Eberhard König (art historian)

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Roland Friedrich Werner Eberhard König (born June 17, 1947 in Grebenstein near Kassel ) is a German art historian.

Life

From 1966 to 1973 König studied art history, classical archeology, history and Egyptian art history in Bonn , Tübingen , Paris and Oxford . In 1975 he was in Bonn with a thesis on the French Illumination 1450 doctorate . From 1976 to 1981 he was Reiner Haussherr's research assistant at the University of Kiel and later in Berlin , where he completed his habilitation in 1983 with an unpublished work on "Designing and Illuminating the Earliest Prints of the Latin Bible". From 1986 to 2012 he was professor of Gothic and Renaissance art history at the Free University of Berlin .

His main research interests are medieval book and Renaissance painting .

In 1999 he received the Prix Eugène Carrière of the Académie française for the book about the " Très Belles Heures de Notre-Dame ". In 2009 he was appointed Chevalier dans l ' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres .

Fonts (selection)

  • French illumination around 1450: the Jouvenel painter, the painter of Boccaccio in Geneva and the beginnings of Jean Fouquet , Berlin 1982. (Bonn, University, dissertation 1975). ISBN 3-7861-1311-4 .
  • Les Heures de Marguerite d'Orléans, Reproduction intégrale du calendrier et des images du manuscrit latin 1156B de la Bibliothèque Nationale, translated by François Boespflug, Paris 1991. ISBN 9782204042635 .
  • The Viennese book of the dear heart and the painter Barthélemy d'Eyck, Graz 1996. ISBN 3-201-01651-9 .
  • The Très Belles Heures by Jean de France Duc de Berry: A masterpiece on the threshold of modern times, Munich / Lucerne 1998. ISBN 978-3-85672-068-1 .
  • (with contributions by Fedja Anzelewsky, Bodo Brinkmann and Frauke Steenbock) The Berlin Book of Hours of Maria of Burgundy and Emperor Maximilians, Lachen a. Lake Zurich 1998. ISBN 978-3-906597-03-4 .
  • (with Gabriele Bartz) The Book of Hours. The genre in manuscripts of the Vaticana, Stuttgart / Zurich 1998. ISBN 3-7630-5733-1 .
  • The Grandes Heures de Rohan. An aid to understanding the manuscript latin 9471 of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Simbach am Inn, 2006. ISBN 978-3-9810655-2-7 .
  • The Bedford Hours, Stuttgart / London 2007. ISBN 3-8062-2089-1 .
  • The genius of drawing. An unknown manuscript with 30 large illustrations by one of the Limburg brothers, Bibermühle 2016. ISBN 3-906069-19-2 .
  • The Berlin Gutenberg Bible, wbg Edition, Darmstadt 2018. ISBN 978-3-534-26998-3 .
  • Also editor, translator and author of numerous articles on German, Italian and French art history

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about Eberhard König on the website of the Free University of Berlin (Department of History and Cultural Studies, Art History Institute).
personal data
SURNAME King, Eberhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES König, Roland Friedrich Werner Eberhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Grebenstein near Kassel