Andreas Tönnesmann

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Andreas Tönnesmann (born October 24, 1953 in Bonn ; † May 23, 2014 in Munich ) was a German art historian and university professor specializing in the history of architecture .

Life

Tönnesmann initially volunteered as a journalist and then studied art history and literary studies at German and Italian universities. After completing his master's degree, he did an internship as a journalist. At the University of Bonn , he was in 1980 with the work of The Palazzo Gondi in Florence for Dr. phil. PhD. He then devoted four years to research into building history as a research assistant at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome . He then had a position as a research assistant at the Technical University of Munich , which led to his habilitation in 1989 . As a private lecturer , he took on a short-term substitute for the chair for building history at RWTH Aachen University as well as a teaching position at the University of Basel . From 1991 he was Professor of Architectural History, first at the University of Bonn and later at the University of Augsburg . In 2001 he followed a call to the prestigious chair of the Institute for Art and Architectural History at the ETH Zurich . In addition, he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Basel in 2002.

Tönnesmann's main areas of work were European art and architecture of the Renaissance and modern times . In 2011, the Zurich Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture identified the topic of libraries as its special research project . On the architecture of knowledge since the Renaissance .

Together with two specialist colleagues, Tönnesmann was the editor of the Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte . He was a member of the jury for the Prix ​​Jubilé of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences and of the University Commission of the Istituto Svizzero di Roma. Before that, he was an expert reviewer for the German Research Foundation . Together with two specialist colleagues, he led the inter-university ProDoc program “Art as cultural transfer since the Renaissance”, which is financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation. He performed other voluntary functions for the German National Academic Foundation , the Evangelical Study Center in Villigst , the Center d'études supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours and the European Science Foundation .

Tönnesmann had been married to the doctor Bernadette Fittkau-Tönnesmann since 1990, and privately since 2008 he has also been an expert in supporting the preservation of the Stuttgart main station building.

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  1. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 27, 2014 (accessed on May 27, 2014).
  2. a b c Curriculum Vitae on the ETH Zurich website
  3. Archive link ( Memento from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=1223
  5. http://www.gta.arch.ethz.ch/haben/andreas-toennesmann/forschung
  6. Bernadette Fittkau-Tönnesmann Vita  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.lmu-hmi-allianz.de  
  7. List of supporters for the preservation of Stuttgart Central Station
  8. Hannes Hintermeier: Andreas Tönnesmann: Monopoly There is only such a bank here. Review. In: FAZ . November 23, 2011.
  9. Achatz von Mueller: Nature of Art, Style of Man: The epoch of mannerism in a new representation. Review. In: The time . October 1, 1998.