Werner Speiser

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Werner Walter Paul Speiser (born January 21, 1908 in Sierakowitz , formerly Karthaus district , † February 26, 1965 in Cologne ) was a German art historian with a focus on East Asian art history.

Life

Werner Speiser belonged to the Rheinische Gruppe in the 1930s . As early as 1933 he organized an exhibition with initially 106 works of Chinese painting , which was shown from November 1933 to January 1934 at the Kestner Society in Hanover, then in an expanded form until April in Königsberg Castle , then at the Sächsischer Kunstverein on the Brühlsche Terrasse in Dresden and finally in Cologne.

Speiser received his doctorate in Berlin in 1935 (T'ang Yin). After the German-Japanese Society Cologne was founded in 1938 as the first branch of the Berlin mother association , Speiser acted as its managing director. After the Second World War he received a professorship at the University of Cologne and became head of the seminar for East Asian art that had existed there since 1941.

From 1951 he was director of the Museum for East Asian Art in Cologne.

Speiser married Hildegard Klara Christine Brand in 1949. He died in 1965 at the age of 57 in Cologne University Hospital .

Fonts

  • East Asian culture. Staufen library, Cologne 1943
  • Japanese ink painting. , Kanter Verlag 1944
  • The art of East Asia. Safari Verlag 1946, 1956
  • Near Eastern Art. Safari Verlag 1952
  • China, art of the world . Holle Verlag, Baden-Baden 1959
  • Masterpieces of Chinese painting.  : From the Higashiyama collection, Safari Verlag 1958
  • Chinese and Japanese painting. Safari publisher 1959
  • Eastern architecture: from the turn of the century to the 19th century. Essen: Burkard-Verl. Heyse 1964
  • Lacquer art in East Asia. Baden-Baden: Holle-Verl. 1965
  • China: Spirit and Society. Baden-Baden: Holle-Verl. 1979 = 1959

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Death certificate no. 506 from March 2, 1965, registry office Cologne Lindenthal. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Ken Lum, Zheng Shengtian (eds.): Shanghai Modern. 1919-1945 . Art Pub Incorporated, 2004, ISBN 978-3-7757-1497-6 , pp. 415 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ History of the German-Japanese Society Cologne. Retrieved October 14, 2014 .

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personal data
SURNAME Speiser, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Speiser, Werner Walter Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian with a focus on East Asian art history
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Sierakowitz
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1965
Place of death Cologne