David Freedberg

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David Adrian Freedberg (born June 4, 1948 in Cape Town , South African Union ) is a South African-American art historian .

Life

Figure No. 1, in: Freedberg: Iconoclasm (1972/1988):
Marcus Gerards the Elder : Allegory of Iconoclasm (1566).
Frontispiece in: Freedberg: The Power of Images (1989):
Nicolas Poussin : The dance around the golden calf (1633).
Freedberg is showing a black and white reproduction of the picture after its destruction in the National Gallery , London, in 1978.

David Freedberg attended South African College High School in Newlands , Cape Town , and studied Ancient Languages at Cape Town University and Yale University . He then studied art history on a Rhodes Scholarship in Oxford and received his doctorate there in 1973 from Balliol College .

Freedberg was a lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art , Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford in 1983 and was appointed to Columbia University in 1984 . From 1996 to 1998 he was Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the National Gallery of Art . In 2015 he was appointed director of the Warburg Institute .

He is on the editorial board of several scientific journals: Print Quarterly (London), Res (New York), Revue de l'Art, Nuncius (Florence), Journal of Neuroesthetics (London), Arts and Neurosciences (Paris), Imagines (Rome). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997), the American Philosophical Society (1997), the Accademia Nazionale di Agricultura, the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti and has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin since 2009 .

Freedberg was best known for his publications on psychological reactions to images, as well as for his work on the relationship between art and science. He deals with the importance of neuroscience for the understanding of art and images. Under his leadership, the Warburg Institute is to “again” focus more on the question of overcoming the contradictions between high and popular culture, the West and “the rest”.

Fonts (selection)

  • Rubens - the life of Christ after the passion . Miller, London 1984
  • Iconoclasm and painting in the revolt of the Netherlands. 1566-1609 . Garland, New York 1988, also: Dissertation, University of Oxford, 1972
  • The Power of Images. Studies in the History and Theory of Response. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1989
  • The play of the unmentionable. An installation by Joseph Kosuth at the Brooklyn Museum. Thames and Hudson, London 1992, pp. 31-69
  • The Eye of the Lynx. Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2003
  • Memory in Art. History and the Neurosciences of Response. In: S. Nalbantian, PM Matthews, JL McClelland (Eds.): The Memory Process. Neuroscientific and Humanistic Perspectives. Cambridge 2011, pp. 337-358
  • with Vittorio Gallese : Motion, Emotion and Empathy in Aesthetic Experience. In: Trends in Cognitive Science (TiCS). Volume 11, No. 5, 2007, pp. 197-203
  • Empathy, Motion and Emotion. In: Klaus Herding u. a. (Ed.): How emotions are expressed. Close-up emotions. Driesen, Taunusstein 2008, pp. 17–51

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ date of birth at Library of Congress ; Place of birth at Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin
  2. ↑ a b Jan Plamper : In conversation: David Freedberg , FAZ.net , April 7, 2015
  3. ^ Adam Gopnik : In the Memory Ward , in: The New Yorker , March 16, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Freedberg, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freedberg, David Adrian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African-American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Town , South African Union