Wilhelm van Kempen
Wilhelm van Kempen (born May 31, 1894 in Süchteln ( Lower Rhine ), Kempen district , † July 24, 1981 in Göttingen ) was a German art historian and archivist .
Life
Kempen studied art history, archeology and history at the universities of Leipzig and Berlin . During the First World War he served as a soldier. In 1920 he received his doctorate in Marburg with a thesis on Cornelis Ryckwaert , the architect of the Oranienbaum Palace (published in 1924 in the Marburg Yearbook for Art History ).
From 1921 van Kempen worked for the Anhalt art warden and state curator and supported the expansion of the Zerbst palace into the Anhalt state museum . Numerous publications as a freelance art historian and lecturer were made at the Friedrichs-Polytechnikum in Köthen . In 1934 he moved to Göttingen, where he was in charge of the city archive until 1959.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm van Kempen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information on Wilhelm van Kempen from the Anhalt Regional Studies Association
Individual evidence
- ↑ Göttinger Jahrbuch 1981, p. 5.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kempen, Wilhelm van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Addicts |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 1981 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |