Ellen Spickernagel

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Ellen Spickernagel (* 1941 ) is a German art historian with a focus on gender studies and an emeritus professor .

life and work

Spickernagel studied art history, German and Archeology in Münster and Vienna , prompting them with a thesis on the Dutch landscape before Pieter Bruegel doctorate was.

She was curator at the Städelschen Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main from 1974 to 1979. This was followed by an activity as an academic adviser at the Oberstufenkolleg of Bielefeld University . From 1995 until her retirement, she taught as a professor for art history at the Institute for Art Education at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen .

“Feminist and art studies focus on the question of female aesthetics. It is discussed whether gender determines personal experience so significantly that a specifically feminine form of expression in content and structure emerges from it. And if this is recognized as a premise, what are the characteristics of female art. "

- Ellen Spickernagel

Spickernagel published several times in Critical Reports , a specialist journal for art history, which is published by the professional association for German-speaking art historians Ulmer Verein .

The nationwide network Women in the History of Garden Culture was launched in 1999 on the initiative of the art historian Gerlinde Volland. In 2005, Spickernagel hosted a conference entitled KunstGartenKunst at the Institute for Art Education at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . Spickernagel gave a lecture on the subject of gardens as the work of contemporary artists .

Ellen Spickernagel dedicated her study The Progress of Animals to the field of Animal Studies .

Works

  • The Descendence of the Small Landscapes: Studies on the Development of a Form of the Dutch Landscape Image before Pieter Bruegel. Dissertation. Munster 1971.
  • Heroes like tender boys or girls in disguise . On the concept of androgyny in Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Angelika Kauffmann . In: Renate Berger among others: Women-Femininity-Script. (Argument special volume AS 134, new part 14). Berlin 1985, pp. 99-118.
  • History and gender: the feminist approach. In: Hans Belting , Heinrich Dilly u. a .: Art history - an introduction. Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-496-01387-7 , pp. 264-282.
  • Great in grief. The female lament for dead heroes in history pictures of the 18th century. In: slave or citizen. Exhibition catalog. Frankfurt 1989 (on David's oath of the Horatians )
  • Unwanted activity. The housewife and the modern way of living. In: Critical Reports. 4/1992.
  • From Qalqiliya to Kassel. Peter Friedl's Giraffe at Documenta XII. In: Ursula Frohne , Jutta Held: Political Art Today. V&R Unipress, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89971-389-3 , pp. 159-161.
  • The progress of the animals: Representations in menageries and in the art of the 17th-19th centuries Century. 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20454-9 .
  • with Brigitte Walbe: The Museum. Place of learning versus temple of the muses . Special volume of the journal Kritischeberichte. ISBN 3-87038-042-X .
  • with Sascha Roesler, Antonia Ulrich, Friedrich Weltzien, Julia Bodenburg, Jonathan Burt, Catherine Clover, Maximilian Haas, and Susanne Heiter: Animality and Aesthetics: Animal Studies. 2012, ISBN 978-3-943414-01-1 .
  • Help the eye on the jumps. Huntable animals and hunts with Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767). In: Annette Bühler-Dietrich u. Michael Weingarten (Ed.), Topos Animal: New designs of the animal-human relationship. Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-2860-9 , pp. 103–123.

literature

  • Christiane Keim, Ulla Merle, Christina Threuter: Visual representation and social reality . Image, gender and space in art history, dedicated to the art historian Ellen Spickernagel. Centaurus-Verlag, Herbolzheim 2001, ISBN 3-8255-0335-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uni Giessen members Ellen Spickernagel ( Memento from March 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Women Art Science Biography Ellen Spickernagel
  3. ↑ from history and gender The feminist approach
  4. ↑ Women in the history of garden culture
  5. ↑ Petra Lange-Berndt: Ellen Spickernagel: The progress of the animals.
personal data
SURNAME Cheat nail, Ellen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1941