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Wolfgang Hütt
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Wolfgang Hütt (18 August 1925 – 14 January 2019) was a German art historian.
Born in Barmen, Hütt grew up in a working-class district of Barmen. He completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, then was drafted for military service. After the Second World War, he helped his parents work on a farm near Leipzig, where the family had been evacuated after a heavy Air Raids on Wuppertal. In 1948, the parents returned to their hometown.
At the same time, Hütt took up work as a journalist in Halle (Saale). He studied art history, German studies and architecture at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1946. From 1953 to 1957, he was an aspirant and lecturer at the Institute of Art History there and received his doctorate. From 1957 to 1959, Hütt took on a teaching position. During these years, he worked on his first work, Wir und die Kunst (We and Art), a popularly written introduction to the study of art and art history, which was published in 1959, and of which several greatly revised and expanded editions were published until 1988.
Numerous dogmatic objections from critics loyal to the line were directed against the publication. As early as 1956, the Ministry for State Security (MfS), Halle district administration, opened an "Operativer Vorgang" because of "softening up and decomposition activity within the University of Halle". Therefore, Hütt followed the call of the rector, Professor Johannes Jahn, to the Institute for Art History at the University of Leipzig and continued his academic work there as a senior assistant from 1959 to 1961. But even in Leipzig, the observation by the MfS, Leipzig district administration, continued and culminated in the suspicion of organising an "anti-state group formation".
Because of his art-theoretical views - which the leadership of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as "revisionist" - he was increasingly defamed by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) increasingly defamed him.
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