Dietmar Popp

Dietmar Popp

Dietmar Popp (* 1963 ) is a German art historian with a focus on East Central Europe .

Education and professional career

Dietmar Popp studied art history , archeology and monument conservation at the Universities of Bamberg and Karlsruhe from 1982 to 1992 . After a doctoral scholarship at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome and participation in the local photo library as well as research stays in Florence and London , he received his doctorate in 1994 at the Technical University of Berlin with his thesis Duccio und die Antike. Studies on the conception and reception of antiquities in Sienese painting at the beginning of the 14th century . Following teaching assignments at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg and at the Philipps University in Marburg as well as activities in offices for cultural management as well as for architecture and urban development in Bayreuth , he was a research assistant at the humanities center for the history and culture of East Central Europe in Leipzig from 1999 to 2000 in the Jagiellonian project there. In 2000 he took over the management of the "Scientific Collections" department and the "Image Archive" at the Herder Institute in Marburg . Since then he has been responsible for several international cooperation projects, including above all the long-term project for the “ Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland” (expanded in 2018 to include the Baltic countries for the “Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in East Central Europe”) and the development of the “Research Infrastructure for Art Monuments in East Central Europe (FoKO) ”.

Popp's work focuses on late medieval and early modern art in Central Europe, artistic and cultural relations between Germany and Poland in the 18th and 19th centuries, art and cultural history collections and museums in Poland and the Baltic States, as well as documentation and digitization of cultural heritage in East Central Europe.

Memberships

• Chairman of the board of the Böckler-Mare-Balticum-Stiftung, previously board member and board of trustees
• Member of the board of the "Association for the Promotion of International and Interdisciplinary Hanseatic Research"
• Member of the advisory board of "Art and Culture of the Hanseatic Cities"
• Member of the scientific association for the continuation of the art topographical work of Georg Dehio eV
• Member of the advisory board of the working group of German and Polish art historians and preservationists

Awards

• 2017: Awarding of the Silver Cross of the Małopolska Voivodeship (Śrebrna Odznaka Honorowa Województwa Małopolskiego - Krzyż Małopolski) for long-term efforts to protect the cultural heritage of Lesser Poland
• 2012: Bronze medal for special merits in cooperation with the University of Wrocław
• 2009: Award in the Sybilla competition 2008 of the Polish Ministry of Culture in the category “Scientific Publication” (together with Ewa Barylewska-Szymańska, Elke Bauer and Wojciech Szymański) for “Otto Rollenhagen. Investigation and description of the Gdansk town houses with a special representation of the buildings from the Gothic period to the late Renaissance / Otto Rollenhagen. Analiza i opis gdańskich kamienic mieszczańskich ze szczególnym uwzlednieniem budowli z czasów od gotyku do późnego renesansu. Edited by Ewa Barylewska-Szymańska, Elke Bauer, Dietmar Popp and Wojciech Szymański. Marburg / Gdańsk 2008 ".

Fonts (selection)

Editorships

• Together with Piotr Korduba (Ed.): Re-Konstruktionen. City, space, museum. Re-Konstrukcje. Miasto, przestrzeń, muzeum, Warszawa 2019 (The Common Cultural Heritage / Wspólne Dziedzictwo, vol / t. 11).
• Together with Wojciech Bałus, Sławomir Brzezicki and Joanna Wolańska (eds.): Zabytki Sztuki w Polsce. Małopolska [Art treasures in Poland. Lesser Poland], Warszawa 2016 (German edition: Dehio-Handbuch der Kunstdenkmäler in Polen. Lesser Poland. Herder Institute and others, in preparation).
• Ernst Stewner. A German photographer in Poland / Niemiecki fotograf Polski. Exhibition catalog. Edited by Piotr Korduba and Dietmar Popp, Marburg 2014 (materials on art, culture and history of East Central Europe, vol. 3).
• Visual cultures of remembrance and historical constructions in Germany and Poland since 1939. Wizualne Konstrukcje historii i pamięci historycznej w Niemczech iw Polsce po 1939 r. Edited by Dieter Bingen, Peter Oliver Loew and Dietmar Popp. Warszawa 2009 (The common cultural heritage / Wspólne Dziedzictwo, vol / part 5).
• Otto Rollehagen. Investigation and description of Gdańsk town houses. Otto Rollehagen. Analiza i opis gdańskich kamienic mieszczańskich. With contributions by Ewa Barylewska-Szymańska, Elke Bauer and Wojciech Szymański. Edited by Ewa Barylewska-Szymańska, Elke Bauer, Dietmar Popp and Wojciech Szymański. Marburg-Gdańsk 2008.

Web links

• Employee profile page of the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe
• Böckler-Mare-Balticum-Stiftung , previously board member and board member
• " Association for the Promotion of International and Interdisciplinary Hanseatic Research "
• Network "Art and Culture of the Hanseatic Cities"
• Scientific association for the continuation of the art topographical work of Georg Dehio eV
• Working group of German and Polish art historians and monument preservation advisory board member