Georg Treu

Georg Treu (born 17 Märzjul / 29 March 1843greg in Saint Petersburg, .. † October 5, 1921 in Dresden ) was a classical archaeologist and director of the sculpture collection in the Dresden Albertinum.

Life

Trust studied theology in Dorpat in 1861 and Archaeology in Berlin. He was from 1866 a research assistant in the antiquities collection of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and received his PhD in 1874 in Göttingen. He then worked as a lecturer at the University of Berlin and was Direktorialassistent at the Royal Museums of Berlin.

During the German excavations of classical sites in Olympia 1875-1881 Georg Treu was temporarily entrusted with the management. From 1882 to 1915 he took over as the successor of Hettner the management of the Sculpture Collection of the Albertinum, in the former Dresdner armory. In this role, he expanded the existing collection by buying Greek original sculptures and antique shows, and completed this documentation by, for example, ancient vases and terracottas. With the dissolution of the Electoral Kunstkammer, he integrated the Renaissance and Baroque sculptures. Through close contact with contemporary artists such as Auguste Rodin, Constantin Meunier and Max Klinger, from whom he acquired several sculptures, he supplemented the collection with examples of modernism and created a new focus of the collection of colored plastics with examples from ancient and modern. In 1891 he opened the collection of casts, which served as a model for the establishment of the Moscow Pushkin Museum by Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetayev. In 1894 he set up the " collection of original works of art ", which included antique originals, complemented by contemporary works. Around 1900 was the litter collection as unique documentation of the history of sculpture.

Trust worked from 1882 to 1909 as a professor of art history at the Polytechnic School in Dresden, where he was also head of the collection for older art history. At the same time he worked as a professor at the Art Academy in Dresden. Georg Treu 1906 received an honorary doctorate from the University of Aberdeen in the UK. In 1913 he was made an honorary Doctor of TH Dresden.

Trust died in 1921 in Dresden. His grave in St. John's Cemetery is decorated with a relief of the sculptor Robert Diez. The previously unnamed space between two of its most important places - Albertinum and Art Academy building - was named Georg- Treu-Platz in his honor.

Papers

  • Greek pottery in statuettes and bust form, 1875
  • Hermes with Dionysus boys, 1878
  • The sculptures of Olympia in stone and clay, 1894
  • Max Klinger as a sculptor. In: Pan 5 Issue 1, 1899/1900, pp. 27-35. ( As a special edition appeared in Leipzig / Berlin, 1900. )
  • Klinger's drama group. In: Journal of Fine Arts. NF 16, 1905, pp. 1-8.
  • Hellenic moods in sculpture, 1910
  • Bronze bust of William Wundt Max Klinger in the sculpture collection in Dresden. In: Reports from the Saxon art collections. 2, 1911, pp. 100ff.
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