Magdalene Rudolph

Magdalene Rudolph, also known as Magdalene Kunze (1901–1992) was a German art historian and from 1937 until 1945 served as provisional Director of the Angermuseum in the German city of Erfurt.

Career Rudolph was born in 1901. She studied art history in Munich, where she completed her doctorate in 1930 with a dissertation on Erfurt's 15th century stone sculpture (Die Erfurter Steinplastik des 15. Jahrhunderts).

From 1934 onwards she was working for the Angermuseum (then known as the Städtische Museum or Municipal Museum) and during second world war became its provisional director, following Herbert Kunze, who had been removed from office by the local Nazi authorities.

Preservation of the Heckelraum Magdalene Rudolph is most notable for preserving the so-called "Heckelraum" of Angermuseum. After the war, Herbert Kunze was reinstalled as director of the museum. The couple continued their work for the museum together, successfully curating numerous exhibitions, until in 1963, Herbert Kunze was again made to resign from his post for political reasons.

Magdalene Rudolph continued to work for the museum until her retirement in 1971.

She died in 1992.

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