Werner Sumowski

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Werner Sumowski (born March 8, 1931 in Ortelsburg ( East Prussia ), † September 3, 2015 in Stuttgart ) was a German art historian . He was considered one of the world's leading experts on the painting school of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn .

life and work

Sumowski came to Berlin as a war orphan after the Second World War , where he studied in the eastern part of the city at Humboldt University with Richard Hamann and published his first articles in 1956. In 1959 he fled to the Federal Republic and became a research assistant to Hans Wentzel at the Technical University in Stuttgart . There he wrote his habilitation thesis on Caspar David Friedrich and became a private lecturer in 1967 . After publishing his work on the early romantic Friedrich, he was appointed university lecturer in 1971, extraordinary professor in 1973 and finally professor in Stuttgart in 1979 , where he worked until his retirement in 1993.

Following his teacher Hamann, Sumowski dedicated almost his entire professional life to the painter Rembrandt and the work of his numerous students such as Aert de Gelder , Jan Lievens and Samuel van Hoogstraten . From 1979 he published his ten-volume description of the drawings of the Rembrandt School and, from 1983, his six-volume depiction of the painting by the Dutch baroque painter's students .

Exhibitions

  • Aert de Gelder, Samuel van Hoogstraten, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn u. a., teacher Rembrandt, teacher Sumowski ( Kunstverein Aalen , October 6, 2019 - January 26, 2020)

literature

  • Werner Sumowski (Ed.): Caspar David Friedrich. His work in the judgment of contemporaries. With 50 color plates . Pawlak, 1976.
  • Werner Sumowski (ed.): Painting by the Rembrandt students. 6 volumes . Edition PVA, Landau 1983.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dietrich Heißenbüttel: A Rembrandt from Sumo's legacy. kontextwochenzeitung.de, accessed on February 28, 2020 .
  2. ^ Dietrich Heißenbüttel: When art becomes moldy. kontextwochenzeitung.de, accessed on February 28, 2020 .
  3. ^ Dietrich Heißenbüttel: In Memoriam: Werner Sumowski. hnanews.org, accessed February 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Sumowski, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Ortelsburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 2015
Place of death Stuttgart