Gerhard Bott (art historian)

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Gerhard Bott (2013)

Gerhard Bott (born October 14, 1927 in Hanau ) is a German art historian and historian . He was also the director of various important museums.

Life

Gerhard Bott was born as the son of the Hanau grammar school teacher and local researcher Heinrich Bott and his wife Trudel, born. Hüglin, born. Bott was a student at the High State School in Hanau, served as an air force helper and finally passed his Abitur in 1946 at the Augustiner grammar school in Friedberg . He then studied art history and history at the University of Frankfurt am Main . He finished this in 1950 with a doctorate on the founding of cities in the Wetterau and in the Kinzigtal . In 1950/51 he was a scientific volunteer at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg and in 1951/52 he received a scholarshipat the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome.

From 1952 to 1956 Bott worked as a curator at the Historical Museum in Frankfurt am Main, then until 1960 as its director. He began the reconstruction of the museum with the wing on the banks of the Main. From 1960 he headed the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt . Here he initiated the Art Nouveau department, integrated Karl Ströher's Pop Art collection , organized exhibitions on contemporary art and was the publisher of the magazine Kunst in Hessen and am Mittelrhein . He was a member of the documenta council at documenta III , the 4th documenta and documenta 5 . In 1971/72 he worked again for art historical research at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, but then returned to Darmstadt.

From 1975 he worked as director of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne and as general director of the museums of the city of Cologne. Here he incorporated the Peter Ludwig collection and established the Museum Ludwig . In 1980 he switched to the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg as general director . He retired from this position in 1993. The extension of the Germanic National Museum was built under his leadership.

In 1996 Bott, together with his wife Katharina , oversaw the exhibition Vice versa. German painters in America - American painters in Germany, 1813–1913 in the German Historical Museum in Berlin, where he was also a member of the expert commission from 1976 to 2010. He is married to the art historian Katharina Bott. From 2010 to 2012 he and his wife were urban historians in their native Hanau.

Bott taught at the University of Cologne , the University of Bochum , the University of Bamberg and the University of Klagenfurt and has been honorary professor for art history at the University of Erlangen since 1983 . Gerhard Bott has three sons.

Honors

Memberships

Publications

Overview

  • Sebastian Bott, Tobias Bott, Kornelius Bott: Gerhard Bott on his 75th birthday [list of publications 1949–2002]. [Private printing] Berlin 2002.
  • Richard Schaffer-Hartmann: Gerhard Bott - art historian, museum director, author . In: Hanauer Geschichtsverein (ed.): Gerhard Bott 90 . Cocoon. Hanau 2017, ISBN 978-3-86314-361-9 , pp. 13–43.
  • Richard Schaffer-Hartmann: Gerhard Bott - Directory of his publications 1949–2016 . In: Hanauer Geschichtsverein (ed.): Gerhard Bott 90 . Cocon, Hanau 2017. ISBN 978-3-86314-361-9 , pp. 115–126.

Single publications (selection)

  • Occidental jewelry from antiquity to the present day . Berlin 1972.
  • The pleasant location of the city of Frankfurt am Main. Johann Kaspar Zehender presented in 32 hand drawings of this city and area by Johann Kaspar Zehender. Collected there by Johann Christian Gerning from 1771 to 1784. Frankfurt 1954.
  • On the tasks of the art museum in the present . Heidelberg 1979.
  • Bertel Thorwaldsen . In: Theological Real Encyclopedia . Berlin 2001.
  • Artistic forms of expression 1960–1970. Karl Ströher collection. Darmstadt 1970.
  • Hessen (= Reclams Art Guide Germany. Vol. 4). 5th edition 1978 [and other editions].
  • There is only one Rome in the world. Drawings and portraits of German artists in Rome around 1800 . Cologne 1977.
  • Paesi tedeschi . In: L'arte in Europa 1500–1570. Turin 1998.
  • Frankfurt am Main and its art treasures. A guide through art places and museums . Frankfurt 1956.
  • The picture gallery of the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt . Hanau 1968.
  • The Gesundbrunnen at Hofgeismar . Munich 1975.
  • Giovanni Battista Tiepolo . The fresco in the stairwell of the Würzburg Residence . Stuttgart 1963.
  • Goethe and Hanau. A city and its people in the poet's life . Hanau 1949.
  • Together with Richard Schaffer-Hartmann and Bruno-Wilhelm Thiele: The gold and silver city. Hanau and historicism . Hanau 2004.
  • Healing exercise and amusement: The Hereditary Prince's Wilhelmsbad (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 27.3). Hanau 2007.
  • Henry Moore : Maquettes, bronzes, hand drawings . (Published on the occasion of the handover of Large Two Forms at the Federal Chancellery in Bonn). Edited by the Federal Chancellery. Darmstadt 1979.
  • Duchess Anna Amalia von Sachsen-Weimar and her friends in the park of the Villa d'Este in Tivoli (= Miscellanea Bibliothecae Hertzianiae ). Munich 1961.
  • Hesse in romantic times: Frankfurt, Rheinhessen , Starkenburg , Nassau , Upper Hesse , Kurhessen . Hanau 1979.
  • Art Nouveau . Darmstadt's contribution to the international art movement around 1900 . Darmstadt 1965.
  • Jewels, Western jewelry from antiquity to the present . Berlin 1972.
  • with Ursula Peters: Artist life in Rome: Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844), the Danish sculptor and his friends. Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, December 1st 1991 to March 1st 1992. Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf Schleswig, March 22nd to June 21st 1992 . Nuremberg 1991.
  • Art and antiquity in Frankfurt am Main. From the collections of the Historical Museum . Munich 1955.
  • Crafts around 1900. Art nouveau - art nouveau - modern style - nieuwe kunst (= inventory catalog Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt ). Darmstadt 1965.
  • Large two forms. A large sculpture by Henry Moore . In: Art in the Chancellery. Helmut Schmidt and the arts. Munich 1982, p. 84 ff.
  • The Ortenberg Altar in Darmstadt . (= Work monographs on the fine arts in Reclam's Universal Library 115; Reclam's Universal Library 9115). Stuttgart 1966.
  • The Ortenberg Altar . Darmstadt 1981.
  • La pittura tedesca . Milan 1996.
  • Splendid silver of a tsar's daughter. Silver vessels of historicism from Hanau . Mining Museum Klagenfurt 2001.
  • Castles and public buildings in the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg in the 17th and 18th centuries. In: New Magazine for Hanau History 2015, p. 35 ff.
  • Jewelry as an artistic statement of our time . Königsbach 1971.
  • Sepp Schmölzer. Art in jewelry. Klagenfurt 1970.
  • A piece of all kinds of flowers - a piece of fruit - two pieces on cloth with pike. The still life painters Soreau , Binoit , Codino and Marrell in Hanau and Frankfurt 1600–1650 . Hanau 2001.
  • Wilhelm von Harnier 1800–1838 . Darmstadt 1975.
  • Wilhelmsbad, Hanau (= official leader of the administration of the State Palaces and Gardens of Hesse ). Bad Homburg 1988. [and other editions]

Editing (selection)

  • Fine arts: 1850–1914. Documentation from Art Nouveau magazines . Berlin 1970.
  • Joseph M. Olbrich : 1867-1908. The work of the architect. Exhibition on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birthday . Darmstadt 1967.
  • Art Nouveau: arts and crafts around 1900 = Art nouveau = Modern style . Darmstadt 1973.
  • The museum of the future . Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of the foundation charter of the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt 1820–1970. Darmstadt 1970.
  • Peter Paul Rubens : 1577-1640. An exhibition by the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in the Kunsthalle Cologne from October 15 to December 15, 1977 . Cologne 1977.

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

  • Gerhard Bott: Gerhard Bott . In: Barbara Bingel: We were students at the High State School . Hanau 1989, pp. 27-29.
  • Schaffer-Hartmann: Gerhard Bott 90 . CoCon, Hanau 2017. ISBN 978-3-86314-361-9
  • Ulrich Schneider (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Gerhard Bott for his 60th birthday. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg 1987, ISBN 3-9801529-3-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Bott: Gerhard Bott . In: Barbara Bingel: We were students at the High State School. What they are, what they remember . Hanau 1989, ISBN 3-7684-0915-5 , pp. 27-29.
  2. ^ Gerhard Bott: The founding of cities in the Wetterau and in the Kinzigtal . Dissertation 1950 (= Rhein-Mainische Forschungen , 29). DNB 481807020
  3. ^ Gerhard Bott: Foundation Ludwig . Cologne 1976.
  4. ^ Gerhard Bott (Ed.): Competition extension building / Germanisches Nationalmuseum: Minutes of the jury . Nuremberg 1984. Ders .: Departure. The Charterhouse and the Museum Forum of the Germanic National Museum in 1993 . Nuremberg 1993; Ulrich Schneider: Documentation of the tender process for the artistic design of public space in the area of ​​the Nuremberg Employment Office, Municipal Theaters and German National Museum in Nuremberg - Documentation . Nuremberg 1989.
  5. ↑ Catalog: Katharina and Gerhard Bott (eds.): Vice versa. German Painters in America - American Painters in Germany, 1813–1913; German Historical Museum, September 27, 1996 to December 1, 1996 .
personal data
SURNAME Bott, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau