Walter Passarge (born May 23, 1898 in Erfurt; † July 30, 1958 in Mannheim) was a German art historian and Director of the Städtischen Kunsthalle Mannheim.
Career
editPassarge studied art history and received his doctorate in 1923 at the University of Leipzig under Wilhelm Pinder with a thesis on the German Vesper image in the Middle Ages. He initially worked as an art historian at the Museum in Erfurt from 1922 to 1925, then until 1927 as a lecturer at the State Art Academy in Kassel and until 1936 as assistant director at the Thaulow Museum and as a lecturer at the craft school in Kiel.[1] From July 1, 1936 until his death, he was director of the city art gallery in Mannheim (Städtischen Kunsthalle Mannheim). During his time at the Kunsthalle Mannheim there, he was mainly concerned with the second wave of Nazi confiscations in 1937 and their influence on the selection of the art on display.[2][3] He shifted the focus of the Mannheim Kunsthalle to the politically less sensitive arts and crafts. After the Second World War, it was up to him to rebuild the Kunsthalle, which had been greatly reduced by the effects of National Socialism and World War II, with a special focus on German and modern art as well as the collections of the 19th and 20th centuries.[4] He published widely on a wide variety of art-historical topics.
Literature
edit- Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub: Walter Passarge †. In: Mannheimer Hefte. 1958, 2, S. 38–39.
References
edit- ^ "Kalliope | Verbundkatalog für Archiv- und archivähnliche Bestände und nationales Nachweisinstrument für Nachlässe und Autographen". kalliope-verbund.info. Retrieved 2021-05-15.
- ^ "Systematische Erschließung der Sammlungsbestände des schleswig-holsteinischen Landesmuseums für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte (Erwerbungen 1933-1945) | Proveana". www.proveana.de. Retrieved 2021-05-15.
- ^ "Vortrag "Provenienzforschung – Raubkunst auf der Spur" am 6.05.2015 Eine Kooperation mit dem Arbeitskreis Justiz und Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-09-24.
Ab 1942 war Passarge als Kunstsachverständiger und Schätzer für die „Verwertungsstelle Volksfeindliches Vermögen VVV" tätig. Im Auftrag des Finanzamtes sonderte er Kunstgegenstände aus den in Holland beschlagnahmten Umzugskisten jüdischer Emigranten aus. Insgesamt sind 408 Güterzugwaggons mit geraubten Kisten von Rotterdam nach Mannheim zurückgeschickt worden.
- ^ "Interview mit Leiterin Ulrike Lorenz: 50-Millionen-Euro-Spende ermöglicht Erweiterungsbau der Kunsthalle Mannheim". www.handelsblatt.com (in German). Archived from the original on 2021-05-15. Retrieved 2021-05-15.
External links
edit- Literature by and about Walter Passarge in the German National Library catalogue
- Works by and about Walter Passarge in the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library)
- Provenance Research Kunsthalle Mannheim