Gerhard Bucket

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Gerhard Werner Karl Eimer (born April 5, 1928 in Marburg ; † March 27, 2014 on Rügen ) was a German art historian .

Life

Eimer was the son of the internist Karl Eimer ; his mother was also a doctor. He grew up in Stettin from 1934 to 1945 , where he attended four different schools, and was drafted into the Navy in 1944 . After a stay in Lychen , he came after the end of the Second World War, first to Düsseldorf and then to Hameln , where he passed the Abitur in February 1947 . In the summer semester of 1947 he began studying art history at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , where he met Richard Sedlmaier , Arthur Haseloff, Lilli Martius and Alfred Kamphausen heard. As minor subjects, he first took theology , then Semitic languages (among others with Hans Wilhelm Hertzberg ) and philosophy (among others with Ludwig Landgrebe and Hans Blumenberg ). During his studies he took part in excavations in Bornhöved and Preetz . In the summer of 1953, with a dissertation on the Fredenhagen room in Lübeck, he was awarded Dr. phil. PhD . This was followed by activities at the Stockholm National Museum and the City Museum there. At the same time he began a second degree at Stockholm University and received his doctorate there in 1961 on urban planning in the Swedish Baltic Sea region. From there he went for a short time to the Art History Institute in Florence , but returned to Stockholm University in 1962, where he took on a lectureship after his habilitation . In 1973 he was appointed professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main to succeed Harald Keller , where he taught at the Art History Institute until his retirement in 1996 . Bucket died after a long illness at the age of 85.

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Eimer's research areas were very broad and spanned from the 15th to the 20th century; His work focused on the architecture and urban planning of the Baroque and Renaissance periods in Italy and Sweden , the art of German Romanticism (especially Caspar David Friedrich ), the art history of Northern Europe and the Baltic Sea region (especially Bernt Notke ) and the work of Vincent van Gogh . For many years he was the editor of the Frankfurter Fundamente der Kunstgeschichte and a member of the Historical Commission for Pomerania .

Publications (selection)

As an author

  • Urban planning in the Swedish Baltic Sea region, 1600–1715. With contributions to the history of the ideal city. Svenska Bokförlaget, Stockholm / Gyldendal, København / Akateeminen Kirjakauppa, Helsinki 1961 (also Phil. Diss. Stockholm University)
  • Carl Gustaf Wrangel as the builder in Pomerania and Sweden. Ett bidrag till stormaktstidens konsthistoria. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm 1961 (Swedish)
  • La Fabbrica di S. Agnese in Navona. Roman architects, builders and craftsmen in the age of nepotism. 2 vols., Almquist & Wiksell, Stockholm 1970, 1971 (Stockholm Studies in History of Art)
  • On the dialectic of faith in Caspar David Friedrich. Art History Institute of the University, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 978-3-923813-00-1 (Frankfurter Fundamente der Kunstgeschichte, Vol. 1)
  • Bernt Notke. The work of a Low German artist in the Baltic Sea region. Cultural Foundation of the German Displaced Persons, Bonn 1985, ISBN 978-3-88557-043-1
  • Sources on the political iconography of Romanticism: Stein's Tower in Nassau. Art History Institute, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 978-3-923813-01-8 (Frankfurter Fundamente der Kunstgeschichte, Vol. 2)
  • Van Gogh indices. Analytical key to the artist's writings. Edited by Gerhard Eimer with the assistance of Manfred Fritsch and Dieter Hermsdorf. Editing and editing: Gerhard Eimer. Art History Institute, Frankfurt am Main / Wasmuth, Berlin 1992, ISBN 978-3-923813-07-0 (Frankfurter Fundamente der Kunstgeschichte, Vol. 8)
  • The history of the Art History Institute of the Goethe University Frankfurt. 1915-1995. Published by the Board of Directors of the Art History Institute. Edited by Heinrich Dilly and Gerhard Eimer. Art History Institute, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 978-3-923813-17-9 (Frankfurter Fundamente der Kunstgeschichte, Vol. 17)

As editor

  • (with Günther Rath) Caspar David Friedrich: Statements when looking at a collection of paintings by mostly still living and recently deceased artists. Art History Institute, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 978-3-923813-15-5 (Critical Edition of the writings of the artist and contemporary witnesses, Part 1 / Frankfurter Fundamente der Kunstgeschichte, Vol. 16)
  • (with Ernst Gierlich) The sacred brick architecture of the southern Baltic Sea region - the theological aspect. International conference of the Cultural Foundation of the German Expellees, Stralsund 1998. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-7861-1569-4 (Art-historical work of the Cultural Foundation of the German Expellees, Vol. 2)
  • Real defensiveness or martial effect. On the practical function and symbolic character of defense elements of profane and sacred buildings in the Teutonic Order of Prussia and in the Baltic Sea region. Art historical conference of the Cultural Foundation of the German Expellees, Marienburg 1999. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8046-8868-3 (Art-historical work of the Cultural Foundation of the German Expellees, Vol. 3)
  • (with Ernst Gierlich) art historian and monument conservator of the east. The contribution to the development of the subject in the 19th and 20th centuries. Art-historical symposium, St. Marienthal / Ostritz 2004. Cultural Foundation of the German Displaced Persons, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-88557-221-3 (Art-historical work of the Cultural Foundation of the German Displaced Persons, Vol. 5)
  • Ecclesiae ornatae. Church furnishings from the Middle Ages and the early modern period between monument value and functionality. Art-historical conference Greifswald 2005. Cultural Foundation of the German Displaced Persons, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-88557-226-8 (Art-historical work of the Cultural Foundation of the German Displaced Persons, Vol. 6)
  • (with Ernst Gierlich, Matthias Müller and Kazimierz Pospieszny) Terra sanctae Mariae. Medieval sculptures of the veneration of Mary in the Teutonic Order of Prussia. International conference of the Cultural Foundation of the German Displaced Persons, Thorn 2007. Cultural Foundation of the German Displaced Persons, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-88557-227-5 (Art-historical work of the Cultural Foundation of the German Displaced Persons, Vol. 7)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV . In: Gerhard Eimer: The Fredenhagen room in Lübeck . Phil. Diss. University of Kiel 1953, p. 173f.
  2. ^ Deceased members since 2010 on the website of the Historical Commission for Pomerania
personal data
SURNAME Bucket, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eimer, Gerhard Werner Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, professor of art history
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2014
Place of death on Rügen