You are bidding on a typewritten Letter from the "Commission for the Monuments Statistics of the Rhine Province".

DatedBonn, 18. January 1912.

Written and signed by hand by the art historian and monument conservator Paul Clemen (1866-1947), Chairman of the Monument Council of the Rhine Province.

addressed to the art historian Christian Rauch (1877-1976), Privatdozent (and from 1920 professor) in Giessen, whom he would like to move to the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Bonn by promising him the title of professor. Its main tasks should be the inventory of art monuments. However, Clemen is unsure whether the University of Giessen will even let him go.

Ultimately, nothing came of the change; Smoke stayed in pouring.

Format: 4 pages (26.3 x 20.8 cm).

Written on strong paper; with printed letterhead.

Condition:Letter folded lengthways and crossways; Paper browned and stained. BiPlease also note the pictures!

Internal note: EVRS 2102-01

About Paul Clemen and Christian Rauch (source: wikipedia):

Paul Clemen (* 31. October 1866 in Sommerfeld near Leipzig; † 8th. July 1947 in Endorf) was a German art historian and monument curator, he was appointed the first provincial curator of the Rhine Province in 1893.

Life:Paul Clemen was the son of pastor Christian August Julius Clemen (1838–1920), his brothers were the theologian Carl Clemen and the historian Otto Clemen. He attended the Princely School in Grimma (1879–1885). [1] In 1885 he began studying art history and German philology at the University of Leipzig, which he continued in 1887 at the University of Bonn and from 1888 at the University of Strasbourg. In 1889, Clemen received a doctorate from the art historian Hubert Janitschek with a dissertation on the portraits of Charlemagne. phil. PhD. On the 1st In October 1890 he was commissioned and permanently employed by the Commission for Monument Statistics for the inventory of art monuments in the Rhine Province. In 1893 he was appointed the first provincial curator of the Rhine Province.

Paul Clemen taught as an art historian at the University of Bonn from 1894 until his retirement in 1936. In 1892 he had registered with Carl Justi for his habilitation at the University of Bonn for the subject of medium and modern art history, the habilitation thesis was waived for him in view of his list of publications. In the summer semester of 1894 he began lecturing at the University of Bonn as a private lecturer, and in 1898 he was appointed associate professor in the Philosophical Faculty. A year later he became a full professor of art history and literature at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. In 1902 he returned to Bonn, where he succeeded Carl Justi as professor of art history and founded the university's art history institute.

In 1901 Clemen accompanied Crown Prince Wilhelm to Belgium and the Netherlands. [2] After his matriculation in Bonn he became his teacher for two semesters. At the end of the year he was appointed full professor there by “most highly accomplished appointment”. At the same time, Clemen remained in the office of provincial curator. When he left in 1911, he took over the office of chairman of the newly founded Monument Council of the Rhine Province. In these functions he campaigned strongly for monument protection. [3] He was one of the initiators for the founding of the Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection and was elected chairman of the Day for Monument Preservation and Heritage Protection in 1924. [3] Clemen, co-founder of this institution and previously its long-term deputy chairman, held the office until 1932. His life's work, the art monuments of the Rhine Province in 56 volumes, is a standard work of German art history. In 1933 he established the concept of symbols for monuments as “symbols of national history” and “media for forming attitudes”. [4] [5] In 1935 he was retired. [2] He spent his twilight years in Endorf in Upper Bavaria. In June 1946 he returned one last time to the Rhineland, which had been badly hit by the bombing war. In the destroyed Quirinus Minster in Neuss, the reconstruction of which had begun, he gave a programmatic, moving speech on "Rhenish monuments and their fate - A call to the Rhinelander". [2] His address received such a strong response that it was published in lower case.

Family: In 1905 Paul Clemen married Lilli von Wätjen (1884–1966), daughter of the government councilor Hermann von Wätjen (1851–1911) and granddaughter of the shipowner Diedrich Heinrich Wätjen at the Altenrode manor. They had two children: Wolfgang Clemen (1909–1990) and Petra Clemen (1911–1986).

The Villa Clemen:In 1908/09, Paul Clemen had a villa built as a private residence near Bonn's banks of the Rhine (Coblenzer Straße 119a), which was built at the same time as the neighboring villa of Professor Karl Bülbring, based on a design by Bonn architect and government architect Julius Rolff. Stylistically, it can be attributed to the pictureque baroque. Since Clemen had illegally moved into the villa before the acceptance test in June 1909, the building authorities filed a criminal complaint against him. In 1934 Clemen had it converted into a three-family house (design: Rolffs).

During the Second World War, the building was destroyed in the course of the Allied bombing raids on Bonn in the most devastating air strike on May 18. Completely destroyed in October 1944. The archive materials, works of art and the almost 10,000 volumes of Clemens' library that were stored in the house could not be saved. The villa was not rebuilt, and the university children's clinic was later built on its property.

Honors

1918: Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Karlsruhe [7]

1926: Honorary member of the Düsseldorf Art Academy

1926: Honorary member of the Rhenish Association for the Preservation of Monuments and Heritage Protection

1929: Honorary member of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine

1941: Awarded the Goethe Medal for Art and Science

1942: Awarded the Joseph von Görres Prize

1946: Honorary citizen of the city of Bonn [8]

1946: Honorary member of the Düsseldorf artists' association "Malkasten"

1949: Name of Paul-Clemen-Straße in Bonn (near today's House of History) [9]

2013: Foundation of the Paul Clemen Museum in Bonn

The Paul Clemen Prize of the LVR

on the 31st In October 1936, Heinrich Haake (NSDAP), as governor of the Rhine Province (legal predecessor of the LVR), on the occasion of the 70. The Paul Clemen Scholarship (since 2008 Paul Clemen Prize) was awarded on the occasion of Paul Clemen's birthday. [10]

Fonts (selection)

as editor: The Art Monuments of the Rhine Province. (Series of publications in 56 volumes). Schwann, Düsseldorf from 1891.

with Adolph Goldschmidt, Ludwig Justi, Paul Schubring: The Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin. Seemann, Leipzig 1904 (digitized in the Internet Archive)

Art history exhibition Düsseldorf 1904. Publishing house of the exhibition management, Düsseldorf 1904 (digitized in the Internet Archive).

with Eduard Firmenich-Richartz (ed.): Masterpieces of West German painting and other excellent paintings by old masters from private collections at the Art History Exhibition in Düsseldorf 1904. Bruckmann, Munich 1905 (digitized in the Internet Archive).

with Cornelius Gurlitt: The monastery buildings of the Cistercians in Belgium. Architecture publisher “Der Zirkel”, Berlin 1916.

The state of the art monuments in the western theater of war. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916 (digitized in the Internet Archive).

The Romanesque monumental painting in the Rhineland. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1916 (digitized in the Internet Archive).

Art protection in war. Reports on the condition of the art monuments in the various theaters of war and on the German and Austrian measures for their preservation, rescue and research. 2 volumes. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1919 (digital copies of Volume 1 and Volume 2 in the Internet Archive).

Rhenish monuments and their fate. An appeal to the Rhinelander. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1946.

Gothic cathedrals in France - Paris, Chartres, Amiens, Reims. 2. edition. Atlantis Verlag, Zurich / Berlin 1937.

Christian Rauch (* 30. September 1877 in Berlin; † 31. January 1976 in Giessen) was a German art historian and university professor.

Life

Education:Rauch studied architecture at the Technical University of Charlottenburg and at the same time art history at the University of Berlin. During his studies in Berlin he was also a master class student at the Berlin Academy of the Arts, whose president at that time was his uncle, the architect Hermann Ende. In 1903 he received his doctorate in art history at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel. In 1906 he completed his habilitation at the University of Giessen under Bruno Sauer through the Nuremberg renaissance painter Wolf Traut. He then became a private lecturer in art history at the University of Giessen.

Excavations in Ingelheim: His participation in the inventory of the Rheinhessen art monuments stimulated Rauch to deal intensively with Carolingian art. This created the scientific prerequisites for exploring the imperial palace in Ingelheim. Between 1909 and 1914, Rauch led the first comprehensive and systematic archaeological excavation campaigns on their site, which were associated with extraordinary difficulties, but ultimately confirmed his theses regarding the architecture and importance of the building. They led to the production of a reconstruction model and two scientific publications written by Rauch. In recognition of the intensity and perseverance in researching Charlemagne's imperial palace, the city of Ingelheim awarded Rauch honorary citizenship in 1975.

Professorship in Giessen: During the First World War, he served as a nurse on the Western Front and was temporarily director of the museum in Douai in northern France. After the end of the war he returned to the University of Giessen, where he was appointed full professor of art history in 1920. Here Rauch set up the Art History Institute with the help of its own sponsoring company. Later, Rauch was dean of the Philosophical Faculty several times and temporarily represented the rector of the university as prorector (SS 1943 to WS 1944/45). In 1947 he retired. In addition to the lectures as well as the scientific and journalistic activities, many other activities in the areas of monument preservation and monument protection for the state of Hesse and for the city of Gießen were carried out: the publication of the art monuments in Bingen, tasks as a member of the permanent council for fine arts in Hesse , as a member of the Monument Council for Upper Hesse and as a member of the Historical Commission for Hesse, of which Rauch was one of the sponsors. After the Second World War he was one of those in Gießen who prevented the imposing half-timbered building of the old armory of Philip the Magnanimous at the New Palace from being demolished.

Rauch was the first lecturer at the Gießen Ludoviciana who limited himself to medium and modern art history. The subjects of his lectures were wide-ranging. Although the main emphasis was on architecture, he included Dutch painting and the main masters of German and Italian painting. His lectures were open to listeners from all faculties and were supplemented by excursions to art-historically interesting places in the vicinity. [2] [3] Otto Schmitt was one of his students.

awards

Honorary Senator of the University of Giessen

Honorary citizen of the city of Ingelheim am Rhein (1975)

Publications (selection)

The Trauts: Studies and Contributions to Nuremberg Painting, Heitz & Mündel, Strasbourg 1907

The art monuments of the Bingen district, Hessischer Staatsverlag, Darmstadt 1934

The history of the Ingelheim royal and imperial palatinate, Historical Association, Ingelheim 1960

The excavations in the Königspfalz Ingelheim 1909 - 1914, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz 1976