Frank Neidhart Steigerwald

Frank Neidhart Steigerwald (born July 27, 1940 in Danzig ; † June 20, 2002 in Braunschweig ) was a German art historian .

Career

Steigerwald, son of the painter Lucia Steigerwald , studied art history at the University of Freiburg , among others with Martin Gosebruch , whom he followed in 1966 to the newly established chair for art history at the Technical University of Braunschweig . In 1972 he received his doctorate on the tomb of Heinrich the Lion and his wife in Braunschweig Cathedral , and in 1990 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Braunschweig with a monograph on Albrecht Dürer .

Steigerwald's research focus was on the Saxon Middle Ages, which is documented by a number of publications.

Publications (in selection)

• The master of the tomb of Friedrich von Wettin (1152f.) And his Brunswick lion monument (1166). In: Martin Gosebruch / Lorenz Dittmann (eds.): Argo. Festschrift for Kurt Badt on his 80th birthday on March 3, 1970, Cologne 1970, pp. 128–141
• The tomb of Heinrich the Lion and Mathilde in the Braunschweig Cathedral: a study of the figurative art of the early 13th century, especially the sculptural (= Braunschweiger Werkstücke , Volume 47), orphanage book printing and publishing house, Braunschweig 1969, DNB 482625376 (Dissertation Technical University Braunschweig 1972, 134, [32] pages, 89 illustrations, 24 cm DNB 730097064 )
• Dürer's early silver pen drawings in: Kunstgeschichtliche Gesellschaft zu Berlin (Ed.), Issue 24 of the New Series - October 1975 to June 1976, Berlin 1976, pp. 11–15
• On Cranach's drawings made in Vienna in: Kunstmuseum Basel (ed.): Files from the colloquium for the Basler Cranach exhibition 1974, Basel 1977, pp. 10–11
• Gugel, Giver and Frail Consoles; a contribution to costume and building sculpture of the Middle Ages. In: Low German contributions to art history, Vol. 18 (1979) pp. 43–92
• Clouds and Sea - The island of Sylt - Watercolors and drawings by Wolfgang Klähn. Tara Verlag pro paco, Braunschweig, 1982, ISBN 3-923378-11-4 .
• The Christ Life Cycle for the Cathedral of Otto the Great in Magdeburg. In: In honor of Martin Gosebruch. Festschrift on the occasion of his 65th birthday on June 20, 1984, Hirmer, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7774-3730-1 .
• The Brunswick Lion: riquin me fecit ?. in: The Braunschweiger Burglöwe. Report on a scientific symposium in Braunschweig from October 12 to 15, 1983 (series of publications by the Commission for Lower Saxony Building and Art History at the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft / 2), Göttingen 1985, pp. 109-134
• The Gospel Book of Henry the Lion. His cycle of pictures and his purpose for the Marien Altar of the Brunswick Cathedral in 1188. Offenbach 1985 ISBN 3766492136
• The dedication relief of the Magdeburg Cathedral of Otto the Great and the foundation of the Archdiocese of Magdeburg in 967: Otto Imperator, "vicus in ebore". In: Ernst Ullmann (Ed.): The Magdeburg Cathedral. Ottonian foundation and new Staufer building. Symposium from 7. – 11. October 1986 in Magdeburg (series of publications by the Commission for Lower Saxony Building and Art History at the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft / 5), Leipzig 1989, pp. 74–81
• Studies on Albrecht Dürer's art: On the “right measure”, human proportion and “comparisons” that we draw within ourselves. Habilitation thesis TU-Braunschweig, around 1990 (unprinted, typewritten copy in 3 volumes (1st text, 2nd comments, 3rd illustrations) in the University Library of Braunschweig)
• Hoc opus auctoris par nobile iunxit amoris ": Thoughts on the deed of foundation in the Gospel of Heinrich the Lion. In: Martin Gosebruch (Hrsg.): Helmarshausen and the Gospel of Heinrich the Lion. Report on a scientific symposium in Braunschweig and Helmarshausen from October 9th to 11th October 1985 (series of publications by the Commission for Lower Saxony Building and Art History at the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft / 4), Verlag Erich Goltze GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen 1992, ISBN 3-88452-257-4 , pp. 228–245
• The Goslar Imperial Throne. Place of installation, figurative program and date. in: Frank Steigerwald. (Ed.): Goslar: Bergstadt - Imperial City in History and Art; Report on a scientific symposium in Goslar from October 5 to 8, 1989. Göttingen 1993. (Series of publications by the Commission for Lower Saxony Building and Art History at the Braunschweig Scientific Society; 6), pp. 129–194
• Thoughts on the base system of the master of the Halberstadt triumphal cross system. in: Ernst Ullmann (Ed.): Halberstadt. Studies on the Cathedral and Church of Our Lady. Royalty and church as cultural bearers in the eastern Harz foreland - Halberstadt. Symposium of the Leipzig Chair for Art History and the Commission for Lower Saxony Building and Art History at the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, Halberstadt, October 7-10, 1991 (Series of publications by the Commission for Lower Saxony Building and Art History at the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft / 7), Berlin 1997, pp. 90-112

literature

• Thomas Gaedeke: Dürer and the Middle Ages - On the death of Frank Neidhart Steigerwald , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . 4th July 2002.