Alexander Rauch

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Alexander Rauch (born October 13, 1943 in Bad Tölz ) is a German art historian .

Life

After completing a commercial school and the subsequent Abitur at the Musisches Pestalozzi-Gymnasium in Munich, Rauch first studied philosophy , sociology and art history at the University of Munich with Hans Sedlmayr , Wolfgang Braunfels , Norbert Lieb , Hermann Bauer and Friedrich Piel .

After studying in Italy, France and Israel, he received a research grant of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and was 1976 in Munich in the subjects of art history at Hermann Bauer, classical archeology at Erwin Bielefeld and ethnology at Laszlo Vajda Dr. phil. PhD with the grade summa cum laude . His dissertation Schloss Herrenchiemsee - Rooms and Symbols resulted in several publication orders.

From 1976 he worked as a research assistant to Wolfgang Braunfels at the University of Munich and from 1977 at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. From 1980 he was a lecturer in art history at the University of Munich. Between 1990 and 1995 Rauch was director of the Villa Stuck Museum - at times together with Hans Ottomeyer - in Munich and at the Munich City Museum.

Since retiring, he has been working with his wife, the art historian Christiane Rauch, as an art book author, art appraiser and consultant for collectors, the art trade and auction houses. Since 2005 he has lived in Leipzig with his wife and two sons .

Services

Alexander Rauch was initially involved in the co-founding of the series Monument Topography of the Federal Republic of Germany under Conservator General Michael Petzet from 1977 and worked as editor and author of the first volumes Stadt Schwabach and Stadt Eichstätt . As a result of this research in the field of architecture and building research , he also worked as a consultant for the Eichstätt agricultural office. He also dedicated himself specifically to the restoration of the Eichstätter Residenzplatz in terms of monument preservation, with several publications.

Until 1989 he worked as an author for the Dehio-Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler (Deutscher Kunstverlag) in seven districts of the volumes of Upper and Lower Bavaria. In the field of painting , he wrote articles on Herder's Grosses Kunstlexikon or Bruckmann's Lexikon der Münchner Kunst, Munich painters in the 19th and 20th centuries , Das Große Lexikon der Graphik (Westermann Verlag), but also monographs on Munich artists such as Franz von Stuck or Joseph Wopfner .

In the field of international art, works on the painting of the Italian Renaissance , the European Renaissance and the painting of Classicism and Romanticism emerged . Furthermore, he was the main initiator of the preparation and led the international symposium “A Jewish Museum for Munich”. Lectures and publications followed, such as the Sign Language of Jewish Architecture in Munich , the 1995 exhibition “Memorials of the Holocaust” and the preparatory work for a lexicon of Jewish artists. In addition to specialist publications, Rauch also devoted himself to popular science articles, for example in the art magazine PAN (Burda-Verlag). Rauch has published his research results on the subject of Ludwig II of Bavaria in monographs on the castles of Neuschwanstein , Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee . In autumn 2010 he gave a lecture at the Academy of Sciences in Munich in connection with the Bavarian State Exhibition 2011 “ Götterdämmerung. King Ludwig II and his time ”, organized by the Bavarian State Ministry for Science, Research and Art - House of Bavarian History - published in the catalog of articles for the exhibition.

The majority of his works were created as a result of research assignments from the State Office for Monument Preservation, Dehio Society, museums and university research programs. This resulted in monographs on urban architecture, artist monographs, art lexical works, mainly from the areas of monument preservation, architecture and painting in southern Germany from the 18th to the 20th century, the Italian Renaissance, European art of the Romantic period and classicism, but also research results from Jewish history. From his research on King Ludwig II of Bavaria, publications in this area arose. During his work at the Munich City Museum or as director of the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich, he worked on numerous exhibitions, including those on modernism. As an art appraiser for the TV station SWR in the series Echt antique?! participated.

Fonts

  • Herrenchiemsee Palace, the history of its origins and the nature of its architecture. Dissertation. 1976. With complete plan catalog and publication of all correspondence (secret house archive of the Wittelsbach house).
  • The big festivals of the church year based on masterpieces by Albrecht Dürer. IMM Institute, Munich-Vienna 1977.
  • City of Schwabach. Series: Monuments in Bavaria . Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, Munich 1978.
  • Bruckmanns Lexikon der Münchner Kunst, Munich painters in the 19th (and 20th) centuries. Edited by Horst Ludwig. Co-author in volumes 1–4, Munich 1981–193, co-author in volumes 5–6, Munich 1993/1994.
  • The Great Lexicon of Graphics. 19th century subject area. Westermann, Braunschweig 1984.
  • Eichstätts princely legacy: on the restoration and history of the Residenzplatz. In: Festschrift for the restoration of the Residenzplatz in Eichstätt. Landbauamt Eichstätt, 1985.
  • Herder's Great Art Lexicon. (Article areas architecture, synagogue, Jewish art.) Freiburg 1988.
  • Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments. Volume Bavaria II, Lower Bavaria, revision of the districts Straubing-Bogen and Kelheim. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1988.
  • City of Eichstätt, Series: Architectural Monuments in Bavaria, Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, Munich, 1989, 270 pp.
  • Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments. Volume Bavaria I, Upper Bavaria, revision of the districts of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Eichstätt, Berchtesgaden, Pfaffenhofen, Altötting. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1990.
  • Josef Wopfner 1843–1927. Monograph on the catalog raisonné by Irmgard Holz. Rosenheim, 1989.
  • Neuschwanstein Castle. Atlantis, Herrsching 1991.
  • " Apollo in Olymp of the Gods" For the previously unknown preliminary draft by Eduard Schwoiser for the ceiling painting "Der Göttermorgen" in the Chambre de Parade in Herrenchiemsee Palace Ludwig II., Hermann Bauer for his 60th birthday, In: Ars Bavarica, Collected Contributions to Art , History, Folklore and Monument Preservation in Bavaria. Ed. by Volker Liedke, Volume 65/66, Munich 1991, p. 115 ff.
  • Symbolism between “paradise” and “sin”. The artist's work and his villa. In: The Villa Stuck in Munich, staging an artist's life. Munich 1992.
  • Herrenchiemsee Palace - rooms and symbols. Köhler & Amelang, Munich, Berlin 1993.
  • Franz von Stuck. Catalog for the Museum of Modern Art exhibition Exhibition stations: Passau, Vienna, Munich, Rosenheim, Aschaffenburg and Freiburg. Passau 1993.
  • Munich's Jewish monuments. In: Monuments of Jewish Culture in Bavaria. State Office for Monument Preservation, Munich 1994.
  • Italian Renaissance art. In it: Painting of the High Renaissance and Mannerism in Rome and Central Italy - Painting of the Renaissance in Venice and Northern Italy. Edited by Rolf Tomann. Könemann, Cologne 1994.
  • Exoticism Eroticism - love, fear and the longing for salvation in modern art. Exhibition catalog of the Ursula Blickle Foundation. 1996.
  • Herrenchiemsee Castle. Large illustrated book monograph. Munich, Berlin, 1995.
  • Neuschwanstein. King Ludwig II of Bavaria and his castles. Series Built History. Volume I. Charivari, Munich 1996.
  • Herrenchiemsee. King Ludwig II of Bavaria and his castles. Series Built History. Volume II. Charivari, Munich 1997.
  • Linderhof. King Ludwig II of Bavaria and his castles. Series Built History. Volume III. Charivari, Munich 1997.
  • King Ludwig II. - I want to remain a riddle for ever ... King Ludwig II of Bavaria and his castles. Series Built History. Volume IV. Charivari, Munich 1997.
  • Erich Heckel: Discarded by World War? A newly discovered work by Erich Heckel from the time of the Brücke and some clarifications on the motif and meaning of the front. In: Bruckmann's Pantheon. International annual publication for art. Volume 56, 1998, p. 199 ff.
  • The art of Ludwig II - "an eternal riddle"? In: Monumental - Festschrift for Michael Petzet on his 65th birthday, edited by Susanne Böning-Weis, Karlheinz Hemmeter u. York Langenstein, workbooks of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, Volume 100, Munich 1998, pp. 755–773.
  • Classicism and Romanticism - Europe's painting between two revolutions. Edited by Rolf Tomann. Könemann, Cologne 2000.
  • Artist biographies on advertising art and product aesthetics. In: Strategies of Advertising Art 1850–1933. Catalog for the exhibition, German Historical Museum. Edited by Jörg Meißner. Berlin, 2004.
  • Mathias Waske - visions and parodies. Catalog for the exhibition Mathias Waske - Mona Lisa to Madonna, KunstHausWien. Hundertwasserhaus, Vienna 2005.
  • Renaissance, art and architecture of the 15th and 16th centuries in Europe , Barbara Borngässer, Alexander Rauch, Uwe Geese, Parragon-Verlag 2011
  • Herrenchiemsee, the new castle. In: E. Schmid, K. Knirr, A. Rauch: Herrenchiemsee, landscape and art. Bayerland, Munich, Dachau 2011.
  • Science under the spell of racial madness, Jewish scientists in the Third Reich , in: Symposium - Jewish mathematicians and physicists at the University of Leipzig in the first half of the 20th century. Ed. Arnold-Sommerfeld-Ges. eV, Prof. Dr. B. Kirstein, Universitätsverlag Leipzig, Leipzig 2015, p. 62 ff. ISBN 978-3-86583-981-7
  • A rediscovered painting by Johann Baptist Zimmermann . "Renunciation of earthly love". For a 1000th anniversary of Benediktbeuern? Andreas Prater on his 70th birthday. In: Das Münster , September 2017 issue.
  • Ludwig II. On the legacy of an artist on the throne. In: Royal castles and factories, Ludwig II. And architecture , exhibition cat. Technical University of Munich, to the exh. in the Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, ed. Andres Lepik / Katrin Bäumler, Munich 2018, p. 40 ff.
  • Birth of a dream , in: In the cradle - Ludwig II - the god-given fairy tale king , Ed. Christoph Kurzeder, catalog of the Diözesanmuseums München-Freising, 2018, p. 13 ff.

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SURNAME Rauch, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Tölz