Christoph Wagner (art historian)

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Christoph Wagner (born June 15, 1964 in Ottweiler ) is a German art historian with a focus on image studies , modern art and painting of the Italian Renaissance . He is a professor of early modern and modern art history at the University of Regensburg .

Career

Wagner studied following the Abitur at modern languages school Ottweiler 1983-1988 art history , musicology and comparative literature at the University of Saarland , the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich and the University of Vienna . He was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation .

From November 1988 to January 1989 he sat in on the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen in Munich, where he then worked as a research assistant at the Max Beckmann Archive. From 1989 to 1993 he continued his studies as part of a doctoral degree at Saarland University, supported by a doctoral grant from the German National Academic Foundation . In June 1993 he started a study on color and metaphor. The emergence of a modern pictorial metaphor in pre-Roman painting Raphael is doing his doctorate . In 1994 his dissertation was awarded the Dr. Eduard Martin Prize and supported by a printing grant from the German Research Foundation.

In 1995/96 Wagner took part as a postdoctoral fellow in the graduate college The Renaissance in Italy and its European reception at the University of Bonn under the direction of Gunter Schweikhart and was a lecturer at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt a. M. active. In 1996 Wagner became a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz as part of the academy lectures of young scientists. Colloquia Academica awarded. From 1992 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Art History, and from 1999 to 2004 as a research assistant at Christa Lichtenstern's chair at Saarland University. On January 19, 2004, he received his habilitation in art history at Saarland University with a thesis on utopia and historical context. Contributions to Johannes Itten at the Bauhaus in Weimar and his relationships with Walter Gropius and Paul Klee .

In 2004 he was appointed university lecturer and in July 2006 an adjunct professor at the University of Saarbrücken. In 2006 he represented Oskar Bätschmann's chair for art history at the University of Bern . Wagner received professorships for art history, a. a. to the University of Leipzig (2006), to the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (2007), to the University of Regensburg (2007) and to the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (2008).

Since October 2007 he has held the chair for art history at the University of Regensburg and director of the institute for art history. In 2008 he was Directeur d'études at the École pratique des Hautes Études ( Sorbonne ) in Paris , in 2010 as a visiting professor at the Graduate School, Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and the Social Sciences in Bern and in 2012 in Mexico at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas , UNAM . Since 2008 he has been the spokesman for the transdisciplinary thematic network Seeing and Understanding at the University of Regensburg, which he co-founded with 40 participating professorships. From 2008 to 2016 he took part in the Bavarian Elite Network . In 2009 he founded the international doctoral college "AISTHESIS" in cooperation with colleagues from the Universities of Bern and Vienna and the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . Wagner has been an elected member of the Academia Europaea (London) since 2009 . From 2011 to 2013 he was Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Art, History and Social Sciences. From October 2013 to September 2017, Wagner was Vice President of the University of Regensburg.

Wagner has been an elected member of the Board of Trustees of the Johannes Itten Foundation since 2004, of the Adolf Hölzel Foundation since 2007 and of the Board of Trustees of the German Color Center since 2015.

Research priorities

Wagner's research focuses on the history of the Bauhaus and post-1945 art , historiography and modern art theory , Italian painting of the 15th and 16th centuries, and questions relating to the methodology of art history. In addition, the relationship between film and art history is one of his focal points, as is the history of perception or questions of empirical aesthetics.

Fonts (selection)

  • Color and metaphor: the emergence of a modern pictorial metaphor in Raphael's pre-Roman painting . Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-7861-1761-6 (book version of the dissertation).
  • The accelerated look: Hann Trier and the procedural image. Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-7861-2331-4 .
  • Johannes Itten : All in One - All in Being, ed. v. EW Uthemann. Ostfildern-Ruit 2000, ISBN 978-3-7757-1218-7 .
  • As editor and author: The Bauhaus and esotericism: Johannes Itten, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky . Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-938025-39-5 .
  • As editor and author: Esotericism at the Bauhaus: A Revision of Modernity? Regensburg 2009 (Regensburg Studies on Art History; Vol. 1), ISBN 978-3-7954-2093-2 .
  • With Ulrich Nortmann as editor: Think in pictures? Cognitive potentials of visualization in art and science: International scientific symposium , Alfried Krupp Science College in Greifswald. Munich 2010 (evidentia; Vol. 1), ISBN 978-3-7705-4896-5 .
  • With Jakob Steinbrenner and Oliver Jehle as editors: FARBEN in Kunst- und Geisteswissenschaften (Regensburg Studies on Art History; Vol. 9). Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7954-2243-1 .
  • With Udo Hebel as editor: Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies: Approaches, Perspectives, Case Studies from Europe and America . Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023785-6
  • With Ralph Melcher as editor: The Bridge and Exotism: Images of the Other . Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-7861-2578-5 .
  • With Christoph Dohmen as editor: Religion as Image - Image as Religion (Regensburg Studies on Art History; Vol. 15). Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2546-3 .
  • With Oliver Jehle as editor: Albrecht Altdorfer. Art as second nature (Regensburg Studies on Art History; Vol. 17). Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2619-4 .
  • As editor and author: The Hall of Liberation in Kelheim. History, Myth, Present (Regensburg Studies on Art History; Vol. 18). Regensburg 2012, 978-3-7954-2617-0.
  • With Matthias Frehner , Monika Schäfer and Gereon Sievernich as editors: Itten - Klee. Cosmos color . Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2646-0 .
  • With Mark W. Greenlee, Rainer Hammwöhner , Bernd Körber, Christian Wolff as editors: Seeing pictures. Perspectives in visual studies (Regensburg Studies on Art History; Vol. 10). Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-2242-4 .
  • With Mark W. Greenlee and Christian Wolff as editors: »Aisthesis«. Processes of perception and forms of visualization in art and technology (Regensburg Studies on Art History; Vol. 12). Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-2241-7 .
  • As editor and author: Georg Jakob Best: Klee student, »degenerate artist«, painter of the Informel (Regensburg studies on art history; vol. 24). Regensburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7954-3001-6 .
  • With Gerhard Leistner as editor: Vision color. Adolf Hölzel and the modern age (evidentia; vol. 3). Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7705-5258-0 .
  • With Felix Billeter as editor: New ways to Hans Purrmann . Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7861-2776-5 .
  • With Monika Melters as editor: The squaring of space. Visual media of architecture in modern times and modern times (Zoom. Perspektiven der Moderne; Vol. 3). Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-7861-2719-2 .
  • With Dominic E. Delarue as editor: Michael Ostendorfer and the Reformation in Regensburg (Regensburg Studies on Art History; Vol. 27). Regensburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7954-3224-9 .

As the editor of his own scientific series:

  • Regensburg studies of art history . Schnell & Steiner Verlag, Regensburg 2008 until today.
  • evidentia . Fink Verlag, Munich / Paderborn 2010 to today.
  • Zoom. Perspectives of Modernity . Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin since 2014 until today.

As editor of scientific journals:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. 30th edition (2018), vol. 4, p. 3950f.
  2. a b c Institute for Art History: Prof. Dr. Christoph Wagner. In: Institute for Art History. Institute for Art History University of Regensburg, February 11, 2020, accessed on March 17, 2020 .
  3. Christoph Wagner. In: https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Wagner_Christoph . Academia Europaea, April 12, 2010, accessed March 17, 2020 .
  4. ^ Uni: Vice President confirmed in office. In: Mittelbayerische.de. Mittelbayerischer Verlag KG, July 17, 2015, accessed on March 17, 2020 .