Hans-Jürgen Kotzur

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Hans-Jürgen Kotzur (born October 13, 1946 in Sonneberg ) is a German art historian and monument conservator .

Life

Hans-Jürgen Kotzur grew up in Pirmasens and after graduating from high school first wanted to study medicine in Saarbrücken. At the age of 23 he emigrated to Australia, only to return to Germany a little later to study art history, classical archeology and sociology at the universities of Munich , Basel and Heidelberg . In 1977 he received his doctorate in Heidelberg with a thesis on the life and work of the Bavarian architect August von Voit . Before completing his doctorate, Kotzur went to the University of Mainz and became Friedhelm Fischer's research assistant at the Institute of Art History.

In 1978 he became a church curator at the Episcopal Conservator's Office of the Diocese of Trier . From 1979 to 1988 he worked as a church conservator and head of the Department of Monument Preservation and Art in the building department of the Limburg diocese . He was involved in numerous church renovations, including the Wetzlar Cathedral from 1982 to 1988 and important churches in the Rheingau and the Frankfurt area. He also built the Limburg Diocesan Museum in 1984 and the Frankfurt Cathedral Museum in 1987 .

At the beginning of April 1988, Kotzur moved to Mainz as diocesan curator of the diocese of Mainz and director of the Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum and became Wilhelm Jung's successor . As a monument conservator, he developed the restoration and design concepts of numerous churches in the diocese of Mainz , including St. Ludwig in Darmstadt , which was painted according to his concept, or the Rochus Chapel in Bingen or the St. Martins Church in Ober-Olm . He has also expanded the Cathedral and Diocesan Museum and doubled the exhibition area through various extensions. Kotzur has realized a total of 18 special exhibitions, from “1,000 Years of St. Stephan Mainz ” (1990) to the exhibition “The Disappeared Cathedral” (2011). The most popular special exhibitions include Hildegard von Bingen from 1998 with around 100,000 visitors and the Crusades (2004) with 130,000 visitors. He was appointed cathedral curator in 2000. He retired on October 30, 2011, and was succeeded by Winfried Wilhelmy in the Mainz Cathedral Museum . On the occasion of his retirement he was awarded the Roman Imperial Medallion of the City of Mainz .

Fonts (selection)

  • Research on the life and work of the architect August von Voit . Dissertation, University of Heidelberg 1978.
  • Cheerful to macabre. The world of images of the Heidelberg painter Rainer Motz, called Munke , Heidelberg-Rohrbach: Heimatmuseum Heidelberg-Rohrbach, 2018
  • (Ed.), The Disappeared Cathedral (exhibition catalog), Schmidt, Mainz 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Dr. Farewell to Hans-Jürgen Kotzur - long-time cathedral curator and director of the cathedral and diocesan museum on bistummainz.de on October 25, 2011
  2. ↑ Between syringes and trowel Dr. Hans-Jürgen Kotzur is retiring - and working on “Art Icons of the 20th Century” / Cathedral and Diocese as Bernd Funke's field of work in Allgemeine-zeitung.de on September 3, 2011.
  3. ↑ Dr. Winfried Wilhelmy becomes director of the Mainz Cathedral Museum - Cardinal Lehmann succeeded Dr. Kotzur to the public on bistummainz.de on May 26, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Kotzur, Hans-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Sonneberg