Walter May (Author)

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Walter May (born October 19, 1937 in Zwickau ) is a German architectural historian. Among other things, he wrote specialist books and articles on the history of architecture in Saxony .

Life

May studied architecture at the Technical University of Dresden , where he on 4 February 1969, the working palace Nischwitz and architecture of the Saxon rococo doctorate . The reviewers of his work were Hans-Joachim Mrusek , Walter Hentschel and Hans Nadler . After Hentschel's death in 1970, May completed his work, Johann Christoph Knöffel . The architect of the Saxon Rococo , which appeared in 1973.

As the successor to Hans-Heinrich Richter, May was director of the Deutsche Fotothek in Dresden from 1975 to 1989 . He is a member of the board of directors of the Dresden History Association , which has published the Dresdner Hefte since 1991 . He also gives lectures and leads courses at the Dresden Adult Education Center .

Publications (selection)

  • Nischwitz Castle and the architecture of the Saxon Rococo. (= Dissertation TU Dresden, Sect. Archit., 2 volumes) Dresden 1969, DNB 482453052
  • together with Walter Hentschel : Johann Christoph Knöffel. The architect of the Saxon Rococo. (= Treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Philological-Historical Class. 64, 1) Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1973, ISSN  0080-5297
  • City churches in Saxony-Anhalt. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1979 (as editor), OCLC 6200632 .
  • together with Hans Konrad and Werner Pampel: Dresden district. in: Architecture Guide GDR . Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979, OCLC 8283284
  • Guide through the Deutsche Fotothek department. Saxon State Library, Dresden 1985, DNB 871225352
  • Castle Wackerbarth's rest. in: Large monuments. Issue 503. (= Die Sächsische Weinstrasse. [6]) Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1996, OCLC 164880012
  • together with Stefan Hertzig and Henning Prinz: The historic Neumarkt in Dresden. Michel Sandstein, Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-937602-46-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Walter May: Castle Nischwitz and architecture of the Saxon rococo. Dissertation, volume 1. TU Dresden, 1969, title page
  2. ^ Walter May: Guide through the German Photo Library. Saxon State Library, Dresden 1985
  3. ^ History of the Deutsche Fotothek on slub-dresden.de, accessed on September 24, 2013
  4. ↑ The board of directors of the history association ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2016 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. at dresden.de, accessed on February 13, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dresden.de
  5. ↑ Course instructor Walter May at vhs-dresden.de, accessed on February 13, 2016
personal data
SURNAME May, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architectural historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau