Theodor Demmler

Theodor Demmler (born January 13, 1879 in Heilbronn , † July 21, 1944 in Berlin ) was a German art historian .

Life

Theodor Demmler was the son of the evangelical clergyman Emil Demmler (1843–1922). After studying art history at the universities of Tübingen and Berlin from 1904 and receiving his doctorate in Tübingen in 1909, he became a trainee at the Berlin State Museums in 1910 . During his studies he became a member of the Roigel Royal Society of Tübingen . In 1911 Demmler became an employee of the "Sculptures of the Christian Epochs" department of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum . Here he was appointed assistant in 1913, deputy director in 1915 and director of this department in 1919 as successor to Wilhelm von Bode . He went on numerous study trips. During the First World War he worked on behalf of the Supreme Army Command in the context of art protection in the occupied western territories, in particular in the "protection and recovery" of art monuments in northern France. He was mainly concerned with the art of the Middle Ages and modern times. He was married to Gertrud von Falke, daughter of the art historian Otto von Falke . Their common grave is on the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

Fonts (selection)

• The grave monuments of the Württemberg royal house and their masters in the 16th century. Heitz, Strasbourg 1910 ( digitized version ).
  • Partial print from it The Augsburg sculptor Paul Mair (approx. 1540-1615) and his activities in Württemberg . 1910 (= Dissertation Tübingen 1909).
• The master of the Breisach high altar . In: Yearbook of the Prussian Art Collections 35, 1914, pp. 103–135.
• Salvaged works of art from occupied northern France , Munich 1918.
• The sculptures of the Deutsches Museum , 4 vols., Berlin 1923.
• German sculptures in the Deutsches Museum , Berlin 1930.
• Tilman Riemenschneider's masterpieces , Berlin 1939.

literature

• Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, p. ( Digitized version ).
• Acquisitions for the Deutsches Museum, 1919-1939. Theodor Demmler on his 60th birthday; Berlin, January 13, 1939. Berlin 1939
• German Biographical Encyclopedia. 2nd edition, Vol. 2. KG Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-598-25030-9 , p. 549.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 132-133.

Web links

• Literature by and about Theodor Demmler in the catalog of the German National Library