Andreas Köstler

Andreas Köstler (* 1962 ) is a German art historian .

Life

From 1982 to 1989 he studied art history, classical archeology and medieval history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , at the Courtauld Institute of Art and at the University of Hamburg . From 1989 to 1991 he was a research assistant on the DFG project "Lorraine Sculpture of the 14th Century" in Saarbrücken . After receiving his doctorate in 1993 on the subject of “The Aestheticization of the Cult Space. To equip the Elisabeth Church in Marburg in the 13th and 14th centuries ”at the University of Marburg , he was a research assistant at the Art History Seminar in Hamburg from 1996 to 1997 . After completing his habilitation in 1997 on the subject of “Place Royale. Metamorphoses of a Critical Form of Absolutism ”at the University of Hamburg from 1997 to 2005 he was a professor at the Art History Department of the Ruhr University in Bochum . Since 2005 he has been Professor of Art History at the Institute for Arts and Media of the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Potsdam . Since 2006 he has been a Liaison Lecturer at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . Since 2012 he has been a board member of the Theodor Fontane Society .

His main research interests are the functional and ritual history of medieval sacred architecture and its furnishings, political iconography, urbanism, architecture and sculpture in France and Germany, collection and museumisation, and the history and methodology of art history.

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• Prof. Dr. Andreas Köstler