Günter Brucher

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Günter Brucher (born January 19, 1941 in Graz ) is an Austrian art historian .

Life

Günter Brucher graduated from the teacher training college in Graz after graduating from high school. From 1964 to 1969 he studied art history at the Karl Franzens University in Graz . On February 12, 1969, he received his doctorate in philosophy on the subject of "The Facades of the Baroque Churches in Styria from 1690-1760". In the same year he passed the stage maturity test for opera singing in Graz. From 1969 to 1986 he worked at the Art History Institute of the University of Graz, where he completed his habilitation in 1972 and was appointed associate professor for Austrian art history in 1976. In 1986 he was appointed full professor of Austrian art history at the University of Salzburg , where he took over the post of director of the institute in 1988. In 2012, Brucher received the Wilhelm Hartel Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Works

  • The baroque ceiling painting in Styria . Graz 1973.
  • Color and light in Albrecht Altdorfer's Sebastian Altar in St. Florian . Graz 1978.
  • Baroque architecture in Austria . Cologne 1983.
  • The Decius Mus painting cycle by Peter Paul Rubens . Graz 1984.
  • On the problem of stylistic pluralism . Vienna 1985.
  • The sacred architecture of Italy in the 11th and 12th centuries . Cologne 1988.
  • Gothic architecture in Austria . Salzburg 1990.
  • The art of the baroque in Austria . Edited and author, Salzburg 1994.
  • Kandinsky. Paths to abstraction . (In particular consideration of the theoretical principles of the 20th century), Prestel-Verlag, Munich 1999.
  • History of the fine arts in Austria . Volume II GOTIK . Ed. And author, cooperation with the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Commission for Art History and the University of Salzburg, Art History Institute, Munich 2000.
  • Learning to see - using the example of W. Kandinsky. A contribution to art historical methodology . Munich 2001.
  • Still life painting from Chardin to Picasso. Dead things come to life . Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2006,
  • History of Venetian Painting, Vol. 1 . Böhlau 2007.
  • History of Venetian Painting, Vol. 2 . Böhlau 2010.
  • History of Venetian Painting, Vol. 3 . Böhlau 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Brucher, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz