Frank Zöllner

Frank Zöllner (born June 26, 1956 in Bremen ) is a German art historian and university professor .

Life

Zöllner studied art history from 1977 to 1981; from 1983 to 1985 he was an Aby Warburg fellow in London at the Warburg Institute . After receiving his doctorate in 1987 at the University of Hamburg on the subject of "Vitruvius's proportional figure", Zöllner worked from 1988 to 1992 as a research assistant at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome . In 1995 he completed his habilitation at the University of Marburg with the topic "Expression and Movement in Leonardo da Vinci".

Zöllner has held a chair for medium and modern art history at the University of Leipzig since 1996 .

honors and awards

• Leipzig Science Prize of the Saxon Academy of Sciences (2009)
• 2013 member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences

Publications

• Vitruvius's proportional figure. Source-critical studies on art literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. Worms 1987.
• Leonardo da Vinci . Mona Lisa . The portrait of Lisa del Giocondo . Legend and history. Frankfurt 1994. (feat).
• La Battaglia di Anghiari di Leonardo da Vinci from Mitologia e politica. Lettura Vinciana 1997.
• Images of spring and love: Sandro Botticelli's mythological paintings . Munich / New York 1998.
• Leonardo da Vinci. Taschen, Cologne 1999. ISBN 3-8228-6363-7
• Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. Seen by Giorgio Vasari and Ascanio Condivi . Freiburg im Breisgau 2002. (Rombach Sciences, Sources for Art. 17.).
• Leonardo da Vinci. The Complete Paintings and Drawings. Cologne 2003.
• Paper palaces. Illustrated architectural theory from the 15th to 18th centuries. Catalog for the exhibition from March 16 to May 14, 2005 in the Albertina University Library. Leipzig 2005. (Writings from the university library. 9.)
• Sandro Botticelli. Munich 2005 [German] and New York 2005 [English].
• "Memory of Memory". The medieval furnishings of the Leipzig University Church St. Pauli , 2005 [editor].
• Leonardo's Mona Lisa. From portrait to icon of the free world (Wagenbach's paperback volume 552) . Wagenbach, Berlin 2006. ISBN 978-3-8031-2552-1
• Georg Wünschmann (1868-1937). A Leipzig architect and the plurality of styles , Leipzig 2006 [editor].
• Michelangelo - The complete work. (together with Christof Thoenes and Thomas Pöpper). Cologne 2007.
• Stylus art. Myth, dream and love in Max Klinger's graphic . Plöttner, Leipzig 2007. ISBN 978-3938442319
• Movement and expression in Leonardo da Vinci . (Marburg, Univ., Habil.-Schrift, 1995). Plöttner, Leipzig 2009. ISBN 978-3938442692
• Tübke Foundation Leipzig. Inventory catalog of drawings and watercolors . Plöttner Leipzig 2009. [Editor] ISBN 978-3938442739

Web links

• Literature by and about Frank Zöllner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Zöllner's homepage at the University of Leipzig with an overview of all publications; some of them are also linked as a freely available PDF document
• What the satyrs taught. In: Die Zeit No. 31, July 29, 2010.
• Understanding Neo Rauch: With a tight calf. In: Die Zeit No. 22, May 26, 2011.