Giessen professors' gallery
The Giessen Professorengalerie is a collection of paintings from the Justus Liebig University Giessen . It contains commissioned portraits of former professors , chancellors , rectors and other people associated with the university.
collection
The collection originally consisted of 108 portraits of professors from Giessen from the second quarter of the 17th century to the end of the 18th century, two of which were destroyed in the Second World War. The oldest painting dates from 1629, when the University of Giessen temporarily moved to Marburg because of the plague and the Thirty Years' War . Of the 106 oil paintings that have survived, each measuring 60 × 75 cm, 104 are now hanging in the Senate Hall of the main university building. They can be assigned to seven painters. There are portraits of professors from all four faculties common at early modern universities: 25 paintings by theologians (including one unknown), 28 paintings by lawyers, 19 paintings by medical professionals and 31 portraits of philosophers (including two unknown ones), as well as the portrait of the university secretary Riedel.
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See also
The Tübingen professors' gallery , which was founded in 1590, has around 330 portraits today and more is being added again and again.
Web links
- Photos of the paintings
- Siegfried Rösch: The professors' gallery at Giessen University . In: Ludwig University, Justus Liebig University: 1607–1957; Festschrift for the 350th anniversary. Schmitz Verlag, Gießen, 1957, pp. 433-442 ( urn : nbn: de: hebis: 26-opus-30943 ).