, Osaka and Nagoya, September 9–8, 1988. Tôkyô 1988.
  • Surimono - Precious Japanese woodblock prints from the Museum of East Asian Art, Berlin. Together with Setsuko Kuwabara. Berlin, Reimer 1990, ISBN 3-496-01071-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Steffi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 1990
Place of death Berlin