Wolfgang Scheffler (art historian)

Wolfgang Scheffler (born January 25, 1902 in Braunschweig , † September 29, 1992 in Berlin ) was a German art historian .

life and work

Wolfgang Scheffler was the son of Professor Ludwig Scheffler (1866–1935) and his wife Margarete geb. Mitlacher (1868–1957). The high school graduate of the Braunschweiger Wilhelm-Gymnasium studied art history, classical archeology, German studies and history at the universities of Berlin , Munich and Göttingen . In 1925 he received his doctorate in Göttingen.

From 1927 to 1939 he was a research assistant at the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum in Kiel, where he was mainly involved in the inventory of Schleswig-Holstein's art monuments. In 1941 he became director of the Lower Silesian City Museum in Liegnitz . In 1942 he cataloged the art possessions of the writer Gerhart Hauptmann . After military service and imprisonment, he initially worked in his hometown, u. a. at the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum . From 1952 to 1957 he worked at the Kunstgutlager Schloss Celle . Until his retirement in 1967 he was employed as curator or chief curator at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin .

He also devoted himself to genealogy and researched Braunschweig goldsmith families from the 17th to the 19th centuries.

Fonts (selection)

• The Gothic sculpture of the city of Braunschweig and its position in the Lower Saxony art circle. Dissertation Göttingen 1925.
• with Heinrich Brauer , Hans Weber: The art monuments of the province of Schleswig-Holstein
  • Volume 1: The art monuments of the Husum district . German Art Publishing House, Berlin 1939.
  • Volume 2: The art monuments of the Pinneberg district . German Art Publishing House, Berlin 1939.
  • Volume 3: The art monuments of the district of Südtondern . German Art Publishing House, Berlin 1939.
• Lower Saxon art of the Middle Ages in Braunschweig. 1949.
• Lower Saxony goldsmiths, dates, works, signs. 2 volumes, Berlin 1965;
  • Vol. 1 partly online via Google books
• Berlin goldsmiths. Dates, works, signs . Berlin 1968.
• Goldsmiths in Rhineland-Westphalia. Dates, works, signs. Berlin 1973.
• Goldsmiths in Hessen; Dates, works, signs. Berlin 1976.
• Goldsmiths on the Rhine and Neckar. Dates, works, signs. Verlag Kunst und Antiquitäten, Hanover 1977 ( digitized version ).
• Goldsmiths in Central and Northeast Germany: from Wernigerode to Lauenburg in Pomerania; Dates, works, signs. Berlin 1980.
• Goldsmiths of the Ostallgäu. Dates, works, signs. Hanover 1981.
• Goldsmiths of East Prussia. Dates, works, signs. Berlin 1983.
• Goldsmiths in Upper Franconia. Dates, works, signs. Berlin 1989.

literature

• Manfred RW Garzmann : Dr. Wolfgang Scheffler (1902–1992) in memory. In: The same (ed. On behalf of the city of Braunschweig): Quaestiones Brunsvicenses. Reports from the Braunschweig city archive. Issue 5. Braunschweig 1993, pp. 17-29.

Web links

• Literature by Wolfgang Scheffler on worldcat.org
• Literature by Wolfgang Scheffler in the catalog of the German National Library