Andreas Tönnesmann

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.

Works

Monographs:

• The freedom of viewing. Writings on architecture, art and literature. gta Verlag, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-85676-323-7 .
• Monopoly . The game, the city and luck. Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8031-5181-0 .
• The art of the Renaissance . CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54689-1 .
• with Bernd Roeck : The nose of Italy: Federico da Montefeltro , Duke of Urbino. Wagenbach, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8031-3616-4 .
  • Federico da Montefeltro. Arte, stato e mestiere delle armi. Einaudi, Turin 2009, ISBN 978-88-06-19713-1 .
• Small art history of Rome. CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-48616-9 .
• with Daniel Arasse : European mannerism . 1520-1610. CH Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-42755-3
  • La renaissance maniériste. Gallimard, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-07-011278-0 .
• Pienza : Urban planning and humanism. (with photographs by Gerhard Weiss) Hirmer, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7774-5410-9 .
• with Ursula Verena Fischer Pace: Santa Maria della Pietà, the church of Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1988, ISBN 3-451-20882-2 .
• The Palazzo Gondi in Florence. Werner, Worms 1983, ISBN 3-88462-023-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Tönnesmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry at Wagenbach-Verlag with a photo portrait
• Complete list of publications

Individual evidence

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 archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
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.