Andreas Thielemann

Andreas Thielemann (born July 31, 1955 in Dresden ; † February 17, 2015 in Rome ) was a German art historian and librarian .

life and work

Grave Melaten Cemetery

From 1972 to 1975, Andreas Thielemann completed vocational training with a high school diploma as a galvanizing specialist. 1977/78 he studied physics in Leipzig. From 1979 to 1982 he was curator of the sculpture collection of the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle. In 1983 his application to leave the GDR was approved. From 1983 to 1990 Thielemann studied art history , classical archeology and philosophy at the University of Cologne, where he received his doctorate in 1993 with a thesis on Phidias in the Quattrocento. From 1993 to 1999 he was a research assistant at the Art History Institute in Cologne. In 2001 Thielemann became a research assistant at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome. From 2004 to 2006 he completed a distance learning course in library science at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

From 2006 to 2015 Thielemann was head of the library at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome. Thielemann's main research areas were the reception of antiquity, the iconography of the philosophers, the horse tamers of the Quirinal, gesture language, Peter Paul Rubens , Adam Elsheimer and optics . In addition, he was committed to the “Geschichtscampus” website he founded for the reconstruction of the University Church in Leipzig and the culture of remembrance in general.

Thielemann died in 2015 at the age of 59 and was buried in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 22 (V)).

Fonts (selection)

• AB OLYMPO- The heroization of self and others by Andrea Mantegna. In: artist heroes? Merzhausen 2015, ISBN 978-3-942919-02-9
• Rubens` Trakat De imitatione statuarum, In: Imitatio als Transformation, Petersberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86568-763-0
• Lenti e specchi nella scienza e nella pittura del primo Seicento, in: L'arte della Matematica nella Prospettiva, Foligno 2009, ISBN 978-88-95686-15-8
• Adam Elsheimer in Rome, edited with Stefan Gronert , Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7774-4255-6 .
• Rubens Passioni, ed. With Ulrich Heinen, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-47902-6
• Michelangelo New Contributions, Ed. With Michael Rohlmann, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-06297-1
• Talking heads: Seneca portraits around 1600, in: 300 years “Thesaurus Brandenburgicus”, 2006, pp. 167–2006.
• Portrait statues of stoic philosophers, with Henning Wrede . In: Communications of the German Archaeological Institute, Athenian Department, Vol. 104, 1989, pp. 109–155.

literature

• Hans Ost , A German-German Scholarly Destiny, in Wallraf-Richarts-Jahrbuch, vol. 76, 2015, S./pp. 7-11.