Theodor Volbehr

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Professor Dr. Theodor Volbehr, drawn by Paul Bürck

Theodor Volbehr (born November 6, 1862 in Rendsburg , † August 7, 1931 in Munich ) was a German art historian and museum director.

Life

Theodor Volbehr was one of the sons of the pedagogue Johann Heinrich Christian Volbehr. He attended grammar school in Schleswig and then studied art history at the universities in Leipzig, Berlin, Paris and Munich. In 1885 he was with his dissertation on the painter Antoine Watteau Dr. phil. and took up his first position as librarian in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg in 1886 .

Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg

In 1892 he became the full-time head of the collections of the Kunstgewerbeverein in Magdeburg and its secretary. Volbehr established Magdeburg's first municipal museum in 1893 and became its director in 1895. In 1897 the collections of the Arts and Crafts Association were donated to the municipal authorities. From 1899 to 1908, Volbehr was the first chairman of the Kunstgewerbeverein as the successor to Otto Duvigneau . In 1906 , the new museum building built by the architect Friedrich Ohmann was opened in Magdeburg at Otto-von-Guericke-Straße 68-73 and Volbehr was the founding director of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, which is now the Magdeburg Cultural History Museum , until he left in 1923 .

In 1917/18 he was one of the founders of the German Museum Association .

Fonts

King Bob the Elephant , 1908
  • Antoine Watteau. A contribution to the history of art in the 18th century . Wolf, Munich 1885 (also dissertation Munich 1885)
  • The desire for a new German art , 1901
  • Are there art laws? , 1906
  • King Bob, the elephant , Georg Müller Verlag, Munich 1908, illustrated by the animal painter Paul Neuenborn
  • Image viewing. An Introduction to All Levels of School Education , 1922
  • Looking at the sculptures , 1929

literature

  • Karlheinz Kärgling: Volbehr, Theodor. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 ( article online ).

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SURNAME Volbehr, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Rendsburg
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1931
Place of death Munich