Hans Holländer

Hans Dutch (* 6. February 1932 in Hamburg , † 28. April 2017 in Berlin ) was a German art historian with a focus on the Middle Ages , the early modern and modern as well as the history of chess .

Life

Holländer received his doctorate in 1959 from the University of Tübingen with the work The Romanesque Tympanum . From 1971 until his retirement in 1997 he held the chair for art history at RWTH Aachen University . inside. There he was director of the Reiff Museum Collection from 1971 to March 31, 1997 . After his retirement he moved to Berlin, where he researched, among other things, the oldest Berlin chess club (“ Schadows Schachklub”) (art library exhibition, Berlin 2003, supervised by his wife Barbara Holländer).

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In his numerous publications, Holländer dealt with artists such as Hieronymus Bosch , Francisco de Goya , A. Paul Weber , Paul Wunderlich and Rudolf Hausner . As a passionate chess player, he published numerous works on the history of the game of chess and chess in art.

Fonts

Monographs (selection)

• The Romanesque tympanum , unprinted dissertation Tübingen 1959
• Mario Persico: combinatorial arts , Stuttgart: Edition Galerie Senatore 1968
• Art of the early Middle Ages , Belser Stilgeschichte , Stuttgart: Belser 1969
  • English translation Early Medieval Art , London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1974
• Hieronymus Bosch. Weltbilder und Traumwerk , Cologne: Du Mont 1975, 1988
• Rudolf Hausner: Work monograph , Offenbach, Edition Huber 1985
• Minotaur in the kinetic labyrinth: on chess and art on the occasion of the chess pieces by Paul Wunderlich , Offenbach: Edition Huber 1989
• The disparates and the giants: Goya's "Phantasiestücke" , Tübingen 1995
• Chess and ciphers : Perleberg: Hochroth 2010
• Mazes. The work of Paul Wunderlich , Offenbach am Main: Edition Huber 2011

As editor (selection)

• with Christian W. Thomsen: Moment and Time: Studies on Time Structure and Time Metaphor in Art and Sciences , Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1984
• with Christian W. Thomsen: Visiting modernism: visual arts, architecture, music, literature, religion; Aspects and Perspectives , Cologne: Du Mont 1987
• with Christiane Zangs: "With luck and understanding": on the art and cultural history of board and card games 15.-17. Century , exhibition catalog, Museum Schloß Rheydt 1994, Aachen: Thouet 1994
• with Wilfried Seipel : Spielwelten der Kunst - Kunstkammerspiel , exhibition catalog, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna 1998, Milan: Skira 1998
• Knowledge, invention, construction: Studies on the visual history of natural sciences and technology from the 16th to the 19th century , Berlin, Gebr. Mann 2000
• with Wilhelm Hornbostel: Chess games through times and worlds , exhibition catalog for the 175th birthday of the Hamburg chess club, Museum for Art and Commerce Hamburg 2005, Heidelberg: Braus 2005
• with Petra Rösgen: Ticket to Ride: Chess, Society, Politics , Exhibition Catalog, House of History, Bonn 2006

Articles (selection)

• Alexander: Hubris and curiosity. In: Willi Erzgräber (Ed.): Continuity and transformation of antiquity in the Middle Ages. Publication of the congress files for the Freiburg Symposium of the Medievalist Association. Sigmaringen 1989, pp. 65-79
• A game from the east. In: Odilo Engels, Peter Schreiner (Ed.): The encounter of the West with the East. Congress files of the 4th symposium of the Medievalist Association in Cologne 1991 on the occasion of the 1000th year of death of Empress Theophanu, Sigmaringen 1993, pp. 389-416
• "Planks that mean the world". The game of chess in the early modern era: structures, images and figures. In: Hans Holländer, Christiane Zangs (ed.): "With luck and understanding": on the art and cultural history of board and card games 15.-17. Century , exhibition catalog, Museum Schloß Rheydt 1994, Aachen: Thouet 1994 pp. 21–30
• "Memories of the world or so-called Relationes Curiosae": about art and curiosity chambers. In: Karin Orchard, Jörg Zimmermann (Hrsg.): The invention of nature. Max Ernst, Paul Klee, Wols a. the surreal universe. Exhibition catalog Hanover 1994 (including), Freiburg: Rombach 1994, pp. 34–45.
• Fortuna's ball. In: The Middle Ages: Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung Vol. 1, 1 (1996), pp. 149–167
• Memoria and Representation in the Early Modern Era. In: Mario Kramp (Ed.): Coronations. Kings in Aachen, history and myth. Catalog of the exhibition Aachen 2000, two volumes, volume 2, von Zabern, Mainz 2000, pp. 583–591.
• Places, spaces and the mobility of the eye. In: Karl-Siegbert Rehberg (edit.): Mobility, Space, Culture: Change of Experience from the Middle Ages to the Present , Dresden: Thelem 2005, pp. 23–36
• Cyclops, elephants and rooks in the game of chess. In: Johann Konrad Eberlein (ed.): Festschrift for Götz Pochat for his 65th birthday. Vienna, Berlin, Münster: LIT 2007, pp. 71–79
• Chess pieces in the Bode Museum. In: Tobias Kunz (Ed.): "Not the library, but the eye": Western European sculpture and painting at the turn of the modern age , contributions in honor of Hartmut Krohm (files from the colloquium of November 11th / 12th, 2005 to the Staatliche Museums zu Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin), Petersberg: Imhof 2008, pp. 15–21

literature

• Heinz Herbert Mann and Peter Gerlach (editors) Rule and exception: Festschrift for Hans Holländer , Aachen, Thouet 1994
• Capriccios in architecture, architectural sculptures and drawings by Elmar Hillebrand , with contributions by Hans van der Grinten , Hans Holländer, Cologne, 2008, ISBN 978-3-9810490-1-5

Web links

• Publications by Hans Holländer in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans Holländer obituary notice. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. May 6, 2017. Retrieved May 8, 2017.
2. ^ Professor Hans Holländer farewell with fireworks , in: Aachener Zeitung of July 1, 1997
3. ^ Reiff Museum
4. ^ Exhibition Schadows Schachclub, Lasker Gesellschaft ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )