Theodor Riewerts

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Theodor Riewerts (born October 28, 1907 , † February 17, 1944 near Cherkassy ) was a German art historian.

Life

Riewerts came from a Frisian family originally based on the island of Föhr and was the son of the eponymous pastor Theodor Riewerts (* 1874) and grandson of the Neumünster provost Brar Volkert Riewerts (1842-1933). He studied art history and received his doctorate in 1930 from the University of Kiel with a dissertation on the Schleswig painters Marten and Govert vanhaben .

After a short internship at the Grassimuseum in Leipzig , he was employed by Carl Georg Heise in January 1933 as a research assistant at the Lübeck museums . As a result of Heise's forced retirement, he ran the museums as deputy director from December 1933 to May 1934, but left Lübeck after the nationalization of the museums and the introduction of the new director Hans Schröder in June 1934.

In October 1934 he was responsible for setting up the Bad Doberan local history museum in the Möckel House. He then headed the East Frisian State Museum in Emden until 1936 .

In 1936 he became assistant director at the Westphalian State Museum in Münster . After the beginning of the Second World War , he was acting head of the house as deputy director. Drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1941, he was killed in the Cherkassy Kessel Battle in February 1944 . His monograph on the tom Ring family of painters ( Ludger tom Ring the Elder , Hermann tom Ring , Ludger tom Ring the Younger ) was brought to a close by his colleague Paul Pieper from Münster .

His son Cornelius , born in 1940, became a journalist and member of the state parliament.

Publications (selection)

  • Marten and Govert van Nahrungsmittel: 2 Schleswig painters around 1600. In: Nordelbingen. Contributions to homeland research in Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Lübeck. Vol. 9, 1930 (also separately Westholsteinische Verlags-Anstalt, Heide in Holstein 1932) (= dissertation University of Kiel 1930).
  • The Doberaner Heimatmuseum in the Möckel House. In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte 11, 1935, pp. 36-38 ( digitized version ).
  • The painter Johannes Willinges in Lübeck. In: Journal of the German Association for Art Research 3, 1936, pp. 275–302.
  • with Robert Nissen: Westphalia's contribution to German contemporary art: painting, sculpture, graphics. [Münster]: [sn], 1937.
  • Masterpieces of Dutch and Flemish painting from Westphalian private ownership: Exhibition ... State Museum of the Province of Westphalia for Art and Cultural History, 6 August to 22 October 1939. State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Münster (Westphalia) 1939.
  • with Paul Pieper : The painter tom Ring. Ludger the Elder, Hermann, Ludger the Younger (= Westphalian art ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1955.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of death according to the preface by Paul Pieper in Die Maler tom Ring (lit.); The search for graves , Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge says missing since February 1, 1944
  2. ^ Carl Georg Heise: Lübeck Art Care 1920–1933. Published on behalf of the head of the Museum of Art and Cultural History. Lübeck 1934, SX
  3. ^ Theodor Riewerts: The Doberaner Heimatmuseum in the Möckel house. In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte 11 (1935) pp. 36–38.
personal data
SURNAME Riewerts, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1907
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1944
Place of death at Cherkassy