Bernhard Rupprecht

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Bernhard Rupprecht (born March 10, 1928 in Bamberg ; † November 6, 2017 ) was a German art historian , particularly of painting and architecture of the Renaissance and Baroque .

life and work

From 1951 to 1957 Rupprecht studied art history, history, philosophy and archeology at the Philosophical-Theological University of Bamberg (today Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg ) and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich . There he received his doctorate with Hans Sedlmayr with the dissertation The Bavarian Rococo Church . In 1958 and 1959 he carried out research with a grant from the Free State of Bavaria at the Central Institute for Art History in Munich , which was followed by a research assignment from the German Research Foundation (DFG) in 1960 . Among other things, Rupprecht examined the villas of Andrea Palladio in northern Italy. In 1961 he moved to the Art History Institute in Florence , where he studied the Renaissance architecture of Northern Italy until 1963.

He then returned to the Art History Department of the University of Munich and deepened his studies of the painting of churches in southern Germany in the Baroque and Rococo periods . In 1966 he was co-founder and co-editor of the "Corpus of Baroque Ceiling Painting in Germany". In the same year he completed his habilitation in Munich on the subject of "The Villa in Veneto".

In 1969 he was appointed to the newly founded University of Regensburg , where he was the first professor at a "Department of Art History" until 1974. From this department the Chair of Art History was created in 1976 . In 1974 Rupprecht was appointed to the Institute for Art History at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg , where he received support from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the multi-volume company of the “Corpus of Baroque Ceiling Painting in Germany”. His best-known students include Helmut-Eberhard Paulus and Wolf Eiermann . After his retirement in 1993, Rupprecht dealt among other things with the Venetian painting of the 16th century, especially with the works of Tintoretto .

literature

  • Sylvia Glaser (Ed.): Musis et litteris: Festschrift for Bernhard Rupprecht for his 65th birthday . Fink, Munich, 1993.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Rupprecht obituary , FAZ November 11, 2017
  2. ^ Bernhard Rupprecht: The Bavarian Rococo Church , Lassleben, Kallmünz, 1959
  3. ^ Institute for Art History, University of Munich
personal data
SURNAME Rupprecht, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, professor of art history
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 2017