Daniel Hess (art historian)

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Daniel Hess (* 1963 in Richterswil , Canton of Zurich ) is a Swiss art historian and has been General Director of the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg since July 1, 2019 .

Daniel Hess, 2019

Life

Daniel Hess studied art history, church history and literary criticism at the University of Zurich from 1983 to 1988 , where he graduated with a licentiate. During his doctorate at the University of Stuttgart he was supported from 1989 to 1992 with scholarships from the DAAD and the Baden-Württemberg State Graduate Fund. He then worked for the Corpus Vitrearum Germany , before becoming head of the collections painting until 1800 and glass painting at the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg in 1998 . Daniel Hess was appointed to the newly established Chair of Museum Research and Cultural History at the University of Erlangen in June 2019 . On July 1, 2019, he succeeded G. Ulrich Großmann as General Director of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum.

Committees and honorary positions

Research projects

Exhibitions

  • November 17, 2005 - March 5, 2006: With milk porridge and rod. Family, school and education during the Reformation . Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg.
  • 2010: Redesign of the Renaissance permanent collection . Baroque . Enlightenment in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg.
  • May 24, 2012 - September 2, 2012: The early Dürer - The largest Dürer exhibition for 40 years. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg.
  • April 11, 2019 - October 04, 2020: Heroes, martyrs, saints. Paths to paradise. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg.

Publications (selection)

  • Dürer's self-portrait from 1500 - "Old Deus" or New Apelles? In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg. 77, 1990, pp. 63-90.
  • Master of the "medieval house book", studies on the janitorial question. Mainz 1994.
  • The Gotha lovers - an unequal couple in the garb of courtly love. Frankfurt am Main 1996.
  • Baroque late Romanesque or Byzantine Gothic? The zigzag style in the visual arts from 1250 to 1290. In: Himmelslicht - European glass painting in the century of the Cologne cathedral building (1248–1349). Exhibition catalog. Schnütgen-Museum, Cologne 1998, pp. 63–72.
  • The medieval glass paintings in Frankfurt and in the Rhine-Main area. (= Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Germany. III, 1). Berlin 1999.
  • In Rembrandt's workshop. The master in original, copy and study. Exhibition catalog Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg / Gemäldegalerie Berlin. Nuremberg 2001, ISBN 3-926982-74-8 .
  • with others: With milk porridge and rod. Family, school and education during the Reformation. (= Cultural-historical walks in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Volume 8). Nuremberg 2005, ISBN 3-936688-10-9 .
  • The reredos of weather and the interactions between panel and glass painting in Hesse and the Middle Rhine around 1250. In: Westphalia. 80, 2002, 2005, pp. 245-258.
  • Contributions in: Middle Ages. Art and culture from late antiquity to the 15th century (= the exhibition collections of the Germanic National Museum. 2). Edited by Jutta Zander-Seidel, Daniel Hess, Frank Matthias Kammel , Ralf Schürer. Nuremberg 2007, p. 185–191: From the antependium to the retable: Panel painting in the 13th century, p. 241–251: Space and color: Architecture and painting, p. 265–276: Styles and regions: painting and glass painting, p. 290–298: The imagery of the altar, pp. 337–348: Between France and Bohemia: Nuremberg painting and glass painting.
  • with Thomas Eser: The bay window in which Dürer painted. Questions about the location of Dürer's artistic work. In: G. Ulrich Großmann, Franz Sonnenberger (Ed.): The Dürer House. New research results. (= Dürer research. 1). Nuremberg 2007, pp. 141–172.
  • with Dagmar Hirschfelder (Ed.): Renaissance. Baroque. Enlightenment (= The exhibition collections of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. 3). Nuremberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-936688-47-4 .
  • Cultural history in the Germanic National Museum. In: Martina Padberg, Martin Schmidt (Ed.): The magic of history. History culture and museum. (= Writings of the Federal Association of Freelance Cultural Scientists. 3). Bielefeld 2010, pp. 137–149.
  • The "Swiss Disc" and the construction of a Swiss national culture. In: Edgar Bierende, Sibylle Hoiman, Anna Minta, Matthias Noell (Hrsg.): Helvetische Merklinge. Perception and representation of Switzerland in art and cultural history since the 18th century. (= New Bern writings on art. 11). Bern 2010, pp. 173–189.
  • with Oliver Mack: Luther at the crossroads or the mistake of a copyist? A Cranach painting put to the test. In: Wolfgang Augustyn, Ulrich Söding (Hrsg.): Original - Copy - Quote. Works of art from the Middle Ages and early modern times: ways of appropriation - forms of transmission. (= Publications of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. 26). Passau 2010, pp. 279-295.
  • with Bernhard Maaz: art museums. In: Bernhard Graf, Volker Rodekamp (Ed.): Museums between quality and relevance. Memorandum on the location of the museums . Institute for Museum Research, Berlin 2012, pp. 285–297.
  • with Thomas Eser (ed.): The early Dürer. Accompanying volume for the exhibition in the Germanic National Museum. Nuremberg / London 2012, ISBN 978-3-936688-59-7 .
  • with Oliver Mack: Between perfection and casualness. On the painting of Albrecht Altdorfer. In: Christoph Wagner, Oliver Jehle (Ed.): Albrecht Altdorfer . Regensburg 2012, pp. 37–53.
  • with Jeffrey Chipps Smith: Dürer's Life and Work. The Object as a Key to the Subject? In: CIHA2012 Nuremberg: The Challenge of the Object / The Challenge of the Object. Files from the 33rd International Art Historians Congress, Nuremberg, 15. – 20. July 2012. Edited by G. Ulrich Großmann, Petra Krutisch. Editing, Volume 3 (= scientific supplements to the display of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum 32, 3). Nuremberg 2013, pp. 996–999.
  • Hans von Aufseß: collector, patriot and museum founder; Emperor and Empire. In: Jutta Zander-Seidel, Anja Kregeloh (Hrsg.): Geschistorbilder . The foundation of the Germanic National Museum and the Middle Ages . Nuremberg 2014, pp. 45–55, 249–261.
  • Between vertigo and closeness to God. The view from the mountain. In: Yasmin Doosry (ed.): Seen from above. The bird's eye view. Exhibition catalog. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 2014, pp. 143–171.
  • Romantic atmosphere and the invocation of the past: Motifs and functions of early stained glass collections around 1800. In: Collecting through connections. Glass and Stained Glass Collectors and their Networks in the 19th century. Revista de História de Arte 03, Lisbon 2015, pp. 7-20.
  • The new view of the world: nature and art from Dürer to Gessner. In: Urs B. Leu, Mylène Ruoss (Ed.): Facets of a Universe. Conrad Gessner 1516–2016 . Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-03810-152-9 , pp. 30–44.
  • with Hartmut Scholz and Peter Berkenkopf (eds.): Original cold painting on historical glass paintings. Contributions of the working discussion from 10./11. March 2016 in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. arthistoricum.net, Heidelberg 2018. doi: 10.11588 / arthistoricum.383.545 , ISBN 978-3-947449-00-2 .
  • with Markus Prummer (Ed.): Heroes, Martyrs, Saints. Paths to paradise. Exhibition catalog. Publisher of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-946217-18-3 .

Web links

Commons : Daniel Hess  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The art historian Daniel Hess becomes the new General Director of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. nordbayern.de 20 December 2018 .
  2. ^ The German panel painting of the late Middle Ages : Research project page at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum
  3. ^ Critical catalog of Luther portraits (1519–1530) : Research project page at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum
  4. ↑ With milk porridge and rod. Family, school and education during the Reformation. Exhibition site at the Germanic National Museum
  5. ↑ New conception of the Renaissance permanent collection. Baroque. Enlightenment. Research project website at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum
  6. ↑ The early Dürer : exhibition website
  7. ↑ Heroes, martyrs, saints. Paths to paradise. Exhibition site at the Germanic National Museum
personal data
SURNAME Hess, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Richterswil