Felix Thürlemann

Felix Thürlemann (born August 18, 1946 in St. Gallen ) is a Swiss art historian and until his retirement was Professor of Art Studies at the University of Konstanz .

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Felix Thürlemann studied French language and literature as well as Latin and Middle Latin literature at the Universities of Zurich and Besançon as well as at the Paris École pratique des hautes études . In 1973 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Gregory of Tours . This was followed by postgraduate studies in semiotics and art history at the Paris École pratique des Hautes Études. There he worked with Algirdas Julien Greimas on a general semiotic narrative theory. This research has had a lasting impact on his image-theoretical approach.

After two years of teaching at high schools in Zurich, he was assistant for French literature at the University of Zurich from 1978 to 1981 . In 1979 he was with an artistic scientific and semiotic work Paul Klee at the University of Paris Sorbonne doctorate. From 1981 to 1984 research stays in New York (Institute of Fine Arts) and Rome ( Swiss Institute ) followed. In 1985 he completed his habilitation in art history at the University of Zurich with a thesis on Kandinsky . After teaching positions at the Universities of Geneva , Zurich and Basel , he accepted a professorship for art history / art history at the University of Konstanz, where he taught from 1987 to 2014.

Felix Thürlemann has worked and published on a wide range of art historical objects. His main research interests are in the field of visual semiotics as an analysis of the meaning of the fine arts, early Dutch painting, the history of visual media ( map , photography ), diagrammatics and the theory and history of hyperimage .

On the occasion of Felix Thürlemann's 65th birthday, the pendant Plus was published. Practices of image combinations that take up Thürlemann's concept of hyperimage in order to further develop it in various disciplinary perspectives.

Felix Thürlemann lives in Zurich, is married to the cultural journalist Barbara Basting and has two children.

Publications (books)

• The historical discourse with Gregory of Tours . Topoi and Reality , Peter Lang, Bern 1974. ISBN 3-261-01328-1
• Paul Klee. Analysis sémiotique de trois peintures , Éditions l'Age d'Homme, Lausanne 1982.
• Kandinsky on Kandinsky. The artist as an interpreter of his own works , Benteli, Bern 1986. ISBN 3-85918-054-1
• Mantegna's Lamentation in Milan. The constitution of the viewer through the picture , UVK, Konstanz 1989. ISBN 3-87940-360-0
• From image to space. Contributions to a semiotic art history , DuMont, Cologne 1990. ISBN 3-7701-2361-1
• Robert Campin : The Mérode Triptych. A wedding picture for Peter Engelbrecht and Gretchen Schrinmechers from Cologne , Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997. ISBN 3-596-12418-2
• (Ed. with Monika Küble): Francesco Borromini , Opus Architectonicum. Narrated and illustrated architecture , Sulgen / Zurich 1999. ISBN 978-3-7212-0376-9
• (Ed. with Christiane Kruse ): Portrait - Landscape - Interior. Jan van Eyck's Rolin-Madonna in an aesthetic context , Narr, Tübingen 1999. ISBN 3-8233-5703-4
• (Ed. with Gerhart von Graevenitz and Stefan Rieger ): The inevitability of pictures , Narr, Tübingen 2001. ISBN 3-8233-5706-9
• Robert Campin. A monograph with a catalog of works . Prestel, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7913-2807-7
  • English edition: Robert Campin. A Monograph with Critical Catalog , Prestel, Munich, New York 2002. ISBN 978-3-7913-2778-5
• Rogier van der Weyden . Life and Work , CH Beck, Munich 2002. ISBN 978-3-406-53592-5
• Dürer's double look , UVK, Konstanz 2008. ISBN 978-3-87940-816-0
• (with Steffen Bogen ): Rome. A city in maps from antiquity to today , Primus, Darmstadt 2009. ISBN 978-3-89678-661-6
• (Ed. with David Ganz ): The picture in the plural. Multi-part image forms between the Middle Ages and the present , Reimer, Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-496-01426-3
• (with Bernd Stiegler ): Masterpieces of Photography , Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag, Stuttgart 2011. ISBN 978-3-15-018763-0
• (Ed. with Bernd Stiegler): Light painter. Art photography around 1900 , Arnold, Stuttgart 2011. ISBN 978-3-89790-026-4
• (Ed. with Bernd Stiegler): The subjective image. Texts on art photography around 1900 , Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-7705-5232-0
• More than a picture. For an art history of the 'hyperimage' , Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2014. ISBN 978-3-7705-5606-9
• (Ed. with Michael Hagner and Bernd Stiegler): Charles Nègre. Self-portrait in Hexenspiegel , Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn 2014. ISBN 978-3-7705-5716-5
• (Ed. with Bernd Stiegler): Orientbilder. Photographs 1850–1910 , weissbooks, Frankfurt am Main 2015. ISBN 978-3-86337-037-4
• The harem window. On the photographic conquest of Egypt in the 19th century , Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn 2016. ISBN 978-3-7705-6047-9
• (as ed.): Venice - Florence - Naples. A photographic travel album, 1877 , weissbooks, Frankfurt am Main 2017. ISBN 978-3-86337-116-6

literature

• Interview Klaus Sachs-Hombach with Felix Thürlemann: The images in the context of their presentation , in: K. Sachs-Hombach, Paths to Image Science. Interviews , Cologne 2004, pp. 200–215
• Wolfgang Brassat , Hubertus Kohlen (Ed.), Method Reader Art History. Texts on the methodology and history of art history , Cologne 2003, pp. 148–164 ( The semiotic art history. Felix Thürlemann: Nicolas Poussin "The Mannalese" )

Web links

• Publications by and about Felix Thürlemann in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Information about Thürlemann on the website of the University of Konstanz
• Selection of scientific papers

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.reimer-mann-verlag.de/controller.php?suche=pendant+plus&suchesubmit.x=0&suchesubmit.y=0&cmd=schnellsuche&verlag=3