Florentine Mütherich
Florentine Mütherich (born January 26, 1915 in Bestwig ; † June 12, 2015 in Munich ) was a German art historian who dealt particularly with the illumination of the early Middle Ages.
Live and act
After completing her doctorate in Berlin in 1940 with Wilhelm Pinder on the ornamentation of the Rhenish goldsmith's art in the Staufer era , she was initially a scholarship holder at the Central Institute for Art History in Munich from 1949 to 1954 , then until her retirement in 1980 she was a research assistant at the institute. Here she was co-editor of the art chronicle from 1954 to 1970 . In 1966 she became a lecturer at the University of Munich , and in 1969 she was appointed honorary professor there. From 1976 to 1982 she was visiting professor at Columbia University in New York , 1975 at Harvard , 1966 and 1971 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and 1983 at Oxford All Souls College .
Medieval book art was the focus of her research. Here she continued in particular the work The Carolingian miniatures founded by Wilhelm Koehler in 1930 , which was completed in 2013 with the eighth volume. She worked with Percy Ernst Schramm and Hermann Fillitz on the monuments of German kings and emperors , the first volume of which was published in 1962. The second volume followed in 1978, while the first came out again in a second edition in 1981.
Fonts (selection)
- The ornamentation of the Rhenish goldsmith's art in the Staufer period. Tritsch, Würzburg 1941 (= dissertation)
- with Joachim E. Gaehde: Carolingian book illumination. Prestel, Munich 1979. ISBN 3-7913-0395-3
- The Gospel Book of Otto III. Clm 4453 of the Bavarian State Library in Munich . Edited by Florentine Mütherich and Karl Dachs. Prestel, Munich, London, New York 2001, ISBN 978-3-7913-2431-9 .
- Psalterium Sancti Ruperti. Comment. With contributions by Fabrizio Crivello. Academic Printing and Publishing Institution, Graz 2007, ISBN 978-3-201-01892-0 .
- Studies in Carolingian manuscript illumination . The Pindar Press, London 2004, ISBN 1-899828-67-2 (= collected little writings).
literature
- Katharina Bierbrauer (Ed.): Studies on Medieval Art 800–1250. Festschrift for Florentine Mütherich on her 70th birthday. Prestel. Munich 1985, ISBN 978-3-7913-0735-0 (pp. 263-264 list of publications).
- François Avril : Florentine Mütherich (1915-2015). In: Francia , Vol. 43 (2016), pp. 453-455 ( online ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Florentine Mütherich in the catalog of the German National Library
- Dictionary of Art Historians
- Publications by Florentine Mütherich in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
- Central Institute for Art History mourns Prof. Dr. Florentine Mütherich
Remarks
- ↑ Florentine Mütherich, obituary notice . Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 17, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mütherich, Florentine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bestwig , Ruhr |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 2015 |
| Place of death | Munich |