Andreas Kühne (science historian)

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Andreas Kühne (born September 27, 1952 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German historian of science with a research focus on the early modern period, as well as an art historian , art critic , art journalist and exhibition curator .

Life

Andreas Kühne studied from 1971 at the section for technical cybernetics at the TU Ilmenau , where he graduated in 1975 as Dipl.-Ing. and in 1981 as Dr.-Ing. in information science . From 1982 to 1986 he was an archivist at the German Academy for Natural Scientists Leopoldina in Halle. At the same time he studied history of science and art history at the University of Halle .

In 1991 Kühne became a collaborator and in 2000 co-editor of the Nicolaus Copernicus Complete Edition . At the University of Munich in 1991 he was given a lectureship in the history of natural sciences . In 2000 there was the habilitation for the same subject with the thesis The German Perspective Theorists of the 16th Century and the appointment as a private lecturer . In 2008 he was appointed adjunct professor at LMU. In 2001 he was appointed honorary professor at the A Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In 2008 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Munich. From 2009 to 2010 Kühne was Professor of Museology at the University of Applied Science and Art in Hildesheim .

Kühne has been a Senior Researcher at the Research Institute of the Deutsches Museum since 2019 .

Also in 2019, Kühne completed the Nicolaus Copernicus Complete Edition, which now comprises 11 (partial) volumes, with Volume IV. He was co-editor of 5 of them and editor of 7. In addition, he has been the review editor for Sudhoff's archive since 2014 and co-editor of the Preußenland yearbook since 2017 .

Memberships

In 2014, the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts elected Kühne as a full member of the visual arts department. In 2008 he became membre correspondant of the Académie internationale d'histoire des sciences . In 2003 the Neue Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft accepted him as an honorary member . In Munich, he has been a board member of the Association of Exhibition House for Christian Art (VAH) since 2007 and an advisory board of the Dr. Rolf Linnenkamp Foundation since 2011 .

Publications (selection)

Nicolaus Copernicus Complete Edition

- see there under employees and bibliographical information .

Scientific history essays

  • with Stefan Kirschner : The art of arithmetic. A “Tabula Pytagora” by the Nuremberg goldsmith Wenzel Jamnitzer (1508–1585) . In: Gudrun Wolfschmidt (Ed.): “There is no special way to geometry for kings” . Festschrift for Karin Reich (=  Algorism . Issue 60). Dr. Erwin Rauner Verlag, Augsburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-936905-23-6 , pp. 241-258 .
  • The art in nature. Albrecht Dürer as the author of mathematical and art theoretical writings . In: Mamoun Fansa (Ed.): Ex oriente lux? Paths to modern science (=  series of publications by the Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch . Issue 70). Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2009, ISBN 978-3-8053-4075-5 , p. 92-105 .
  • with Stefan Kirschner: The Decline of Medieval Disputation Culture and the “Wittenberg Interpretations of The Copernican Theory” . In: Wolfgang Neuber , Thomas Rahn and Claus Zittel (eds.): The Making of Copernicus. Early Modern Transformations of the Scientist and his Science (=  Intersections . Band 36 ). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-90-04-28110-3 , pp. 13–41 , doi : 10.1163 / 9789004281127_003 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Nicolaus Copernicus. The new worldview and its reception by the reformers . In: Stephanie Armer and Thomas Eser (eds.): Luther, Columbus and the consequences. World in Transition 1500–1600 . Verlag des Germanisches Nationalmuseums, Nuremberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-946217-06-0 , p. 36–53 , doi : 10.11588 / arthistoricum.380.541 (catalog for the exhibition at GNM Nuremberg from July 13 to November 12, 2017).

Festschriften as editor

Art history

  • with Lisa Kirch: Some thoughts on the changing presentation and preservation of modern and postmodern art . In: Ursula Schädler-Saub and Angela Weyer (Eds.): Theory and Practice in the Conservation of Modern and Contemporary Art. Reflections on the Roots and the Perspectives . Proceedings of the International Symposium held 13–14 January 2009 at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Faculty Preservation of Cultural Heritage, Hildesheim (=  Schriften des Hornemann Institute . Volume 12 ). Archetype Publications, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-904982-54-8 .
  • The rule of robots - monsters, androids and mythical creatures in the work of Rudolf Schlichter . In: Matthias von der Bank, Claudia Heitmann and Sigrid Lange (eds.): Rudolf Schlichter. Eros and Apocalypse. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7319-0309-3 , p. 33–41 ( exhibition catalog [PDF; 2.4 MB ]).
  • Representing the transcendent through the transparent - contemporary church windows as design elements of sacred spaces . In: George Resenberg and Walter Zahner (eds.): Teamwork. Art in sacred space (=  catalog [...] of the German Society for Christian Art . No. 147 ). Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7954-3376-5 , pp. 200–207 (catalog of the traveling exhibition).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Andreas Kühne. Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, accessed on December 17, 2019.
  2. ↑ Andreas Kühne. New Munich Artists' Cooperative, accessed on November 14, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b List of authors in: Rudolf Seising, Menso Folkerts, Ulf Hashagen (eds.): Form, number, order: Studies on the history of science and technology. Ivo Schneider on his 65th birthday. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004, p. 896 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ↑ a b c d e f curriculum vitae. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München > Faculty of History and Art Studies> History Seminar> History of Science, accessed on November 15, 2019.
  5. ↑ Honorary professors . Academy of Fine Arts Munich, accessed on November 15, 2019.
  6. ↑ a b Senior Researcher. In: Deutsches-Museum.de , accessed on November 19, 2019.
  7. ↑ Contact and imprint of the VAH. Retrieved November 15, 2019.
  8. ↑ Current Dr.-Rolf-Linnenkamp-Stiftung, accessed on November 15, 2019.
  9. ↑ Catalog 'Interplay: Art in Sacred Space' . In: DG-galerie.de , Retrieved on November 19, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Kühne, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)