Gottfried Boehm

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Gottfried Boehm (born September 16, 1942 in Braunau , Reichsgau Sudetenland ) is a German art historian , philosopher and professor emeritus at the University of Basel .

Life

Boehm studied art history , philosophy and German in Cologne , Vienna and Heidelberg , received his doctorate in philosophy in 1968 and qualified as a professor in 1974 in art history. From 1975 to 1979 he was a lecturer and adjunct professor for art history at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In 1979 he was offered a full professorship for art history at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . During this time he initiated the Giessener Kunstweg , which began in 1982 as a sculpture path on the university grounds. In 1986 Boehm moved to Switzerland to the University of Basel, where, in addition to his full professorship, since 2005 he has been director of the Swiss national research focus “Bildkritik / Eikones”. In 1992 he was appointed a full member of the humanities class of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts . In 2012 he retired.

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In his work, Gottfried Boehm is particularly influenced by hermeneutics and phenomenology and by the hermeneutical thinking of Hans-Georg Gadamer . He worked on the art and perception theory of the Renaissance , the 19th and 20th centuries, contemporary art and more general questions of modernity . In recent years he has made an appearance through his contributions to visual history and visual science , and in doing so, stimulated an iconic turn . In addition, he coined the term iconic difference . Alongside Hans Belting and Horst Bredekamp, Gottfried Boehm is currently one of the most important theorists in art history in the German-speaking world.

Quotes

  • “What we encounter as an image is based on a single basic contrast, that between a manageable total area and everything that it includes in terms of internal events. The relationship between the descriptive whole and what it contains in terms of individual determinations (color, shape, figure, etc.) was optimized in some way by the artist ” (1994)
  • “The media industry's hostility to images is unbroken, not because it forbids or prevents images, on the contrary: because it sets in motion a flood of images, the basic tendency of which is aimed at suggestion, for visual substitution of reality, one of whose criteria has always been the limits of one's own image to disguise ” (1995).

Awards and memberships

Fonts

Monographs

  • Studies on Perspectivity. Philosophy and Art in the Early Modern Age (= Heidelberg Research. No. 13). Dissertation Heidelberg 1969.
  • Portrait and Individual. About the origin of portraiture in the Italian Renaissance. Munich 1985.
  • Paul Cézanne: Montagne Sainte-Victoire. Frankfurt am Main 1988.
  • Museum of Classical Modernism: twenty masterpieces of modern art. Frankfurt am Main 1997.
  • The painter Max Weiler: the spiritual in nature. Vienna, New York 2001.
  • How images create meaning - the power of showing. Berlin 2007.
  • The visibility of time. Studies on the image in modern times (eikones) , ed. v. Ralph Ubl, with an afterword by v. Rahel Villinger. Wilhelm Fink: Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-7705-6274-9 .

As editor

  • Writings on art by Konrad Fiedler. 2 volumes. Munich 1971.
  • Seminar: Philosophical Hermeneutics. Frankfurt 1976.
  • Seminar: Hermeneutics and the Sciences. Frankfurt 1985.
  • Modernity and tradition: Festschrift for Max Imdahl on his 60th birthday. Munich 1985.
  • Individual: Problems of individuality in art, philosophy and science. Stuttgart 1994.
  • What is a picture Munich 1994.
  • Descriptive art - Description of art: Ekphrasis from antiquity to the present. Munich 1995.
  • Collected writings by Max Imdahl. Frankfurt 1996.
  • Cézanne and the modern age. Ostfildern 1999.
  • Constructions, Visibilities: Interventions. Vienna 1999.
  • Homo pictor. Munich 2001.
  • Henri Matisse: figure, color, space. Ostfildern 2005.
  • Figure and Figuration: Studies in Perception and Knowledge. Munich 2007.
  • Movens picture. Between evidence and affect. Munich 2008.
  • with Horst Bredekamp : Iconology of the Present. Munich 2009.
  • with Christian Spies and Sebastian Egenhofer: Show. The rhetoric of the visible Munich 2010.
  • with Matteo Burioni: The reason. The field of the visible . Munich 2012.
  • with Emmanuel Alloa, Orlando Budelacci and Gerald Wildgruber: Imagination. Search and find . Munich 2014.

Articles (selection)

  • A hermeneutics of the image. In: H.-G. Gadamer, G. Boehm (Ed.): Seminar: The hermeneutics and the sciences. Frankfurt am Main 1978, pp. 444-471.
  • Mnemosyne. To the category of remembering vision. In: G. Boehm, KH Stierle, G. Winter (Ed.): Modernity and Tradition. Festschrift Max Imdahl, Munich 1985, pp. 37–57.
  • The question of images. In: Gottfried Boehm (Ed.): What is a picture? Munich 1994, pp. 325–343 ( online , PDF; 972 kB).
  • The return of images. In: Gottfried Boehm (Ed.): What is a picture? Munich 1994, pp. 11-38.
  • Image description. Beyond the limits of image and language. In: G. Boehm, H. Pfotenhauer (Hrsg.): Description art - description of art. The Ekphrasis from Antiquity to the Present. Munich 1995, pp. 23-40.
  • Paul Cézanne and the modern. In: Cézanne and the modern age. Catalog. Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Basel. Ostfildern-Ruit 1999, pp. 10-27.
  • The power of images. The art of the “mentally ill” and the image discourse. In: Wahn, Welt, Bild, The Prinzhorn Collection. Contributions to the museum opening (= Heidelberger Jahrbücher. XLVI). Heidelberg 2002, pp. 1-10.
  • The dumb Logos. Elements of an image science. In: Yearbook of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin 2001/2002, pp. 188–208.
  • Beyond the language? Notes on the logic of the images. In: Christa Maar, Hubert Burda (Ed.): Iconic Turn. The new power of images. Cologne 2004, pp. 28–43.
  • The image and the hermeneutic reflection. In: Dimensions of the Hermeneutical. Heidegger and Gadamer. Edited by the Martin Heidegger Society. Series of publications, Volume 7. Frankfurt am Main, 2005, pp. 23–35.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Gottfried Boehm holds the 12th Johannes Gutenberg Endowed Professorship in 2011 , in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft from November 9, 2010, accessed on November 9, 2010
  2. ↑ Member site ( Memento from August 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), in: www.sudetendeutsche-akademie.eu, accessed on February 23, 2011
  3. ↑ Member entry by Gottfried Boehm (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 30, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Boehm, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Broumov , Reichsgau Sudetenland