Werner Teupser

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Herbert Werner Teupser (born June 17, 1895 in Leipzig ; † January 2, 1954 in Munich ) was a German art historian . He was director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig.

life and work

After archaeological trips to Italy, Teupser studied modern and contemporary art history at the University of Leipzig with August Schmarsow , Rudolf Wackernagel and Adolph Goldschmidt . When Wilhelm Pinder he was in 1921 in Leipzig with a thesis The German-Roman classical landscape from the late 18th century doctorate. Teupser remained committed to researching Italian art throughout his life.

In 1923 Teupser became an employee and in 1929 director of the Museum of Fine Arts and at the same time artistic director and from 1939 managing director of the Leipziger Kunstverein. Teupser was involved in the Aryanization of Jewish art collections in Leipzig during the National Socialist era . He was considered moderate and endeavored to secure expropriated works and divert them to the museum's holdings.

In the mid-1920s he was Leipzig correspondent for the art magazine Der Cicerone , and in the 1950s Teupser wrote numerous articles for the Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB).

literature

  • Werner Teupser (Ed.): Art and its collection in Leipzig. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Leipzig Art Association and Museum of Fine Arts, Breitkopf & Härtel, 1937

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Teupser died. Kunstchronik , Volume 7, 1954, Verlag Hans Carl, Munich (obituary), p. 170
  2. ↑ Cornelia Briel, Petra Knöller: "Aryanization" in Leipzig: Approaching a long-suppressed chapter of the city's history from 1933 to 1945 , Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2007 ISBN 978-3-86583142-2 p. 232
personal data
SURNAME Teupser, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Teupser, Herbert Werner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1954
Place of death Munich