Wolfgang Sörrensen

Wolfgang Sörrensen (born May 14, 1882 in Braunschweig , † January 31, 1965 in Berlin ) was a German art historian .

life and work

Wolfgang Sörrensen was born as the son of the government architect Sörrensen in Braunschweig and grew up there. From 1903 to 1905 he studied history, German literature and art history in Göttingen , Hamburg and Kiel , among others with Robert Vischer . In 1908 he received his doctorate in Kiel on Johann Heinrich Tischbein . From 1909 to 1914 he was a volunteer at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin with Wilhelm von Bode . During the First World War he did military service between 1915 and 1918.

From 1924 to 1933 he was curator and professor at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts in Berlin. In 1934 he was transferred to the library of the State Museums for political reasons, where he stayed until 1942.

In 1935 he bought a plot of land in Berlin-Steglitz, Arno-Holz-Straße 12, where he built a villa from Wilhelm Büning and a garden from Heinrich Wiepking-Jürgensmann . According to his own statements, he did voluntary military service in military education from 1942 to 1946 (sic!). From 1947 to 1964 various teaching assignments followed in Berlin, especially on the history of garden art . With his knowledge of garden history, he had a significant impact on Margarete Kühn and Dieter Hennebo .

His scientific estate is in the horticultural library of the university library of the TU Berlin .

Fonts (selection)

• Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein. His life and his art. Spemann, Berlin 1910.
• Necessary art. Address for the opening of the 3rd atelier class and workshop exhibition on March 6, 1930. Berlin 1930.
• Gardens and plants in the monastery plan. In: Johannes Duft (Ed.): Studies on the St. Gallen monastery plan . St. Gallen 1962 (= communications on patriotic history. Volume 42), pp. 193–277.

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• Library of the German Horticultural Association, Berlin, archive