Ernst Ullmann

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Ernst Ullmann (born December 19, 1928 in Reichenberg-Franzendorf , ČSR ; † August 7, 2008 in Leipzig ) was a German art historian and from 1971 to 1993 full professor of art history at the University of Leipzig .

Life

The Ernst Ullmanns family had to leave their Bohemian homeland in 1946 and move to the Soviet occupation zone . Ullmann graduated from the workers 'and farmers' faculty in Halle in 1951 and began studying art history , history and archeology at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg. After graduation in 1956, he was a doctoral student at the same university and in 1960 with a thesis on the architecture of the Cistercian between the upper and middle Weser Elbe doctorate . The reviewers were Johannes Jahn and Hans-Joachim Mrusek . In the same year Ullmann became a senior research assistant at the Art History Institute of the University of Leipzig , to which he was a member until his retirement in 1993. He became a lecturer in art history in 1964 and completed his habilitation in 1967 with a study on August Schmarsow . In 1971 the Philosophical Faculty appointed him full professor for art history. Between 1964 and 1979 he held several management positions in the Institute of Art History and in the Cultural and Art Studies Section.

Ernst Ullmann was married and had three children.

Scientific work

Ullmann followed the example of his academic teacher and predecessor at the Leipzig chair Johannes Jahn and devoted research and teaching to Gothic architecture and the fine arts of the late Middle Ages and early modern times in Germany and Italy. His focus was the history of style, the artistic provenance and the artist biography. At conferences and in publications he also dealt with the influence of the Reformation on German art. Some of his monographs, most of which were published by EA Seemann Verlag Leipzig, saw several editions.

During a study visit to the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton (New Jersey) in 1984, Ullmann became aware of a manuscript that the emigrated German-Jewish art historian Paul Frankl had worked on until his death in 1962 and that had remained unpublished. Ullmann published the German manuscript in 1988 in Leipzig.

Ullmann's last years were overshadowed by an exhibition scandal. In 2001, in collaboration with the custodian of Leipzig University, Rainer Behrends , he prepared an exhibition with paintings by European artists from the 16th to 19th centuries from the property of the Ferenc and Palma Hamm couple's Limacon Foundation, which is registered in Switzerland . Although the origin and dating of some of the paintings had been questioned by experts for a long time, the exhibition opened on June 15, 2001. However, it aroused so much criticism that the university felt compelled to close the exhibition early and put the exhibition catalog out of circulation to pull. Some of the paintings were likely to have been made by imitators, if not counterfeits.

Ullmann was a member of the National Committee for Art History of the GDR (1968–1990), a member of the Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art (CIHA, since 1977), a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig (since 1981) and a corresponding member Member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society (since 1993).

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Gotik , Seemann-Verlag, Leipzig 1969; 4th ed., 1986; revised new edition 1994.
  • as editor: Albrecht Dürer - Art on the move . Lectures of the Art History Conference on the 500th birthday of Albrecht Dürer at the Karl Marx University Leipzig, May 31 to June 3, 1971, Karl Marx University Leipzig, Leipzig 1972.
  • with Elvira Pradel: Albrecht Dürer. Writings and letters (Reclams Universal Library 26), Reclam-Verlag, Leipzig 1978; 6th amended edition 1993; Verlag Das Europäische Buch, Berlin (West) 1984.
  • Leonardo da Vinci , Seemann-Verlag, 1980, 2nd edition 1998; Vollmer publishing house, Munich / Wiesbaden, 1981.
  • The world of the Gothic cathedral , Union-Verlag, Berlin 1981.
  • as publisher: History of German Art 1350-1470 , Seemann-Verlag, Leipzig 1981.
  • as publisher: Art and Reformation , Seemann-Verlag, Leipzig 1982, 2nd edition 1983.
  • as publisher: Raffael , Seemann-Verlag, Leipzig 1983, 3rd edition 1997.
  • as editor: On the power of images . Contributions to the CIHA colloquium "Art and Reformation" from 6. – 11. September 1982 in Eisenach, Seemann-Verlag, Leipzig 1983.
  • as publisher: History of German Art 1470-1550. Architecture and sculpture , Seemann-Verlag, Leipzig 1984.
  • Reformation and Iconoclasm . In: Browne, Ray [Ed.]: Journal of Popular Culture , Vol. 18 (1984) No. 3, p. 101-123.
  • as publisher: History of German Art 1470-1550. Painting, graphics, handicrafts , Seemann-Verlag, Leipzig 1985.
  • On the power of images - art and the Reformation (session reports of the SAW in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class, vol. 126, no.2), Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1985.
  • From romanticism to historicism. Architecture - style and meaning , Seemann-Verlag, Leipzig 1987 (essays).
  • as publisher: The Magdeburg Cathedral. Ottonian foundation and new Staufer building , symposium from 7th – 11th October 1986 in Magdeburg hosted by the Chair of Art History at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig (series of publications by the Commission for Lower Saxony Building and Art History at the Braunschweig Scientific Society, vol. 5.), Seemann-Verlag, Leipzig 1989.
  • The Munich Leonardo fragment and the main altar of the SS Annunziata in Florence (session reports of the SAW in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class, vol. 130, no.1), Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1990.
  • with Frank-Bernhard Müller: Bibliography on art history in Saxony 1955-1997 (treatises of the SAW on Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class, Vol. 77), Hirzel-Verlag, Stuttgart / Leipzig 2000.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All biographical information according to: Ernst Schubert , Ernst Ullmann (December 19, 1928 – August 7, 2008) . In: Yearbook of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig 2007–2008, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2009, pp. 83–85 (obituary); https://research.uni-leipzig.de/agintern/CPL/PDF/Ullmann_Ernst.pdf .
  2. ↑ Paul Frankl, On Questions of Style , ed. v. Ernst Ullmann, EA Seemann, Leipzig 1988. ISBN 3-363-00362-5 .
  3. ↑ Rainer Behrends (Ed.), From Raffael to Monet. Masterpieces of European painting from the Limacon collection (exhibition center Kroch-Haus, Leipzig June 15 to August 4, 2001), Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2001.
  4. ↑ FOCUS Online: Dark business. Retrieved August 8, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ullmann, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and professor of art history
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenberg-Franzendorf , ČSR
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 2008
Place of death Leipzig