Hans-Rudolf Meier

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Hans-Rudolf Meier (born November 9, 1956 in Zurich ) is a Swiss - German art historian and professor at the University of Weimar .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a laboratory assistant, work in the chemical industry and trade union and political involvement, Hans-Rudolf Meier studied art history , history , medieval archeology and prehistory and early history in Basel , Zurich and Freiburg im Breisgau, licentiate in Basel, where he was then scientific assistant at Art history seminar at the University of Basel , where he received his doctorate in 1992 with a thesis on high medieval secular architecture in Sicily and completed his habilitation in art history in 2000. From 1992 to 2000 he was senior assistant at the Institute for Monument Preservation at the ETH Zurich , interrupted in 1996 by a research stay as a member of the Istituto Svizzero in Rome. From 2000 to 2002 he worked on a research project on secular wall painting of the Middle Ages at the Medieval Institute of the Université de Friborg and head of a project of the Swiss National Fund on the grave finds in Basel Minster.

In 2002/03 he was the professor for older art history at the University of Basel, from 2003 to 2007 he was professor for monument studies and applied building research at the Technical University of Dresden and head of the postgraduate master’s course in “Monument Preservation and Urban Development”. In 2008 he accepted the professorship for the preservation of monuments and building research at the Bauhaus University Weimar , where he was Vice-Rector for Research from 2011 to 2012. From 2017 to 2019 he was a member of the University Council of the Bauhaus University Weimar. Since 2016 he has been the deputy spokesman for the DFG Graduate School GRK2227 "Identity and Heritage".

His main research interests are the theory and history of monument preservation, medieval and modern architecture, and the prehistory of medieval archeology.

He is u. a. Member of the Scientific Commission of the German Foundation for Monument Protection , the Scientific Advisory Board of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar , the State Monument Councils of Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt (2007–2015), the Commission for Art History of Central Germany at the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig and the Design Advisory Board of the City of Baden -To bathe. From 2008 to 2016 he was 1st chairman of the working group theory and teaching of the preservation of monuments. He is editor of the research on the architectural heritage of the GDR , co-editor of the series Urban Development and Preservation of monuments and together with Winfried Speitkamp and Frank Simon-Ritz publisher of the online publication series Neue Bauhaus lectures . He is also a member of the editorial board of Forum Stadt magazine . Quarterly magazine for urban history, urban sociology, monument preservation and urban development .

Fonts (selection)

Books
  • The Basler Münster (together with Dorothea Schwinn Schürmann and Marco Bernasconi, Stefan Hess , Carola Jäggi , Anne Nagel and Ferdinand Pajor), Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Basel-Stadt Vol. X, Basel 2019, ISBN 978-3-03797-573-2 .
  • Cultural reformer. Racial ideologist. University Director. The long shadow of Paul Schultze-Naumburg (edited together with Daniela Spiegel), Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-946653-88-2 .
  • Values. Reasons for the preservation of monuments in the past and present (edited together with Ingrid Scheurmann and Wolfgang Sonne), Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86859-162-0 .
  • Heaven door. The west portal of the Basel Minster (edited on behalf of the Minster Building Commission together with Dorothea Schwinn Schürmann), Basel 2011, ISBN 978-3-7965-2762-3 .
  • StadtBild and Monument Preservation. Construction and reception of images of the city (edited with Sigrid Brandt), series urban development and monument preservation, Vol. 11, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-939633-73-0 .
  • Cultural Heritage and Natural Disasters. Risk Preparedness and the Limits of Prevention (ed. With Michael Petzet and Thomas Will), ICOMOS Heritage @ Risk special volume 2007, Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-940046-64-2 .
  • The Basler Münster (together with Dorothea Schwinn Schürmann and Erik Schmidt), Basel 2006, ISBN 978-3-7965-2260-4 .
  • Monuments in the city - the city as a monument. Problems and opportunities for urban redevelopment (ed.). Series of publications on urban development and preservation of monuments, Vol. 1, Dresden 2006, ISBN 978-3-938863-43-5 .
  • Buildings and places as carriers of memory. The Debate of Remembrance and the Preservation of Monuments (edited together with Marion Wohlleben), publications at the Institute for Preservation of Monuments at ETH Zurich, Vol. 21, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-7281-2732-9 .
  • Romansh Switzerland , Würzburg 1996, ISBN 978-3-7954-1302-6 .
  • For earthly glory and heavenly reward. Founder and client in medieval art (edited with Carola Jäggi and Philippe Büttner ), Berlin 1995, ISBN 978-3-496-01137-8 .
  • The Norman Royal Palaces in Palermo. Studies on high medieval residential architecture , Worms 1994, ISBN 978-3-88462-941-3 .
  • La basilica di Santa Chiara in Assisi (together with Marino Bigaroni and Elvio Lunghi), Perugia 1994.
  • The town church of St.Laurentius in Winterthur. Results of the archaeological and historical research (together with Carola Jäggi, Renata Windler and Martin Illi ), Zürcher Denkmalpflege, Archäologische Monographien Vol. 14, Zurich 1993.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Norman Royal Palaces in Palermo. Studies on high medieval residential architecture, Worms 1994.
  2. ↑ https://www.identitaet-und-erbe.org/
  3. ↑ Prolegomena on the history of our association. On the foundation of the Working Group Theory and Teaching of Monument Preservation eV forty (and more) years ago, in: Structural Change - Monument Change. Reconstruction - conversion - reinterpretation. Urban and rural areas under pressure to convert. Publication of the working group Theory and Teaching of Monument Preservation Vol. 25, Holzminden 2016, 12f.
  4. ↑ https://asw-verlage.de/reihen/forschungen-baukulturelles-erbe/
  5. ↑ https://www.jovis.de/de/buecher/reihen/stadtentwicklung-und-denkmalpflege.html
  6. ↑ This series is made available via the online publication system of the Weimar University Library .
personal data
SURNAME Meier, Hans-Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-German art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich