Christoph Geissmar-Brandi

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Christoph Geissmar-Brandi (born February 13, 1958 in Braunschweig ) is a German art historian .

Life

Geissmar-Brandi studied art history, literary studies and psychology at the University of Hamburg . He did his doctorate in 1990 under Horst Bredekamp with a corpus of pictures of Jakob Böhme . From 1989 he worked as a curator in the Albertina graphic collection , then for the Kunsthalle Wien , the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, the Museum of Art and Industry in Hamburg and the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt / Main. He lives in Berlin. Geissmar-Brandi received teaching assignments from the Institute for Art and Visual History at the Humboldt University and the Leuphana University in Lüneburg. He works as a private archivist and language teacher.

Act

Christoph Geissmar-Brandi's research focuses on baroque book illustrations , drawings and prints from the 15th and 16th centuries, contemporary art and architecture. He developed the first exhibition on the art-historical methods of Aby Warburg (Die Beredsamkeit des Leibes / Vienna 1992), a comparative study of the Christian iconography of the Renaissance with contemporary art (Faith Hope Love Death / Vienna 1995) and a phenomenology of shadow (The Secret des Schattens / Frankfurt / Main 2003). He also works as a non-fiction author in the field of architecture and light .

Christoph Geissmar-Brandi has received numerous scholarships. He was a guest of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel (1988/89) and the Warburg Institute (1990) in London.

Fonts (selection)

  • 1992: The eloquence of the body , together with Ilsebill Barta Hg., Salzburg – Vienna
  • 1993: The Eye of God. Pictures of Jakob Böhme , Wolfenbütteler Studien zur Barockforschung, Wiesbaden
  • 1995: Faith Hope Love Death , together with Eleonora Louis Hg., Klagenfurt
  • 1999: The rhetoric of passion - On the visual language of art in the West , together with Ilsebill Barta-Fliedl and Naoki Sato ed., Japanese (Tokyo) & German (Hamburg)
  • 2001: (together with Ulrike Brandi) Lichtbuch, Die Praxis der Lichtplanung, 256 pages in four colors, Basel-Berlin-Boston, German and English edition
  • 2001: The Faces of Skin , Japanese, Christoph Geissmar-brandi, Irmela Hijiya - Kirschnereit, Naoki Sato (ed.), Tokyo
  • 2002: Faces of the Skin , Christoph Geissmar-Brandi, Irmela Hijiya - Kirschnereit, Naoki Sato (ed.), Frankfurt / Main
  • 2002: Catalog for the exhibition DAM (ed.): The secret of shadows, light and shadow in architecture, German and English, 222 pp., Tübingen
  • 2006: Light for Cities - A Guide to Light Planning in Urban Space , German and English, 192 pages, 40 black and white drawings, Basel

Essays

  • 1993: A Geometrical Order of the World: Otto van Veens ... , in: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institute, London

literature

  • Christoph Geissmar-Brandi, in: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2007. 19th edition, 3 volumes. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists. KG Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-598-23607-7

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personal data
SURNAME Geissmar-Brandi, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig