Walther Scheidig

Walther Otto Friedrich Scheidig (born January 24, 1902 in Suhl ; † 1977 ) was a German art historian .

Life

Walther Scheidig was born in Suhl in 1902. He studied art history, classical archeology and German at the University of Jena . In 1928 he received his doctorate there with the dissertation The miniature cycle for the world chronicle of Otto von Freising in the Codex Jenensis Bose q. 6 .

From 1927 he initially worked as a trainee at the State Art Collections in Weimar , where he became an assistant in 1929. In 1932 he was appointed deputy director, in 1933 ad interim successor to Wilhelm Koehler and in 1942 director of the art collections located in the Weimar City Palace. In addition, during the Third Reich he was acting director of the museums in Eisenach and Altenburg and held the position of regional expert for the “protection of German cultural assets against emigration”. He held the position of director of the art collections until 1967. He was followed by Gerhard Pommeranz-Liedtke and, from 1975, Liselotte Honigmann-Zinserling. Under Scheidig's direction, highly acclaimed exhibitions arose, for example on Lucas Cranach (1953), Rembrandt (1960) and Christian Rohlfs (1963) and on the Weimar School of Painting (1960).

Walther Scheidig was the author of numerous books and essays on art history, some of which appeared in multiple editions. One of his best known works is: The history of the Weimar School of Painting 1860–1900 . The book, first published in 1971, is a review of the work at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar .

Publications (selection)

• The miniature cycle for the world chronicle of Otto von Freising in Codex Jenensis Bose q. 6. Heitz, Strasbourg 1928
• German graphics from the Goethe era. Graphics-Verlag Mock, Weimar 1949
• The Weimar School of Painting in the 19th Century. Richter, Erfurt 1950
• Catalog of the Lucas-Cranach exhibition: Weimar and Wittenberg, July to October 1953. Introduction and biograph. Overview: Heinz Lüdecke. Overall processing and explanatory catalog: Walther Scheidig, Dt. Lucas Cranach Committee, Weimar 1953
• Franz Horny : 1798 Weimar – Olevano 1824. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1954
• The woodcuts of the Petrarch master : Von der Artzney bayder Glück, the good and the disgusting, Augsburg 1532. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1955
• Otto Herbig : Honorary exhibition on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Weimar 1955
• Rembrandt: etchings, drawings. (Catalog text and overall arrangement), exhibition in Dresden, Weimar, Schwerin and Leipzig, Lucas-Cranach-Commission at the Ministry f. Culture d. GDR, Berlin 1956
• Weimar: a guide through the city of German classical music. with Albrecht von Heinemann and Walter Iwan, Volksverlag, Weimar 1957
• German drawings: the citizen and his world; 1720-1820. Exhibition, Weimar 1958
• Rembrandt and his works in the Dresden gallery. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1958
• Walther Klemm as a graphic artist. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1959
• Goethe and the Wartburg. National research and memorial sites for the classics of German literature , Weimar 1961 and 1966
• Rembrand as a draftsman. Seemann, Leipzig 1962 (4th ed. 1976) / Rembrandt's Drawings. English by Margaret Playle, Boston Book & art shop, 1965
• Christian Rohlfs, 1849–1938: paintings, drawings, prints. Exhibition on the 25th anniversary of the death of the Nationalgalerie (Berlin, East) and State Art Collections Weimar, Berlin 1963
• Painting masterpieces: treasures from small and medium-sized collections. Edition Leipzig, 1964
• Unknown masterpieces of painting: Treasures from small and medium-sized collections in East Germany. Bruckmann, Munich 1965 (License, Edition Leipzig, 1964)
• Christian Rohlfs. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1965
• Bauhaus Weimar: 1919-1924; Workshop work. Recordings by Klaus G. Beyer, Süddt. Verlag, Munich 1966 / Edition Leipzig, 1966 and 1971
• The history of the Weimar School of Painting 1860–1900. Böhlau, Weimar 1971
• The history of the Weimar School of Painting 1860–1900. New edition, Renate Müller-Krumbach (Ed.), Seemann, Leipzig 1991, ISBN 3-363-00538-5

Fonts

• The faience factory in Ilmenau and the attempts to manufacture porcelain at the court of Duke Ernst August von Sachsen-Weimar . In: Journal of the Association for Thuringian History and Archeology. Jena 1931
• Thuringian glass tailoring and glass painting in the service of Duke Ernst August von Sachsen-Weimar (1708–1748). In: Journal of the Association for Thuringian History and Archeology. Jena 1931
• The Reformation carpet in the Weimar Castle Museum and its master Seger Bombeck (Leipzig 1543–1559). In: The Thuringian Flag. Vol. 4, Neuenhahn, Jena 1935
• The Leipzig Fair. (= Shuttle library 35). Weber, Leipzig 1938
• Bernhard von Weimar and the Thirty Years War. with Hildegard Marchand, catalog of the memorial exhibition in the Weimar Castle Museum, Uschmann, Weimar 1939
• On the building history of the Weimar Library. In: Journal of the Association for Thuringian History and Archeology. Jena 1941
• The castle in Weimar. Thüringer Volksverlag, Weimar 1949
• Hand drawings from the holdings of the State Art Collections in Weimar. Anger Museum , Erfurt 1952
• Article for the New German Biography (NDB): u. a. Nikolaus Gromann , Johann Ernst Heinsius , Johann Julius Heinsius, Johann Christian Heintz, Franz Horny , Karl Ludwig Kaaz

literature

• Lothar Ehrlich: The "Castle War" of 1967 - not just a contribution to the failed takeover of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Weimar by the NFG . In: “Forschen und Bilden”: the national research and memorial sites for classical German literature in Weimar 1953–1991 . Böhlau, Cologne (among others) 2005, ISBN 978-3-412-22705-0 , p. 53–68 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Gerda Wendermann: Walther Scheidig and the State Art Collections in Weimar in the 'Third Reich'. In: Publications of the English Goethe Society. 84, 2015, pp. 239-251 ( abstract by Taylor & Francis ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Walther Scheidig in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerda Wendermann: Walther Scheidig and the State Art Collections in Weimar in the 'Third Reich'. See literature
2. ↑ See literature: Lothar Ehrlich, p. 56.
3. ^ Christiane Weber: Unique "Luther Carpet" exhibited in the New Museum Weimar. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung Weimar. TLZ.de, January 31, 2016, accessed on May 12, 2016 .