Ernst Seidl (art historian)

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Ernst Seidl (2016)

Ernst Seidl (born February 13, 1961 in Nittenau , Upper Palatinate , Bavaria ) is a German art historian , university professor and museologist . He is director of the Museum of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen ( Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT ) and works scientifically on museology, modern architectural history , portraits, object science and university collections.

Life

Ernst Seidl grew up as the youngest of several siblings in Diepenried near Nittenau in eastern Bavaria . He put his 1981 high school and studied from 1982 to 1989 art history, Romance studies and folklore at the university in Regensburg , Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main . Seidl finished his studies with a Magister Artium . Between 1990 and 1996 Seidl worked at the Graduate School Political Iconography at the University of Hamburg, first as a scholarship holder and then as a research assistant (coordinator) at Martin Warnke . In 1994 he received his doctorate from Klaus Herding (University of Frankfurt am Main) with a study on the Grande Arche in La Défense (Paris) and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy ( Dr. phil. ).

Ernst Seidl completed his habilitation in 2004 in the subject of art history at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the University of Tübingen with the subject axis as a sign. An urban type of space and its meaning as a form of memory . He then worked as a private lecturer (PD). After substituting professorships at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the University of Stuttgart and working as an exhibition curator and research assistant at the House of History Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart, Seidl took over the management of the museum at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen MUT as director in 2008. In 2011 he was appointed adjunct professor and became a member of the working group of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bonn / Berlin) for the preparation of recommendations for scientific university collections. In 2015 he became full professor for museology at the Art History Institute of the University of Tübingen. At the same time, he set up the profile line “Museum & Collections” as a focus course within the framework of the master’s courses of currently nine cultural-historical and art-historical subjects. In 2016 Ernst Seidl became a professor at the Art History Institute of the University of Tübingen, while he continues to be the director of the central facility MUT of the University of Tübingen. He turned down the call to the position of director of the Senckenberg Naturmuseum Frankfurt am Main in autumn 2019, as well as to the position of director for collections and research at the German Historical Museum, Zeughaus Berlin, in 2015/16

Research priorities and methods

Ernst Seidl's research focus was initially in the area of ​​modern and contemporary, especially French, architectural history; For several years he has been working intensively on the entire spectrum of museology. Above all, the university collections as a resource for research and teaching, as well as collection research in general, are on Seidl's scientific agenda. He also researches things as knowledge media, political architecture, building and spatial typology and urban structures . Methodically, he orients himself on iconography , the structural issues of space and, above all, on practical museology. The focus of his work is currently the dualism between object science approaches versus image science.

Other functions and offices

Ernst Seidl is a board member of the Guernica Society in Karlsruhe, the Tübingen Art History Society and the Friends of the Museum in Hohentübingen Castle . He is also a founding member and board member of the Society for University Collections eV in Berlin and the Friends of MUT. Society for the promotion of the Museum of the University of Tübingen and member of both the Excellence Platform 4 of the University of Tübingen and the commission for the establishment of the Tübingen Center for Advanced Studies (TüCAS). Seidl is also a reviewer for the Fund for Scientific Research Austria , the Lower Saxony state government and the Ministry for Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg (MWK). In 2016 he was appointed to the Advisory Council on the Cultural Property Protection Act of the MWK Baden-Württemberg and in 2017 to the Advisory Board of the University's Drawing Institute and the Board of Trustees of the University of Tübingen's newly developed Invited Artist Program, and on December 12, 2019, he became a full member for a three-year term of the honorary committee of the University of Tübingen.

Works (selection)

Book series

  • Writings of the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT (published by the Rector of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Bernd Engler , and Ernst Seidl), founded in 2012, published so far: 19 volumes, 3 in progress.
  • Small monographs by MUT (edited by Ernst Seidl and Frank Duerr), founded in 2014, published so far: 9 volumes, 7 in progress.
  • Young forum for collection and object research (edited by Ernst Seidl, Frank Steinheimer, Cornelia Weber), founded in 2017, published so far: 3 volumes, 2 in progress.
  • Invited Artist of the University of Tübingen (edited by Ernst Seidl), founded in 2018, published so far: 2 volumes, 1 in progress.

Monographs and editorships

  • Architecture as a political culture. Philosophia practica, Berlin: Reimer (ed. With H. Hipp, 340 p., 110 fig.) 1996.
  • La Grande Arche in Paris. Form - Power - Sense (Phil. Diss., Univ. Frankfurt / Main), Hamburg: Kovač (380 p., 120 fig.) 1998.
  • Portrait and image. The portrait between intention and reception , Cologne / Weimar / Vienna: Böhlau (ed. With A. Köstler, 352 p., 198 fig.) 1998.
  • “Ready for allocation” - Bausparer stories from the south-west (exhibition cat., House of History Baden-Württemberg, editorial office), Stuttgart 2005.
  • Lexicon of building types - forms and functions of architecture , Stuttgart: Reclam (600 pp., Ill.), 2006, 2012.
  • "Jud Süß" - propaganda film in the Nazi state (exhibition cat., House of History Baden-Württemberg), Stuttgart 2007.
  • The mammoth from Vogelherd. Tübingen finds of the oldest preserved works of art , Tübingen: MUT (ed. With Nicholas J. Conard , 52 p., Approx. 60 figs.), 2008, ISBN 978-3-9812736-0-1 .
  • Body knowledge. Knowledge between Eros and Disgust , Tübingen: MUT, 2009, ISBN 978-3-9812736-1-8 .
  • Philipp Melanchthon. Its importance for church and theology, education and science , Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchner, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7887-2464-1 .
  • From student of Burse to "Germany's teacher". Philipp Melanchthon in Tübingen , Tübingen, 2010, ISBN 978-3-941818-00-2 .
  • The sky. Ideal image and understanding of the world , Tübingen: MUT, 2011, ISBN 978-3-9812736-2-5 .
  • Artist for students. Pictures of the university drawing teachers 1780–2012 , Tübingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-941818-13-2 .
  • Treasures from Hohentübingen Castle. Selected objects from the collections of the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT . Writings of the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT, Volume 1. Tübingen: MUT, 2012, ISBN 978-3-9812736-4-9 .
  • How beautiful creates knowledge . Writings of the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT, Volume 3. Tübingen: MUT, 2013, ISBN 978-3-9812736-6-3 .
  • La Défense - "Métro, boulot, dodo" (text: E. Seidl, photographs: G. Vogler), Berlin: disadorno, 2013, ISBN 978-3-941959-04-0 .
  • Lead story. Cover stories of German magazines . Writings of the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT, Volume 5. Tübingen: MUT, 2014, ISBN 978-3-9812736-8-7 .
  • Treasures of Hohentübingen Castle . Writings of the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT, Volume 4. Tübingen: MUT, 2014 (English), ISBN 978-3-9816616-3-7 .
  • Research - teaching - injustice. The University of Tübingen under National Socialism . Writings of the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT, Volume 9. Tübingen: MUT, 2015 ISBN 978-3-9816616-5-1 .
  • Where to put it? Science flotsam . Writings of the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT, Volume 10. Tübingen: MUT, 2015, ISBN 978-3-9816616-6-8 .
  • Visible collections. Discourses and documents of the project "MAM | MUT" . Writings of the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT, Volume 11. Tübingen: MUT, 2016, ISBN 978-3-9816616-9-9 .
  • Illness as an art (form). Moulages of medicine . Writings of the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT, Volume 12. Tübingen: MUT, 2016, ISBN 978-3-9817947-0-0 .
  • Museums + collections of the University of Tübingen . Writings of the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT, Volume 14. Tübingen: MUT, 2016, ISBN 978-3-9817947-4-8 .
  • Toni. Story (s) of a woman , Tübingen: MUT, 2016 (240 pages), ISBN 978-3-9817947-3-1 .
  • Origins. Steps of humanity / origins. Steps of Humankind . Writings of the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT, Volume 15.Tübingen: MUT, 2017, ISBN 978-3-9817947-9-3 .
  • Material culture in university and non-university collections. Young Forum for Collection and Object Research, Volume 1 (ed. With F. Steinheimer, C. Weber, 124 pages); Online HU Berlin, 2017: https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/19147 .
  • Math with models. Alexander von Brill and the Tübingen model collection . Writings of the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT, Volume 16. Tübingen: MUT, 2018, ISBN 978-3-9819182-0-5 .
  • "I cannot be not beautiful". Invited Artist Mohammad Ghazali (German / English). Invited Artist of the University of Tübingen, Volume 1, Tübingen: MUT, 2018, ISBN 978-3-9819182-3-6 .
  • Object cultures of visualization. Young Forum for Collection and Object Research, Volume 2 (ed. With F. Steinheimer, C. Weber, 108 pages); Online HU Berlin, 2018.
  • Ex machina. Leonardo da Vinci's machines between science and art , writings of the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT, Volume 18.Tübingen: MUT, 2019, ISBN 978-3-9819182-7-4 .
  • Down to business! Object scientific approaches to collection research . Young Forum for Collection and Object Research, Volume 3 (ed. With F. Steinheimer, C. Weber, 124 pages); Online HU Berlin, 2019.

Articles (selection)

  • A note on the building history of the Gare d'Orsay in Paris , in: Architectura. Journal for the History of Architecture, No. 2/92, pp. 179–192, 1993.
  • Grand Ax - Paris , in: Via Triumphalis. Historical landscape on Unter den Linden between Friedrich-Denkmal and Schloßbrücke (edited by H. Engel, W. Ribbe), Berlin: Akademie, pp. 131–145, 1997.
  • The paradox and its image: François Mitterrand's state portrait in: Portrait and Image. The portrait between intention and reception (edited by A. Köstler, E. Seidl), Cologne / Weimar / Vienna: Böhlau, pp. 335–349, 1998.
  • Grands Projets: Grande Nation? Mitterrand's Art of Politics , in: Symbols and Rituals of the Political. Eastern and Western Europe in comparison (edited by A. Pribersky and B. Unfried), Frankfurt am Main: Lang, pp. 239-254, 1999.
  • The spaces, the art and the criticism. About the increasing emancipation of the review from their exhibition , in: The Weimarer Bilderstreit . Scenes from an exhibition. A documentation, Weimar: Verlag für Geisteswissenschaften, pp. 319–328, 2000.
  • Transitionally, transhistorically, or: the chamois in front of the Alpine panorama . Vienna School and the Future of Art History , in: Kunsthistoriker aktuell. Announcements from the Austrian Association of Art Historians, No. 4, pp. 1–2, 2002.
  • Expansion of the tolerance zone or between aura and excess. CAAD and its influence on the aesthetic development and perception of contemporary architecture , in: Karl Möseneder, Gosbert Schüßler (ed.): "Meaning in the pictures". Festschrift for Joerg Traeger on his 60th birthday , Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, pp. 381–398, 2002.
  • The Museum Island space : Akropolis , Agora and axis in the focus of urban perspectives , in: Introduction to Art History (edited by Th. Hensel and A. Köstler), Berlin: Reimer, pp. 2–3, 2005.
  • “Urban identity” through sculptural buildings? On the phenomenon of architectural borrowings across art borders , in: Paul Sigel, Bruno Klein (ed.): Constructions of urban identity. Quotation and reconstruction in contemporary architecture and urban development, Berlin, pp. 125–145, 2006.
  • Generic problems? Comments on architectural sculpture in the Karlsruhe urban space , in: Art and Architecture in Karlsruhe. Festschrift for Norbert Schneider (edited by K. Büttner, M. Papenbrock), Karlsruhe, pp. 155–168, 2006.
  • Destruction phenomena in architecture: atectonics instead of deconstruction , in: Bettina Paust, Johannes Bilstein, Peter M. Lynen, Hans Peter Thun (eds.): Building - Destroying. Phenomena and Processes of Art, Oberhausen, pp. 57–68, 2007.
  • Political type of space. An introduction to a neglected category , in: Ernst Seidl: Politische Raumtypen (Jb. Der Guernica-Gesellschaft 11), Göttingen, pp. 9–19, 2009.
  • The portrait of the city. Views of Tübingen from the south , in: E. Blattner, K. Wiegmann: Stadtbild - Weltbild, Tübingen, pp. 13-19, 2009.
  • Under the linden trees of the Champs-Elysées . Axes and their breaks as symbolic forms , in: Nanni Baltzer, Philipp Ursprung (ed.): Art history on the move. Festschrift for Kurt W. Forster, Zurich 2010, pp. 298–312.
  • COURAGE to “body knowledge”! Tasks and strategies of the museum of the University of Tübingen , in: Cornelia Weber, Klaus Mauersberger (ed.): University museums and collections in everyday university life. Tasks - concepts - perspectives. Contributions to the symposium from 18. – 20. February 2010 at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Berlin 2010, pp. 119–126, 2011.
  • “What is an anti-Semitic film?” About a controversial category , in: Antisemitism in Film, Stuttgart: HdG, pages 19–31, 2011.
  • Art and Wunderkammer and Portrait , in: Stefan Jordan, Jürgen Müller: Lexikon der Kunstwissenschaft, Stuttgart, pp. 214–217; 266-26, 2012.
  • Beautiful gigolo - poor baron ... , in: In private. Languages ​​of the portrait (published by the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe), Bielefeld: Kerber, pp. 264–269, 2013.
  • New subjects - new building types? University buildings from the imperial era , in: Company Library. 100 Years Old University Library (edited by K. Söllner, J. Hennecke), Erlangen: FAU University Press, pp. 17–32, 2014.
  • Saving collections. Depositing, inventorying and exhibiting with students , in: C. Nawa, E. Seidl (ed.): Where to? Strandgut der Wissenschaft, Tübingen: MUT, pp. 11–14, 2015.
  • Delightful horror. Moulages as research, teaching and exhibition objects, in: Edgar Bierende, Peter Moos, Ernst Seidl (ed.): Illness as (art) form. Moulagen der Medizin, Tübingen 2016, pp. 10–15, 2016.
  • The Museum and Collections of the University of Tübingen: Opportunities, Challenges, Perspectives , in: Ernst Seidl (ed.): Museums + Collections of the University of Tübingen, Tübingen: MUT, 2016, pp. 16–26.
  • Preserve and use treasures. The Museum of the University of Tübingen , in: Tübinger Blätter, 104th year, 2018 (published in 2017), pp. 103-106.
  • The models, Brill and the project , in: E. Seidl, F. Loose, E. Bierende (eds.): Mathematics with models. Alexander von Brill and the Tübingen model collection, Tübingen: MUT, 2018, pp. 18–33.
  • Materialized theory - objectified aesthetics. The mathematical models as phenomena of art , in: E. Seidl, F. Loose, E. Bierende (eds.): Mathematics with models. Alexander von Brill and the Tübingen model collection, Tübingen: MUT, 2018, pp. 133–153
  • Eminent potentials and ethical problems. Examples of how to deal with human remains from MUT , in: Sandra Mühlenberend, Jakob Fuchs, Vera Marušic (eds.): Immediate handling of human remains in museums and university collections. Statements and case studies, 2018, pp. 141–152 (https://wissenschaftliche-sammlungen.de/files/1815/4469/5645/Unmittelbaren-Umgang-mit-menschlichen-berresten-in-Museen-und-Universittssammlungen.pdf) .
  • Everything 'e' or what? From the iDee to reality in university museums (with F. Dürr and K. Dipold), in: Postref / Preref. Exhibiting the future (scenography volume DASA Dortmund, edited by G. Isenbort), Dortmund 2019, pp. 54–57
  • Thinking while doing. The drawing as a medium of research , in: E. Seidl, F. Dürr, M. La Corte (eds.): Ex Machina. Leonardo da Vinci's machines between science and art, Tübingen: MUT, 2019, pp. 42–49
  • Collecting as a knowledge machine. Leonardo's encyclopedic art , in: E. Seidl, F. Dürr, M. La Corte (eds.): Ex Machina. Leonardo da Vinci's machines between science and art, Tübingen: MUT, 2019, pp. 50–55
  • Down to business! Object-scientific approaches to collection research , in: E. Seidl, F. Steinheimer, C. Weber: To the matter! Object scientific approaches to collection research. Young Forum for Collection and Object Research, Volume 3; Online HU Berlin, 2019 (published 2020), pp. 9–13
  • Balance on the horizon of expectations: The urbanistic experience space of the axis , in: C. Zumbusch, E. Goebel (ed.): Balance: Figures of Equilibrium in Cultural Studies, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2020, pp. 205–216

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personal data
SURNAME Seidl, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Nittenau , Upper Palatinate, Bavaria