Wolfgang Schulz (art historian)

Wolfgang Schulz (born September 28, 1943 in Georgenswalde , East Prussia , † June 28, 2015 in Berlin ) was a German art historian.

Life

The Second World War brought the Schulz family to Berlin. Wolfgang Schulz studied art history , German , theater studies and library studies at the Free University and the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . He was particularly interested in Dutch art history. The doctorate took place through the Rembrandt student Lambert Doomer . Several standard works on Dutch art come from Schulz. After various other tasks, he headed the Deutschlandhaus (Berlin-Kreuzberg) from 1980 to 1999 , an institution for the care and communication of East German culture with events, publications and exhibitions. He belonged to the Esslingen artists' guild . In the last 10 years of his life he was its federal chairman. He was a research assistant at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , the Mauritshuis in The Hague and director of the Ostdeutsche Galerie art forum . He dealt intensively with Aert van der Neer . He wrote over 750 publications, monographs , exhibition catalogs and reviews . He was reminiscent of great East Prussians such as Immanuel Kant , Rudolf Siemering , Lovis Corinth , Ernst Wiechert and Otto Nicolai . He paid tribute to the Russian writer Yuriy N. Ivanov , who traveled through the Federal Republic and gave the Königsbergers information about their city, which was closed until 1991, for the first time. Schulz headed the Königsberg / East Prussia group in Berlin for many years. He left some of the exhibits to the Museum Stadt Königsberg , most recently a little hymn book, hardly larger than a matchbox from the 18th century.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Culture portal west-east
2. ↑ Lorenz Grimoni : The city community of Königsberg mourns the loss of its long-term city representative Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz . Königsberger Bürgerbrief, No. 86 (2015), p. 58.