Christian Fuhrmeister

Christian Fuhrmeister (born March 30, 1963 in Flensburg ) is a German art historian who works at the Central Institute for Art History in Munich .

Live and act

After graduating from high school in Wilhelmshaven in 1982 , Christian Fuhrmeister initially completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason in Welzheim in 1984/85 before studying English, art and art history at the University of Oldenburg , the University of Hamburg and at Towson University near Baltimore ( Maryland ) from 1986 . He passed his first state examination as a high school teacher in 1992 in Oldenburg. From 1994 to 1997 Fuhrmeister was a scholarship holder at the Graduate School Political Iconography at the University of Hamburg, where he received his doctorate in 1998 .

After teaching assignments in Oldenburg, Bielefeld and Braunschweig, Christian Fuhrmeister completed a traineeship at the Sprengel Museum Hanover from 2000 to 2002 , where he published an exhibition catalog on New Objectivity in Hanover.

After Fuhrmeister headed the office of the Department of Art Studies at the University of Munich from 2002 to 2003 , he has been working as a research assistant at the Central Institute for Art History in Munich since December 2003. In 2013 he completed his habilitation at the University of Munich with the thesis The German Military Art Protection in Italy 1943–1945 as a field of art historical practice. A contribution to the history of art history in the years 1936–1963 and has taught there since then as a private lecturer .

From 2006 to 2015 he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge .

His main research interests include art and art history during the Nazi era , art theft under the Nazis , restitution after 1945, and art protection during the Second World War .

Fonts (selection)

• Concrete, clinker, granite. Material, power, politics - a material iconography . Verlag Bauwesen, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-345-00715-0 (= dissertation under the title Concrete, Clinker, Granite. The Political Significance of the Material of Monuments in the Weimar Republic and National Socialism . University of Hamburg 1998).

editor

• (Ed.): "The strongest expression of our day". New objectivity in Hanover . Catalog for the exhibition from December 9, 2001 to March 10, 2002 in the Sprengel Museum Hanover. Olms, Hildesheim u. a. 2001, ISBN 3-487-11440-2 ( table of contents ).
• with Nicola Doll, Michael H. Sprenger (ed.): Art history in National Socialism. Contributions to the history of a science between 1930 and 1950. [Accompanying volume to the traveling exhibition "Art History in National Socialism", Bonn, Kunsthistorisches Institut, March 16 - April 29, 2005 ... Karlsruhe, Institute of Art History, October 5 - November 19, 2005 and Hamburg, State Library and Berlin, Humboldt University]. VDG, Weimar 2006, ISBN 3-89739-481-2 ( table of contents ).
• with Stephan Klingen, Iris Lauterbach, Ralf Peters (eds.): "Führer mission monumental painting". A photo campaign 1943–1945 (= publications of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich, Volume 18). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-02406-2 ( table of contents ).
• with Birgit Jooss (Ed.): National Identities - International Avant-gardes. Munich as the European center of artist education. (= Zeitblicke 5, 2006, No. 2). URL: http://www.zeitenblicke.de/2006/2/ [19. September 2006].
• with Wolfgang Ruppert (Ed.): Between German Art and International Modernity. Forms of artist training 1918 to 1968. VDG, Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-89739-583-1 ( table of contents ).
• with Stephan Klingen, Ralf Peters (ed.): Art historian in the war. German Military Art Protection in Italy 1943–1945 (= publications of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich, Volume 29). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-412-20804-2 ( table of contents ).
• with Monika Hauser-Mair, Felix Steffan (eds.): bequeathed, decayed, displaced - art and National Socialism. The collection of the Städtische Galerie Rosenheim in the time of National Socialism and in the post-war years . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7319-0569-1 ( table of contents ).

Web links

• Christian Fuhrmeister on the homepage of the Central Institute for Art History (with curriculum vitae and list of publications).
• Detailed curriculum vitae
• Christian Fuhrmeister formerly on volksbund.de