Franz-Joachim Verspohl

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Franz-Joachim Verspohl (born April 1, 1946 in Altenberge ; † February 4, 2009 in Jena ) was a German art historian .

Live and act

Studies, doctorate, habilitation and teaching

Verspohl studied from 1968 at the universities of Munich , Cologne and Marburg the subjects sociology , psychology , archeology , philosophy and art history . In 1974 he gained in Marburg with Martin Warnke the Promotion Dr. phil. with work stages. The arena in the social field of tension from antiquity to the present . In 1975 he went to the University of Osnabrück , where he worked as a research assistant until 1986 and received his habilitation here in 1984. In the years from 1980 to 1984 he held various teaching positions at the universities of Hamburg (1981 to 1982), Stuttgart (1983 to 1984) and Marburg. In 1986 he was appointed professor of art history at the University of Osnabrück. From 1989 he accepted a position at the University of Dortmund , where he taught until 1993.

New establishment in Jena

From 1992 to 1993 Verspohl moved to Budapest as a fellow at the Collegium Budapest , Institute for Advanced Study. In 1993 he went to Jena and took over the chair for art history at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . His first activity was connected with the founding and development of the art history seminar. He set the focus of his work with the art of the Renaissance in Italy and Hungary, the Bibliotheca Corviniana in Buda , the works of art of the present and the art of the twentieth century. With the lifelong occupation of the art of the Renaissance, he developed a special affection for sculpture .

Exhibitions and publications

In addition to his university activities, he also brought highly regarded exhibitions to Jena, such as the exhibition on Paul Klee in Jena in 1924 in the Jena City Museum (1999) and on Frank Stella in 2001. On the occasion of the award of an honorary doctorate to Imi Knoebel , he organized the Pictor Laureatus exhibition in 2006 . In honor of Imi Knoebel. Works from 1966 to 2006 in Jena. He dedicated special studies in the field of contemporary art to Joseph Beuys and WOLS . In publications he went on the works of Michelangelo Buonarroti and Giovanni Dalmata . During his stays in Hungary, where he also stayed from 1998 to 1999, he examined the country's newly discovered art contributions to the Renaissance.

Fonts (selection)

  • On the bourgeois ideology of art history. with Horst Bredekamp , in: tendenzen. 65 (1970), p. 6.
  • Autonomy and Partisanship: “Aesthetic Practice” in the Phase of Imperialism. In: Michael Müller et al .: Autonomy of Art. On the gense and criticism of a bourgeois category. Frankfurt / Main 1972, 1974, pp. 199-230.
  • On the criticism of the artist's ideology in the first half of the 19th century. The early drought celebrations. with Jürgen Fredel, In: Marburger Jahrbuch. 19: 275-287 (1974).
  • Optical and tactile function of art. The change in the concept of art in the age of mass reception. In: Critical Reports. 3/1 (1975), pp. 25-43.
  • Conclusions from an analysis of painting in German fascism. with Horst Bredekamp, ​​In: Aesthetics and Communication. 19: 91-95 (1975).
  • Stages. The arena in the social field of tension from antiquity to the present. Casting 1976.
  • Stadium buildings from antiquity to the present: direction and self-awareness of the masses. Goettingen 1976.
  • Politics and culture in Italy: Documents of the Italy Symposium at the University of Osnabrück November 1978. with Walter Fähnders and Lothar Knapp, Osnabrück 1979
  • Questions about method and didactics. In: Legumes. 11 (June) 1980, pp. 30-32.
  • Michelangelo and Machiavelli . The David in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence. In: Städel yearbook. NF 7 (1981), pp. 204-246.
  • Joseph Beuys. Das Kapital Raum 1970–77, strategies for reactivating the senses . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1984, ISBN 3-596-23906-0
  • Cities of the Olympics - Olympic Cities. In: Praxis Geographie. 7: 42-49 (1984).
  • Funkkolleg Kunst / Kollegstunde 15 - The square as a political total work of art. Weinheim 1985.
  • The square as a political total work of art. Broadcast: February 11, 1985 to February 17, 1985, Saarbrücken 1985.
  • Cesar Klein . Paintings, sets, drawings. with Inge Frankmöller, 1986.
  • Johann Conrad Schlaun . An architect between Baroque and Regency. The Clemenswerth Hunting Lodge in Sögel . In: Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History. 60: 65-68 (1988).
  • Fascination and violence of the fascist amphitheater and the Berlin Reichssportfeld . In: Thomas Alkemeyer (Ed.): Olympia - Berlin. Violence and Myth in the Olympic Games in Berlin 1936. 1990, pp. 27–34.
  • How to deal with the myth. Joseph Beuys and Anselm Kiefer - Two Models of the Critique of Aesthetic Consciousness. In: New Rundschau. 101, No. 3 (1990), pp. 79-85.
  • The Osnabrück Castle: city residence, villa, administrative headquarters. with Ansgar Westermayer, Bramsche 1991.
  • Modern art: the Funkkolleg to understand contemporary art. with Monika Wagner and Hubertus Gaßner , Reinbek 1991.
  • Michelangelo's Moses. In: Städel yearbook. NF 13 (1991), pp. 155-176.
  • Hartmut Girke: Painting 1990-93. Bramsche 1992.
  • In honor of Emil Schumacher. Dortmund 1992.
  • The modern age on the test bench. Polock, Wols, Giacometti. In: Monika Wagner (Ed.): Modern Art. 2. Reinbek 1996, pp. 523-532.
  • Felix Droese: Hölderlin column, The Blue Wonder or the wrong use of words, From the fratricidal war. Jena 1996.
  • Wols. Cologne 1998.
  • Hodler's reception in Germany. In: Rudolf Koella (Ed.): Ferdinand Hodler . 1999, pp. 195-203.
  • Michelangelo, Moses: the word and the image. Frankfurt 2001.
  • Michelangelo Buonarroti and Niccolò Machiavelli. The David, the Piazza, the Republic. Stämpfli Verlag, Bern / Manzsche, ISBN 3-7272-9954-1 ; Publishing and University Bookstore Vienna, Bern / Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-214-00251-1 .
  • Carl Ludwig Fernows Winckelmann: his edition of the works. Stendal 2004.
  • Michelangelo Buonarroti and Pope Julius II: Moses - military leader, legislator, muse leader. Göttingen 2004.
  • Michelangelo Buonarroti and Leonardo da Vinci , Republican everyday life and artist competition in Florence between 1501 and 1505. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, ISBN 978-3-8353-0216-7 ; Stämpfli Verlag, Göttingen / Bern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7272-2738-7 .
  • Pictor Laureate. In honor of Imi Knoebel . Works from 1966 to 2006 , Verlag der Buchhandlung König, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-8656-0096-7 .

literature

  • RESEARCH MAGAZINE. Friedrich Schiller University JENA . Alma Mater Jenensis, summer semester 1995, ISSN  0946-7688
  • Frank Stella: Obeying Verspohl. Friedrich Schiller University Jena 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vita ( Memento from December 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Verspohl, Franz-Joachim (1946–2009) , thulb.uni-jena.de
  3. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholarly Calendar 2009, Munich 2009, p. 4366
  4. ↑ AK: Franz-Joachim Verspohl is dead. Art history has lost an important man. , art-magazin.de, web.archive
  5. ↑ RESEARCH MAGAZINE. Friedrich Schiller University Jena . Alma Mater Jenensis, summer semester 1995, p. 27
  6. ↑ Michael Diers: From Michelangelo to Beuys. On the death of the art historian Franz-Joachim Verspohl, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 10, 2009
  7. ^ DW: Farewell: Franz-Joachim Verspohl, art historian. , welt.de, welt-print
  8. ^ Franz-Joachim Verspohl: Pictor Laureatus. In honor of Imi Knoebel. Works from 1966 to 2006 , Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-86560-096-7
personal data
SURNAME Verspohl, Franz-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenberge
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 2009
Place of death Jena