Hans Aurenhammer
Hans Aurenhammer (born November 14, 1958 in Vienna ) is an Austrian art historian .
Life
Aurenhammer grew up as the son of the art historian couple Hans and Gertrude Aurenhammer and completed his own studies of art history in Vienna and from 1982 to 1984 in Venice . He received his doctorate in 1985 on "Studies on the Altar and Altarpiece of the Venetian Renaissance".
From 1985 Aurenhammer worked as an assistant at the Institute for Art History at the University of Vienna . In addition, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Graz in 1990 and as a visiting professor at the Università Ca 'Foscari di Venezia in 1997/98 ; In 2004 he completed his habilitation. Aurenhammer's habilitation thesis dealt with the subject of "Studies on the theory of 'historia' in Leon Battista Alberti's 'De pictura'". Between 2004 and 2008 he held several visiting professorships at the Free University of Berlin and at the Technical University of Dresden .
Aurenhammer edited the “Vienna Yearbook for Art History” for many years and has also been co-editor since 2004. From 1989 to 1993 and from 2001 to 2005 he was a member of the board of the Austrian Art Historians' Association.
Aurenhammer's frank discussion of the complex history of the Vienna Institute and the Vienna School of Art History attracted international attention . In 2008 he was offered the renaissance professorship at the Art History Institute of the University of Frankfurt am Main and at almost the same time was accepted as a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .
Works (selection)
- Studies on the altar and altarpiece of the Venetian Renaissance. Form, function and historical context. Unprinted Phil. Diss., University of Vienna 1985 (typescript, 502 pages)
- Titian. The Madonna of the House of Pesaro. How does history come into a Venetian altarpiece? Frankfurt a. M. 1994 ("kunststück" series, edited by Klaus Herding and Michael Diers, Fischer paperback no. 10127)
- with Bastian Eclercy : Titian and the Renaissance in Venice . Prestel, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-7913-5812-3
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Aurenhammer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Scientific honors. Prof. Aurenhammer becomes a member of the Academy of Sciences and receives a call to a German university , institute news from May 2008 from the Institute for Art History at the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna
- CV of Hans Aurenhammer , Art History Institute at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
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| SURNAME | Aurenhammer, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |