Walther Karl Zülch

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Walther Karl Zülch (born November 17, 1883 in Oberlahnstein ; † August 3, 1966 in Goddelau near Darmstadt) was a German art historian .

Life

He was the son of the grammar school teacher and local researcher Georg Zülch and his wife Caecilie Maria Paff (1859–1907), daughter of the main teacher Karl Pfaff in Hadamar and Katharina Schwarz. Zülch attended high school in Kassel , Parchim and Hersfeld (Abitur in 1904). From 1907 he lived in Frankfurt am Main , temporarily in the rooms of the former Carmelite monastery . During the First World War he suffered serious injuries to his hands. After the war he was a member of the artists' commune in Frankfurt am Main, together with his future brother-in-law Heinrich Döhmann. He studied art history and classical archeology in Marburg, Göttingen and Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate under Carl Neumann in 1932 (?) .

In mid-1933 he became head of the cultural department and mayor of Cologne , and in 1939 he was a city councilor in Poznan . In 1944 he became a monument conservator and archive administrator in Dresden . Zülch was a member of the NSDAP .

After the war, he became director of the district museum in Plauen in 1946 . In 1961, as a pensioner, he moved back to Frankfurt am Main, where he was buried.

Zülch and his wife Franziska, geb. Hähl (1898–1954), two children, a son Ortwin (* 1924) and a daughter, the actress Gisela Zülch (1927–2003).

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In 1911 he began researching the person of Matthias Grünewald . In 1917 he was able to identify the MGN Grünewald monogram as Mathis Gothart Neithardt based on a document from the Frankfurt City Archives . In 1938 he presented the monograph Der Historische Grünewald Mathis Gothart Neithardt on this artist .

The biographical lexicon " Frankfurter Künstler 1223–1700 " (1935) was the fruit of his extensive research into Frankfurt's archival records (considerably decimated in the Second World War ).

Publications (selection)

  • with Gustav Mori : Frankfurt document book on the early history of book printing. From the files of the Frankfurt City Archives . Baer, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1920.
  • Johann Steinwert von Soest : the singer and doctor 1448–1506 . Stamp, Frankfurt a. M. 1920.
  • Origin of the auricle style . Winter, Heidelberg 1932 (= dissertation, digitized version ).
  • Frankfurt artist 1223–1700 . Diesterweg, Frankfurt a. M 1935.
  • The historic Grunewald . Bruckmann, Munich 1938. 2nd revised edition 1949.

literature

  • Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Vol. 2. Kramer, Frankfurt a. M. 1996, pp. 584-585.
  • Ute Haug: The Cologne Art Association during National Socialism - structure and development of an art institution in the cultural and political landscape of the 'Third Reich'. Dissertation TH Aachen 2002 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Zülch, Walther Karl. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Haug p. 980.
personal data
SURNAME Zülch, Walther Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zülch, Walter Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberlahnstein
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 1966
Place of death Goddelau