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Schmidt - Theyer
The "Dictionary of German National Biography" is unique, complete and comprehensive with biographies of 60,000 people from the German-speaking world. It covers not only individuals from Germany but also from Austria, Switzerland and other countries where German is or used to be spoken. Coverage stretches all the way from the time of Charlemagne to the present day and includes lesser-known as well as world-famous Germans. In order to ensure that entries were as objective as possible, only individuals whose life and works have come to an end were included.
Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism
After a century of Rationalist scepticism and political upheaval, the nineteenth century awakened to a fierce battle between the forces of secularization and the crusaders of a Christian revival. From this battlefield arose an art movement that would become the torchbearer of a new religious art: Nazarenism. From its inception in the Lukasbund of 1809, this art was controversial. It nonetheless succeeded in becoming a lingua franca in religious circles throughout Europe, America, and the world at large. This is the first major study of the evolution, structure, and conceptual complexity of this archetypically nineteenth-century language of belief. The Nazarene quest for a modern religious id...
The Mediatization of the Artist
This book offers trans-historical and trans-national perspectives on the image of “the artist” as a public figure in the popular discourse and imagination. Since the rise of notions of artistic autonomy and the simultaneous demise of old systems of patronage from the late eighteenth century onwards, artists have increasingly found themselves confronted with the necessity of developing a public persona. In the same period, new audiences for art discovered their fascination for the life and work of the artist. The rise of new media such as the illustrated press, photography and film meant that the needs of both parties could easily be satisfied in both words and images. Thanks to these “new” media, the artist was transformed from a simple producer of works of art into a public figure. The aim of this volume is to reflect on this transformative process, and to study the specific role of the media themselves. Which visual media were deployed, to what effect, and with what kind of audiences in mind? How did the artist, critic, photographer and filmmaker interact in the creation of these representations of the artist’s image?
Was macht die Kunst?
Welche Vorstellungen und Assoziationen bündelt eine auf den ersten Blick einfach lesbare bildliche Allegorie der Republik Venedig aus dem 14. Jahrhundert? Wie versuchte man im 19. Jahrhundert in Preussen, Schülern mittels Bildern die Geschichte ihres Staates vor Augen zu führen? Inwiefern bestimmen die ästhetischen Qualitäten eines Gemäldes seinen Quellenwert mit? Wie authentisch sind die frühen Krimkriegsfotografien? Diesen und anderen Fragen gehen zehn Kunsthistorikerinnen und Kunsthistoriker im vorliegenden Tagungsband nach, dessen zeitlicher Rahmen vom 14. bis ins 21. Jahrhundert reicht. Ihre Beiträge eröffnen Einblicke in das breite Spektrum aktueller Fragestellungen, Themen und Methoden der kunstgeschichtlichen Forschung und zeigen unterschiedliche Schnittstellen von Kunst-, Bild- und Geschichtswissenschaft auf. Dabei wird einmal mehr deutlich, dass sich sowohl die Produktion von Kunst und Bildern als auch deren Analyse nur unter Berücksichtigung ihrer jeweiligen Historizität begreifen lassen.
A History of Art History
"In this authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history. Synthesizing and assessing a vast array of writings, episodes, and personalities, this original and accessible account of the development of art-historical thinking will appeal to readers both inside and outside the discipline. The book shows that the pioneering chroniclers of the Italian Renaissance--Lorenzo Ghiberti and Giorgio Vasari--measured every epoch against fixed standards of quality. Only in the Romantic era did art historians discover the virtues of medieval ...
The Oxford History of Modern German Theology, Volume 1: 1781-1848
From the closing decades of the eighteenth century, German theology has been a major intellectual force within modern western thought, closely connected to important developments in idealism, romanticism, historicism, phenomenology, and hermeneutics. Despite its influential legacy, however, no recent attempts have sought to offer an overview of its history and development. Oxford History of Modern German Theology, Vol. I: 1781-1848, the first of a three-volume series, provides the most comprehensive multi-authored overview of German theology from the period from 1781-1848. Kaplan and Vander Schel cover categories frequently omitted from earlier overviews of the time period, such as the place...
Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction
Autobiographical writings have been a major cultural genre from antiquity to the present time. General questions of the literary as, e.g., the relation between literature and reality, truth and fiction, the dependency of author, narrator, and figure, or issues of individual and cultural styles etc., can be studied preeminently in the autobiographical genre. Yet, the tradition of life-writing has, in the course of literary history, developed manifold types and forms. Especially in the globalized age, where the media and other technological / cultural factors contribute to a rapid transformation of lifestyles, autobiographical writing has maintained, even enhanced, its popularity and importanc...
Vor den Gemälden
Zu den besonderen Schätzen der Göttinger Universitätskunstsammlung gehören 129 Zeichnungen auf 92 Blatt sowie drei Skizzenbücher von Eduard Bendemann (1811-1889). Kulturell vielseitig vernetzt, war dieser Künstler einer der bedeutendsten Vertreter der Düsseldorfer Malerschule und sorgte gerade in den 1830er und 40er Jahren mit seinen Gemälden europaweit für großes Aufsehen. Der umfangreiche Göttinger Bendemann-Bestand wird hier erstmals vollständig in einem Katalog vorgestellt, der zugleich als Begleitband zu einer Ausstellung dieser Werke fungiert. Einen Großteil der hier präsentierten Zeichnungen schuf Bendemann als vorbereitende Studien zu komplexen Historienbildern. Vor den Gemälden: Eduard Bendemann zeichnet unter diesem Motto gewähren Katalog und Ausstellung Einblicke in die faszinierende Welt akademischer Komponierpraxis des 19. Jahrhunderts und führen zugleich in deren historische und (kunst-)politische Grundlagen ein. Sie widmen sich einer Zeit, die von fundamentalen Umbrüchen, aber auch einem nahezu unerschütterlichen Vertrauen in die Wirkung von Kunst geprägt wurde.
Historical Memory in Greece, 1821–1930
This book presents a social and cultural history of collective memory in modern Greece during the first century of state independence, contributing to the debate over the relationship between memory and identity. It discusses how modern Greek society commemorated its distant and recent pasts, both real and imagined, namely antiquity, Byzantium, the Greek Revolution and the Asia Minor Catastrophe; how cultural memory was shaped by the various war experiences (victory, defeat, mass death and mourning, refugeedom); and how memory politics became arenas of social and political strife. Historical painting, monuments, historical pageantry, tableaux vivants, national anniversaries, performances of ...
German Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350-1600
Paintings by Renaissance masters Lucas Cranach the Elder, Albrecht Durer, and Hans Holbein the Younger are among the works featured in this lavish volume, the first to comprehensively study the largest collection of early German paintings in America. These works, created in the 14th through 16th centuries in the region that comprises present-day Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, include religious images - such as "Virgin and Child with Saint Anne" by Durer and the double-sided altarpiece "The Dormition of the Virgin" by Hans Schaufelein - as well as remarkable portraits by Holbein and the iconic "Judgment of Paris" by Cranach. In all, more than 70 works are thoroughly discussed and analyzed, making this volume an incomparable resource for the study of this rich artistic period.
