Anton von Euw

Anton von Euw (born May 28, 1934 in Einsiedeln ; † November 10, 2009 in Cologne ) was a Swiss art historian and medievalist .

Life

After completing his education at the Benedictine grammar school in Einsiedeln, Anton von Euw studied art history, German and Christian archeology in Freiburg (Switzerland) and Bonn . In 1962 he completed his studies in Freiburg and received his doctorate there with the dissertation “Representations of the Three Kings in Cologne Cathedral and their iconographic derivation”. Since his student days he was a member of the Academic Association Fryburgia in the Swiss Student Association as well as the Catholic German Student Association Teutonia Friborg and the KDSt.V. Ripuaria Bonn .

From 1962 to 1997, Anton von Euw was a curator at the Schnütgen Museum in Cologne, initially as a scientific advisor, and from 1970 in the role of deputy museum director. Since his habilitation at the University of Cologne in 1970, he has held lectures, seminars and exercises on medieval art history. In 1972 he was appointed adjunct professor.

Basic publications written by Euw, especially on medieval book art .

From 1970 he was a member of the jury of the West German art and antiques fair for sculpture and Christian art of the Middle Ages. In 1992 he became Membre associé de l ' Académie Royale d'Archéologie de Belgique , Brussels. In 1997 he left the Museum Schnütgen with the commemorative publication “Thesaurus Coloniensis - Contributions to the Medieval Art History of Cologne”.

Von Euw was an honorary member of the Friends of the Schnütgen Museum Pro Arte Medii Aevi .

Art exhibitions

Anton von Euw was significantly involved in the preparation of important exhibitions with the associated catalogs, in particular:

• 1968: "World Art from Private Ownership", Cologne Art Gallery
• 1969: "Crib art in the Schnütgen Museum in Cologne" (The small sculptural work of the Einsiedeln artist Curiger)
• 1970: “Autumn of the Middle Ages - Late Gothic in Cologne and the Lower Rhine”, Glass Painting Department, Cologne Art Gallery
• 1971/1972: “Rhine and Maas - Art and Culture 800–1400” in Cologne and Brussels
• 1974/1975: "Monumenta Annonis - Worldview and Art in the High Middle Ages", Cologne and Siegburg
• 1976: "Ivory work from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages - From the Hüpsch collection of the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt", Liebieghaus Museum in Frankfurt am Main
• 1984/1985: "Ornamenta Ecclesiae - Art and Artists of the Romanesque", Cologne
• 1987: “Aratea - Starry Sky in Antiquity and the Middle Ages”, Cologne, The Hague, Zurich and Munich
• 1989: "The Book of the Four Gospels - Cologne's Carolingian Gospel Books", Cologne, The Hague and Brussels
• 1991: “Before the year 1000 - Western book art at the time of Empress Theophanu ”, Cologne
• 1998: "Faith and Knowledge in the Middle Ages - The Cologne Cathedral Library", Cologne.

Fonts (selection)

Of the approximately 150 publications, the following writings by Anton von Euw are particularly noteworthy:

• Representations of St. three kings in Cologne Cathedral and their iconographic derivation. In: Kölner Domblatt 23/24, 1965, pp. 293-340 (= dissertation).
• Illumination in Einsiedeln Abbey from the 10th to the 12th century. Habilitation thesis, Cologne 1970.
• Ivory work from the 9th to 12th centuries. in: Rhein und Maas , Vol. 2. Cologne 1973, pp. 377–386.
• with Joachim M. Plotzek : The manuscripts of the Ludwig Collection. Volumes 1 to 4, Cologne 1979–1985.
• Liber Viventium Fabariensis. The Carolingian memorial book by Pfäfers in its liturgical and art historical significance. Bern and Stuttgart 1989.
• with Peter Schreiner (Ed.): Empress Theophanu - Encounter of the East and West at the turn of the first millennium. 2 volumes, Cologne 1991.
• The artistic design of the astronomical and computist manuscripts of the West. in: Science in Western and Eastern Civilization in Carolingian Times. Basel 1993.
• The Lviv Gospels as a work of art. in: The Lemberg Gospel Book. A rediscovered Armenian illuminated manuscript from the 12th century. Wiesbaden 1997.
• The manuscripts and individual sheets of the Schnütgen Museum. Inventory catalog. Cologne 1997.
• with Hermann Bischofberger (Ed.): The Appenzeller Missal. Appenzell 2004.
• Artes liberales and artes technicae in the mirror of the ancient, early and high medieval manuscript tradition. in: Canossa 1077 - Shaking the world. History, art and culture of the Romanesque. Volume I: Essays. Munich 2006, pp. 544-554.
• St. Gallen book art from the 8th to the end of the 11th century. Volumes I – II: Text and table volume, St. Gallen 2008, ISBN 978-3-906616-85-8 .

literature

• Joachim M. Plotzek: Eulogy on Anton von Euw , in: Ulrich Krings, Wolfgang Schmitz, Hiltrud Westermann-Angerhausen (Ed.): Thesaurus Coloniensis. Contributions to the medieval art history of Cologne. Festschrift for Anton von Euw , Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-89498067-2 (with list of publications and curriculum vitae).
• Klaus Gereon Beuckers : Obituary for Anton von Euw. May 28, 1934 - November 10, 2009 , in: Zeitschrift des Deutschen Verein für Kunstwissenschaft , 63, 2009, pp. 278–284.
• Wolfgang Schmitz (Ed.): Anton von Euw. Bibliography of his writings from 1962 to 2011. University and City Library, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-931596-59-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Anton von Euw in the catalog of the German National Library