Günther Grundmann

Günther Grundmann (10 April 1892 – 19 June 1976) was a German art historian, museum curator and monument preservator.

Born in Jelenia Góra, Krkonoše Mountains, Province of Silesia, after Abitur in his hometown in 1912, Grundmann studied art history at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich among others with Heinrich Wölfflin and Paul Frankl.

When war broke out in 1914, he first returned to Hirschberg and then continued his art history studies at the University of Breslau, which he completed in 1916 with a doctorate (Dr.

From 1919 to 1932, Grundmann was a teacher of art history at the Holzschnitzschule Bad Warmbrunn [de] and an honorary administrator of the "Hausfleißverein", an association for Silesian needlework.

[2] Towards the end of the Second World War, his tasks also included the confiscation and storage of art objects at risk from bombing from Berlin and Brandenburg.