Wulf Schadendorf

Wulf Schadendorf (born November 28, 1926 in Dresden , † August 1, 1985 in Lübeck ) was a German art historian and museum director.

Wulf Schadendorf (Photo: around 1952)

Life

Schadendorf came from a family originally from Holstein. He grew up in Grossenhain , Meißen and Dresden. His youth fell during the Second World War , when he was an air force helper and did labor and military service. He was only able to do his Abitur after the end of the war. He studied art history, history, German and archeology at the University of Halle , where Wilhelm Worringer became his teacher. In 1950 he went to the West at the University of Göttingen and received his doctorate there in 1953 with a dissertation on the work of Conrad von Einbeck , supervised by Heinz Rudolf Rosemann .

From 1954 to 1957 he was a volunteer at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg , from 1957 to 1960 museum assistant at the Museum of Art and Industry in Hamburg and from 1960 to 1962 research assistant at the Herder Institute in Marburg . In 1962 he got a permanent job at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, where he built up the departments for the 19th and 20th centuries. From 1967 he worked on the establishment of the Art Education Center, of which he became the first director in 1969.

On September 1, 1974, he was appointed director of the Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck as the successor to Fritz Schmalenbach . During his term of office, the reorganization of the permanent exhibition in the Behnhaus , the establishment of the graphic collection, the creation of the museum educational service and the establishment of the Drägerhaus museum in 1981 with a focus on the 19th century and testimonies to the life and work of the brothers Heinrich and Thomas Mann , which later became in 1993 formed the basis of the Heinrich and Thomas Mann Center in the Buddenbrookhaus . He had already developed the basic concept in 1975 in the highly regarded exhibition Lübeck at the time of the Buddenbrooks .

Schadendorf expanded the collection with contemporary art and initiated the discussion about suitable rooms for the 20th century collection, the late result of which in 2004 was the establishment of the St. Annen art gallery . He was a member of the board of directors of the Lübeck Overbeck Society and from March 1983 chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein Museum Working Group .

He died at age 58 on a cancer . His successor was Gerhard Gerkens . His estate is in the German Art Archive in Nuremberg.

Publications

• Conrad von Einbeck. Architecture and sculpture of the Moritzkirche in Halle. Dissertation . Göttingen 1953.
• Town hall of Göttingen. (= Small art guide for Lower Saxony . 1). Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1953.
• Göttingen churches. (= Small art guide for Lower Saxony. 2). Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1953.
• Hanoverian churches. (= Small art guide for Lower Saxony. 8). Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1954.
• The market church in Hanover. (= Small art guide for Lower Saxony. 7). Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1954.
• The Fagus factory Karl Benscheidt Alfeld / Leine. (= Small art guide for Lower Saxony. 5). Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1954.
• St. Cyriakus zu Duderstadt. (= Small art guide for Lower Saxony. 13). Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1955.
• The Bernward door in Hildesheim. (= Piper library. 91). 4th edition. Piper, 1988, ISBN 3-492-10611-0 .
• The Moritz Church in Halle . (= The Christian monument. 43). 2nd Edition. Union, Berlin 1965.
• On horseback, in a carriage, on foot. Prestel, Munich 1959.
• with Günther Grundmann : Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1962.
• The century of the railroad. Munich, Prestel 1965.
• Cathedrals, churches and monasteries in the province of Saxony and in Anhalt. (= Cathedrals, churches and monasteries. 19). Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1966.
• The museum and its audience. Art education center in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg 1974.
• as editor: Contributions to the reception of art in the 19th and 20th centuries. (Studies in the Art of the Nineteenth Century 29). Prestel, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7913-0104-7 .
• Behnhaus Museum . The house and its rooms. Painting, sculpture, handicrafts. (= Lübeck museum catalogs. 3). 2nd, expanded and changed edition. Museum for Art a. Cultural history d. Hanseatic City, Lübeck 1976.
• The Holsten Gate: symbol of the city. Shape, history and origin of the Lübeck Gate. Weiland, Lübeck [1977].
• Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. Georg Schäfer Collection, Schweinfurt 1978.
• On the work of the Kiel painter Friedrich Missfeldt . Society for Kiel City History, Kiel 1980.
• as publisher: Life and work in Herrenwyk: History of the blast furnace factory Lübeck AG, the factory colony and its people. Schmidt-Römhild , Lübeck 1985, ISBN 3-7950-0101-3 .
• The Holsten Gate to Lübeck. (= Major architectural monuments. 377). 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunst-Verlag, Munich / Berlin 1991.

and numerous exhibition catalogs on, among others, Alen Müller-Hellwig , Stanisław Fijałkowski , Hildegard Osten , Hanna Jäger , Anna Dräger-Mühlenpfordt .

literature

• Jens Christian Jensen : Wulf Schadendorf 1926–1985. In: Nordelbingen . 55, 1986, pp. 7-10. (with portrait photo of Fritz Kempe and list of publications p. 11–19)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry , central database of bequests