Adolf Max Vogt

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Adolf Max Vogt (born June 16, 1920 in Zurich ; died January 24, 2013 there ) was a Swiss art historian , journalist , art and architecture critic .

Life

Vogt studied art history , classical archeology and German literature in Zurich, Lausanne and Glasgow and was a thesis on Matthias Grünewald doctorate . He began to write for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , where he worked for ten years. In 1961, he succeeded Linus Birchler as professor for the history of art and architecture at the architecture department at ETH Zurich , where he founded the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture in 1967 and taught until 1985.

He published various writings on architecture theory, including in 1980 with Ulrike Jehle-Schulte Strathaus and Bruno Reichlin Architecture 1940–1980: A critical inventory that made him known. In 1996 he received the Heinrich Wölfflin Medal from the City of Zurich.

Vogt was initially married to Ulya Vogt-Göknil , and since 1980 to Radka Donnell , together they published about Le Corbusier . His urn is buried in the Witikon cemetery in Zurich .

Fonts (selection)

  • Fonts. The dogs bark, the caravan moves on. gta, Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-85676-166-0 (= studies and texts on the history of architectural theory ).
  • Fifties. Debris, craters, hunger, guilt - what was art doing back then? Art critical essays from the years 1950-1960 published in the NZZ (art criticism in the NZZ 1950-1960, edited by Annemarie Monteil and Nedim Peter Vogt). Helbing and Lichtenhahn, Basel / Geneva / Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7190-2010-X .
  • Le Corbusier , the noble savage . Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1996, ISBN 978-3-528-08861-3 .
  • Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Glance into Greece's prime . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1985
  • with Ulrike Jehle-Schulte Strathaus and Bruno Reichlin: Architecture 1940–1980 . Propylaea, Frankfurt am Main, Vienna / Berlin 1980
  • Russian and French revolutionary architecture 1789/1917. On the influence of Marxism and Newtonism on the building method . DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1974.
  • 19th century , Belser Stilgeschichte , Volume 10, Belser, Stuttgart 1971.
  • Jakob Burckhardt . Birkhäuser, Basel 1968 (speech and lecture at the opening of the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, with Paul Hofer ).
  • The spherical structure around 1800 and today's architecture . Polygraphischer Verlag, Zurich 1962
  • Grünewald, Mathis Gothart Nithart: Master of counter-classical painting Artemis, Zurich / Stuttgart 1957.
  • Grünewald's depictions of the crucifixion . Bumpliz, Bern 1956 ( dissertation ).

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personal data
SURNAME Vogt, Adolf Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and art and architecture critic
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2013
Place of death Zurich