Werner Gramberg

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Werner Gramberg (born July 26, 1896 in Lyck ; † September 4, 1985 in Hamburg ) was a German art historian .

Life

Gramberg, son of the administrative lawyer Arthur Gramberg and his wife Anna (née Ganzert). He attended the humanistic grammar school in Gumbinnen and then the royal Friedrichskollegium in Königsberg , where he passed his Abitur in 1917; His high school education was interrupted by his participation in the First World War from 1914 to 1918. He first studied from 1919 in Königsberg and Munich and worked in the art trade from 1921 to 1924. He then studied art history in Berlin, Vienna and Freiburg and received his doctorate in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1928 under Hans Jantzen and Walter Friedlaender . In 1932/33 he received a scholarship at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome. In May 1933 the job he had been promised as curator for Italian sculpture at the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum in Berlin failed due to the non-Aryan descent of his wife. Attempts to emigrate failed; he lived with his family in Berlin under difficult conditions.

In 1949 he became head of the Münzkabinett at the Hamburger Kunsthalle , and from 1951 until his retirement in 1960 he was head of the sculpture department and deputy director there. In addition, he taught from 1957 as an honorary professor for art history and from 1969 as a professor (§ 73 UniG) for art history at the University of Hamburg .

His specialty was Italian plastic. Among other things, he wrote the articles on Guglielmo , Theodoro and Tommaso della Porta for the General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present .

Fonts (selection)

  • Giovanni Bologna. An investigation into the works of his wandering years (until 1567). Libau 1936 (also dissertation Freiburg im Breisgau 1928, digitized ).
  • with Gert Hatz : A cultural history of coins and the coinage. Urbes Verlag, Hamburg 1957, OCLC 315146414 .
  • JG Schadow, The group of princesses (= Reclam's work monographs ). Reclam, Stuttgart 1961.
  • The Düsseldorf sketchbooks of Guglielmo della Porta. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1964, OCLC 906593952 .

literature

  • Georg Syamken: In memoriam Werner Gramberg. In: Idea. 5, 1986, pp. 139-145.
  • Ulrike Wendland: Gramberg, Werner . In: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Part 1: A – K. . KG Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , p. 237-238 ( books.google.de - reading sample).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gramberg was married to Olga Oettinger, the couple had a son who was born in 1922.
  2. ↑ Werner Gramberg: della Porta . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 282-283 .
personal data
SURNAME Gramberg, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Elk
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 1985
Place of death Hamburg