Adrian von Buttlar

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Adrian von Buttlar (born September 12, 1948 in Marburg ) is a German art historian .

Life

Adrian von Buttlar studied art history, archeology and sociology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London from 1968 to 1976 . He received his doctorate in 1977 with a thesis on the English country estate in the 18th century , the habilitation took place in 1984 on Leo von Klenze's architecture in the field of tension between classicism and historicism. After working at the universities in Munich, Trier and Augsburg, he was professor for art history at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel from 1995 to 2001 and held the chair for modern art history at the Technical University of Berlin from 2001 to 2013 . From 2005 to 2012 he was dean of Faculty I - Humanities and visiting professorships in Taipei / Taiwan (2009) and St. Petersburg (2016).

Between 1996 and 2009 von Buttlar was chairman of the Berlin State Monument Council , 2001-2008 he was chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg , 2008-2013 he was chairman of the board of trustees of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. Since 2011 he has been a scientific adviser to the monument program of the Wüstenrot Foundation Ludwigsburg. Buttlar researches and publishes mainly on the history of garden art and the architectural history of the modern age ( classicism , historicism and modernity ) as well as on theory, politics and history of monument preservation . In an open letter to Archbishop Heiner Koch he spoke out against the redesign of the St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin and advocated the preservation of the church interior designed by Hans Schwippert with Anton Wendling (window).

Works (selection)

  • The English country seat, 1715–1760: symbol of a liberal world design (= Studia Iconologica Vol. 4, edited by Hermann Bauer and Friedrich Piel), Mäander Verlag, Mittenwald 1982, ISBN 3-88219-061-2 .
  • The landscaped garden . Heyne Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-453-41349-0 ( Heyne Stilkunde , Volume 22) (emerged from his dissertation at the University of Munich).
    • extended new edition: The landscape garden: garden art of classicism and romanticism . DuMont, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-2088-4 ( dumont documents ).
      • Including extended editions in Spanish (1993) and Hungarian (1999).
  • Historical gardens in Schleswig-Holstein , ed. by Adrian von Buttlar and Margita M. Meyer, Boyens Buchverlag, Heide 1996, 1998², ISBN 3-8042-0790-1 .
  • Leo von Klenze: life, work, vision . CH Beck, Munich 1999, 2014², ISBN 3-406-45315-5 .
  • Endangered post-war modernism - a research and mediation task, in: Adrian von Buttlar, Christoph Heuter (ed.) Architecture of the 60s - Rediscovery of an Era , Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-939633-40-2 , p. 14 -27.
  • Who, what, how, why? Critical basics of reconstruction , in: still "... start a new Heidelberg debate"? Reconstruction and garden monument maintenance - Documentation of the symposium in Heidelberg on April 17, 2008 , ed. from the Association of State Monument Preservationists in the Federal Republic of Germany, Regional Council Stuttgart State Office for Monument Preservation (= reports on research and practice in monument preservation in Germany 15), Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2008. ISBN 978-3-86568-450-9 , p. 21 -29.
  • Eight theses on monument protection in post-war modernism , in: Hans-Rudolf Meier, Ingrid Scheurmann (Ed.) Monument Values ​​- Contributions to Theory and Topicality of Monument Preservation , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin Munich 2010 ISBN 978-3-422-06903-9 , p. 123 -134.
  • Neues Museum Berlin - Architekturführer , Deutscher Kunstverlag, 3rd revised edition, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-422-06987-9 ( New Museum Berlin - Architectural Guide , ISBN 978-3-422-06980-0 ; span. Museo nuevo de Berlín - Guía arcuitectónica , ISBN 978-3-422-06982-4 ; Italian New Museum Berlino - Guida dell´architettura , ISBN 978-3-422-06981-7 )
  • In Search of Difference: Minima Moralia of Reproductive Memory Architecture. In: Adrian von Buttlar et al. (Ed.): Preservation of monuments instead of dummy cult. Against the reconstruction of architectural monuments - an anthology / Edited and commented by Adrian von Buttlar, Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper , Michael S. Falser, Achim Hubel , Georg Mörsch / Introduction and editing: Johannes Habich . Bauverlag, Birkhäuser, Gütersloh, Berlin, Basel 2010, ISBN 978-3-0346-0705-6 ( Bauwelt Fundamente . 146), pp. 166–193.
  • Death, happiness and fame in Sanssouci. A guide through the garden world of Frederick the Great (together with Marcus Köhler), ed. from the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg, Hatje-Cantz, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-3314-4 .
  • Post-War Modern Architecture - Architectural Guide Berlin 1949-1979 (edited by Adrian von Buttlar, Kerstin Wittmann-Englert and Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper in the series "Research on Post-War Modernity" of the Department of Art History at the Institute for Art Research and Historical Urban Studies at the Technical University of Berlin), Reimer , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-496-01486-7 .
  • Leo von Klenze - Guide to his buildings , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-07274-9 .
  • Brutalism in Germany - Progress pathos as aesthetic revolt , in: brutalism - contributions of the international symposium in Berlin 2012 (= supplement to the exhibition book SOS brutalism An international survey , published by the Wüstenrot Foundation on the occasion of the exhibition "SOS Brutalism - Save the concrete monster", German Architekturmuseum Frankfurt am Main, November 9, 2017 - April 2, 2018), Park Books, Zurich, 2017, pp. 63–75, ISBN 978-3-03860-074-9 .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adrian von Buttlar: Open letter on the planned renovation of St. Hedwig's Cathedral. March 21, 2016, accessed April 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Buttlar, Adrian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg