Walter Hentschel

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Walter Hentschel

Walter August Wilhelm Hentschel (born March 25, 1899 in Zwickau , † December 22, 1970 in Dresden ) was a German art historian .

Life

Walter Hentschel's grave at the Weißer Hirsch forest cemetery

After graduating from high school in Zwickau in 1917, Hentschel began studying art history and history at the University of Würzburg , the University of Rostock , the University of Kiel and the University of Leipzig . In Leipzig, Hentschel was with Wilhelm Pinder in 1923 with a thesis on Hans Witten . The master HW is doing his doctorate. In the same year he went to Dresden and found employment as an assistant in the Museum of the Saxon Antiquities Association and in 1925 at the Saxon State Office for Monument Preservation under Walter Bachmann .

In 1945 he became the state museum administrator for Saxony and led the reconstruction of the non-state museums in the state. From 1948 Hentschel worked as a freelancer, in 1950 he joined Eberhard Hempel (1886-1967) as a senior assistant at the Institute for Art History at the Technical University of Dresden , where he was initially professor with a teaching position in 1953. In 1950 he was a member of the executive committee of the building chamber of the regional church office, which also included Mr. O. Hempel, Hultsch, Müller, Nadler and Rietsche. In 1955 the Technical University of Dresden appointed him professor for art history and monument preservation. Two years later he also took over the management of the Institute for Art History and headed the collection for architecture. Since 1961 he was a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . In 1966 he retired. Hentschel died in Dresden in 1970 and was buried in the Weißer Hirsch forest cemetery. A part of his estate is in the main state archive in Dresden . He bequeathed his Old Masters Collection to the Zwickau Art Collections .

The focus of his research was the Saxon art history and architecture. One of his central works, Dresden sculptors of the 16th and 17th centuries , dealt with the Walther family of sculptors . The collection of material and the writing of the work took around 40 years.

Publications (selection)

  • Saxon sculpture around 1500 , Wilhelm Limpert-Verlag, Dresden 1926.
  • Meissen sculptor between late Gothic and baroque , Verlag der Truhe, Meissen 1934.
  • Hans Witten. The master HW , publishing house EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938.
  • Peter Breuer. A late Gothic carving workshop , Wolfgang Jess Verlag, Dresden 1951.
  • Electoral Saxon iron art casting. Vol. 4. Research on Saxon Art History , Wolfgang Jess Verlag, Dresden 1955.
  • The Saxon architecture of the 18th century in Poland , Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1967.
  • Dresden sculptors of the 16th and 17th centuries , Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1966.
  • The central building projects of August the Strong. A contribution to the role of the client in the German Baroque , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1969.
  • Monuments of Saxon art. The losses of World War 2 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1973 (= writings on art history, vol. 15).

literature

  • Prof. Dr. phil. Walter Hentschel on his 70th birthday. Festschrift. In: Scientific journal of the Technical University of Dresden. Jg. 18 (1969), H. 1, pp. 19-76.
  • Hans Reuther: Prof. Dr. phil. Walter Hentschel [obituary]. In: The Minster. Vol. 24 (1971), no. 1, p. 61.
  • Hans Nadler: Walter Hentschel. In: Preservation of monuments in Saxony 1894–1994. Tl. 1, Böhlau, Weimar 1997, pp. 29-38.
  • Hentschel, Walter. In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , pp. 356 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Registration of Walter Hentschel in the Rostock matriculation portal .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Hultsch (ed.): Wars, resistance, Frauenkirche: A life in Dresden . S. 133 .
  3. ↑ Cf. archiv.sachsen.de ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.archiv.sachsen.de
  4. ↑ Kunstsammlungen Zwickau: Painting Collection , accessed on February 14, 2016.
  5. ↑ Cf. Hentschel's preface in Dresden Sculptors of the 16th and 17th Centuries . Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1966.
personal data
SURNAME Hentschel, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hentschel, Walter August Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1970
Place of death Dresden