Werner Timm

Timm's parental home in Graal-Müritz , where he died in 1999

Werner Timm (born January 23, 1927 in Rostock , † April 22, 1999 in Graal-Müritz ) was a German art historian.

Life

Timm grew up in Graal-Müritz , where his parents ran a small guesthouse and his father was a blacksmith. He went to secondary schools in Ribnitz and Rostock and was an anti-aircraft helper in Rostock during the last months of the war . After the war he studied art history in Rostock. In the mid-1950s he became director of the Kupferstichkabinett at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin . In 1966 he was offered a position at the Kunsthalle Hamburg . The application to leave the GDR and be able to accept this offer led to his dismissal without notice. Timm then worked freelance and later at the GDR exhibition center. In 1979 he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany . From 1979 until his retirement in 1992, Timm was director of the Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg . Until his death, Timm undertook numerous extended trips around the world, the last of which led him to Easter Island .

Timm was married to the art historian Dr. Regine Timm and had two children.

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Particularly noteworthy are his standard works on the graphic work of Käthe Kollwitz and Edvard Munch . In connection with his work in Regensburg , Timm has produced a number of well-known exhibition catalogs, for example on Lovis Corinth and Lyonel Feininger . His origins from the sea also occupied him as an art historian. Pictures of captains and ships and their fates are the two most extensive works on this subject. I want to stay here is the title of a story of the Baltic Sea resort Graal-Müritz that Timm published in the mid-1990s. Finally, a volume on swimwear was published posthumously.

Timm was a member of the Schlaraffia men's association , where he was named Timbad der Sehfahrer . This inscription also adorns his tombstone in Graal-Müritz.

Publications (selection)

• From bathing shirt to bikini: Swimwear and bathing life through the ages , Husum Verlag, Husum 2000, ISBN 3-88042-906-5
• Winfried Tonner : Pictures 1966–1986 , Regensburg-Grünstadt: Garamond, ISBN 3-922579-29-9
• Edvard Munch , Berlin: Henschelverlag Kunst u. society
• Ships and their fates: maritime event pictures , Rostock: Hinstorff, VEB
• Captain pictures. Ship portraits since 1782 . Rostock: VEB Hinstorff Verlag 1971, 2nd edition 1978

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the entry of Werner Timm's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

literature

• Lutz Mohr : Greifswald ships as "captain pictures". A special maritime art genre has almost disappeared today . In: The Pommersche Zeitung . Volume 64, episode 9 of March 1, 2014, p. 2, four ship portraits.