Gian Casper Bott

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Gian Casper Bott (born December 26, 1960 in Poschiavo ) is a Swiss museum director, art historian , curator and curator .

Life

Bott studied art history in Zurich, Venice and Florence. From 1988 to 1990 he conducted research in Rome on the relationship between painting and music in modern times. Study visits followed in 1991 in London and from 1997 to 1998 in Paris. As the first Swiss member of the newly founded German Forum for Art History / Center allemand d'histoire de l'art , he conducted studies there on French art criticism in the 20th century. From 1994 to 1996 Bott was a research assistant at the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig, from 1999 to 2004 at the Kunstmuseum Basel and from 2005 to 2009, with interruptions, at the Kunsthaus Zürich, where he dealt with aspects of the respective collections and designed and implemented exhibitions. From 1994 to 2006 he wrote exhibition reviews and articles for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .

Since 2015 Bott has been the director of the Kleines Klingental Museum in Basel , the former city and minster museum. In this role he was responsible for the project management of the exhibitions Full Steam to Basel. The first Swiss train station changed the city (2015), Merian 1615–2015. Basel in a city portrait (2015), light shine and dance of death. The Dominican convent in Klingental in medieval Basel (2016), the music hall in Basel (2017), Tramstadt Basel. On rails to the modern city (2018), Basler Münster. A Millennium Building (2019), Modern Living (from May 2020).

Exhibitions

  • ... catch the eye. Still life (Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, 1996)
  • The Max Geldner Collection in the Kunstmuseum Basel (with Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann and Katharina Schmidt, Kunstmuseum Basel, 2000)
  • Not Bott. La vitalità del legno (with Franco Monteforte, Palazzo Besta , Teglio, 2000)
  • Basel - Paris - Venice. Cityscapes by Niklaus Stoecklin (Museum Kleines Klingental, Basel, 2002)
  • Canaletto - Vedute and ceremony (Kunsthaus Zurich, 2003)
  • Not Bott. The sculpture (with Remo A. Alig, Kulturforum Würth Chur, 2007)
  • Salons, séances, secession. Albert von Keller (Kunsthaus Zurich, 2009)
  • SEANCE. Albert von Keller and the Occult (with Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Frye Art Museum USA-Seattle, 2010)
  • TATLIN. new art for a new world ( Museum Tinguely Basel, 2012)
  • Merian 1615-2015. Basel in a city portrait (with Martin Möhle, Museum Kleines Klingental, Basel, 2015)
  • Macchiaioli, divisionisti, simbolisti. Capolavori ottocenteschi della Collezione Riccardo Molo. La Pinacoteca Züst di Rancate ospite in Casa Console ( Museo d'Arte Casa Console , Poschiavo, 2016)
  • Wolfgang Hildesheimer. Nel centenario della nascita / For the hundredth year of birth , Biblioteca Comunale, Ponte in Valtellina, 2016
  • Wolfgang Hildesheimer (small permanent presentation in the Museo poschiavino, Poschiavo, since 2016)
  • Not Bott (Museo d'Arte Casa Console, Poschiavo 2017)
  • Fernando Lardelli. Arte moderna fra Poschiavo e Parigi / Modernism between Poschiavo and Paris (Museo d'Arte Casa Console, Poschiavo 2018)
  • Pittori lepontini ticinesi / Lepontine Ticino painters. From Chialiva, Rossi and Franzoni to Sergio Maina (Museo d'Arte Casa Console, Poschiavo 2019)
  • Cinquecento a Poschiavo. Le vetrate rinascimentali di San Vittore Mauro del Museo Nazionale Svizzero / Cinquecento in Poschiavo. The Renaissance stained glass by San Vittore Mauro in the Swiss National Museum (Museo d'Arte Casa Console, Poschiavo 2020)

Works

Monographs

  • Still life (picture books of the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig, issue 10, Braunschweig, Limbach, 1996)
  • The sound in the picture. Evaristo Baschenis and the invention of the musical still life (Berlin, Reimer, 1997)
  • Giovanni Segantini 1858–1899 (Coira, Casa editrice per testi didattici dei Grigioni, 1999)
  • Kunstmuseum Basel (Geneva / Zurich, Paribas / Swiss Institute for Art Research, 2004)
  • Still life (Cologne, Moscow etc., Taschen, 2008)
  • Albert von Keller. Salons, séances, Secession (Munich, Hirmer, 2009)
  • L'oratorio S. Anna e l'ossario di Poschiavo. L'architettura, gli affreschi di Lorenzo Piccioli, la confraternita del SS. Sacramento (Poschiavo, Società Storica, 2010)
  • Seance. Albert von Keller and the Occult (with Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Seattle, Washington University Press, 2010)
  • Trittici grigionitaliani. L'obiettivo al femminile (Coira, Pro Grigioni Italiano, 2014)
  • Wolfgang Hildesheimer. Nel centenario della nascita / On the hundredth year of birth (Sondrio, Bettini, 2016)

Essays

  • Le Deposizioni di Cipriano Valorsa , in: Quaderni grigionitaliani, 59, 2, (1990), pp. 158-174
  • "Ut pictura musica": On Evaristo Baschenis' "Ricercata Quinta" , in: Harald Heckmann, Monika Holl and Hans Joachim Marx (eds.), Musical Iconography, Hamburger Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft, Vol. XII, Laaber 1994, p. 15– 30th
  • Death in the picture: Wolfgang Hildesheimer's last collage , in: Silvia Hildesheimer (ed.), Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Beauty as Therapy, Pictures against Despair, with a foreword by Peter Horst Neumann, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig (Insel) 1996, p 83-93
  • “Pictor in tabula”. Jan Vermeer and an exhibition in Washington , in: Christine Göttler et al. (Ed.), “Diletto e Maraviglia”. Expression and impact in art from the Renaissance to the Baroque, Rudolf Preimesberger on his 60th birthday, Emsdetten (Edition Imorde) 1998, pp. 290–305
  • The Andalusian Apelles. Velázquez was born four hundred years ago , in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), 5./6. June 1999
  • Viewer in the cage of the chimera. French art criticism and the still life of modernity , in: Uwe Fleckner and Thomas W. Gaehtgens (eds.), Prenez garde à la peinture !: Art criticism in France 1900–1945, PASSAGEN / Passages, yearbook of the German Forum for Art History, Paris, vol 1, Berlin (Akademie Verlag) 1999, pp. 123-146
  • "Tout ce reste qui n'est que peinture". Still Life and Art Criticism in Twentieth-Century France, in: Peter Weiermair, Samuel Vitali, Uliana Zanetti, The Nature of Still Life. From Manet to the Present Day, Milano, Electa, 2001, pp. 229-237
  • Carte blanche: Alberto Giacometti. Un dialogo in presenza dell'opera, as co-author with Miguela Tamo, in: Quaderni grigionitaliani, 70–71, 4–1, (2001–2002), pp. 89–103
  • Young art at the cutting edge. A Rembrandt panel from 1627, in: Supplement to the 400th birthday of Rembrandt, with contributions by Gernot Böhme, Gian Casper Bott, Ekkehard Mai, Jürgen Müller et al., In: NZZ, 15./16. July 2006
  • Dance metaphors of horror - Wolfgang Hildesheimer's death pictures, in: Uli Wunderlich (ed.), L'art macabre 8, Yearbook of the European Dance of Death Association, Bamberg 2007, pp. 9-16
  • Albert von Keller. Salones, reuniones y Secesión. Luz, simbolismo y musicalidad en la obra pictórica de Albert von Keller, in: Numen, VI, Revista trimestral de Arte, año 3, núm. seis, 2009, pp. 80-99
  • Le vittime del lavoro. L'umanità sofferente nel capolavoro di Vincenzo Vela, in: Gianna Mina (ed.), Le vittime del lavoro di Vincenzo Vela 1882. Genesi e fortuna critica di un capolavoro, Ligornetto, Museo Vincenzo Vela, Berna, Ufficio federale della cultura, 2016 , Pp. 41–77 (German edition: Bern, Federal Office for Culture, 2016, pp. 45–83)
  • Lute play and farewell. A diptych by Gerard David in Basel, in: Johannes Wienand (ed.), Low German Contributions to Art History, New Series, Vol. 4, Contributions to ancient painting and the collecting of art, Petersberg, Michael Imhof Verlag, 2019, p. 8 -18
  • "Learned a lot again as a Basel native, but above all amazed" ... On the exhibition "The Basel Minster. A Millennium Building", in: Ursa Krattiger, Annual Report Verein pro Klingentalmuseum 2019, Basel 2020, pp. 12-14

Co-author (articles in exhibition and inventory catalogs)

  • Henry the Lion and his time. Rule and representation of the Guelphs 1125–1235 (Munich, Hirmer, 1995)
  • Evaristo Baschenis e la natura morta in Europe (Milano, Skira, 1996)
  • The Max Geldner Collection in the Kunstmuseum Basel (Basel, Schwabe, 2000)
  • The Im Obersteg Collection at the Kunstmuseum Basel (Basel, Schwabe, 2004)
  • EG Bührle Collection Foundation Zurich, catalog, vol. I (Conegliano, Linea d'ombra Libri, 2005)
  • Kunsthaus Zurich. Complete catalog of paintings and sculptures (Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 2007)
  • Of beauty and death. Animal still lifes from the Renaissance to the modern age (Heidelberg and Berlin, Kehrer, 2011)
  • Tatlin. new art for a new world (Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 2012)
  • Tatlin. new art for a new world. International Symposium (Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 2013)
  • Karl Itschner (1868-1953). Works on paper (Zurich, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2014)
  • Open Sesame! Anker, Hodler, Segantini, Foundation for Art, Culture and History (Musumeci, Quart, 2014)
  • Heiner Kielholz (Zurich, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2014)
  • Master drawings. 100 years of the graphic collection at the Kunsthaus Zürich (Zürich, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2015)
  • Art Museum Bern. Masterpieces (Munich, Hirmer, 2016)

Lexicon article

  • Gian Pietro Ligari , in: Biografisches Lexikon der Schweizer Kunst, Zurich 1998, pp. 633–634. Online: www.sikart.ch
  • Leon Battista Alberti, in: MGG, The Music in Past and Present, Kassel etc. 1999, Person Part 1, Sp. 355–358
  • Evaristo Baschenis, also called Prevarisco , in: MGG, Kassel etc. 1999, Person Teil 2, Sp. 423-425

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kleines Klingenthal - Organization. Accessed June 6, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Bott, Gian Casper
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss art historian, conservator and curator
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Poschiavo