Hans Belting

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Hans Belting (born July 7, 1935 in Andernach ) is a German art historian and media theorist with a focus on image studies , modern and media art as well as Italian art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance .

Life

Belting studied art history in Mainz and Rome and received his doctorate from the University of Mainz . He was then a Fellow of Harvard University at the Dumbarton Oaks Institute, Washington.

He qualified as a professor at the University of Hamburg with the writing Studies on Beneventan Painting and taught from 1969 as a full professor at the University of Heidelberg , from 1980 to 1992 as a full professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From 1992 until his retirement in 2002 he was a professor at the Institute for Art Research and Media Theory at the State University for Design in Karlsruhe. From October 2004 to the end of September 2007 he was director of the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna.

Belting is a member of various scientific academies in Germany ( Heidelberg Academy of Sciences ), in Europe ( Academia Europaea ) and in the USA ( American Academy of Arts and Sciences ), member of the American Philosophical Society (2005), member of the Görres Society (1989 ), Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin (1995), honorary member of the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin (since 2006) and member of the order Pour le mérite for science and the arts (1998) as well as member of the board of trustees of the Museum für Moderne Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna (MUMOK). Since 2013 he has been a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts . For 2015 he was awarded the Balzan Prize . In 2016 Belting gave away his private library, which comprises several thousand volumes, to various university libraries: the Department of Image Studies at Danube University Krems , the Department of History and Cultural Studies at Freie Universität Berlin , and the Philosophical Faculty of Masaryk University in Brno . The University of Brno then opened a specialized library named after Belting.

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Methodically, his book The Image and Its Audience in the Middle Ages was trend-setting . Form and function of early picture panels of the Passion (1981), in which Belting examines the reception of Passion icons in the West and thus explores cultural transfer in an innovative way. The book Bild und Kult , published in 1990, attracted international attention . It is dedicated to medieval image worship from a social-historical perspective. Images of saints are also at the fore in The Real Image (2005).

For the development of visual studies significant was the image Anthropology (2001), in which Belting the cultural and historical origins of image-making investigated, citing, among other things, the relationship between image and death devotes special attention, as well as current developments in the media company and the current "crisis of representation ”reflects.

Belting locates the origin of central perspective viewing in Baghdad and blames “transcription errors” for the fact that the Florence of the Renaissance is considered the place of origin of central perspective .

Publications

Monographs (selection)

  • An Anthropology of Images. Picture, medium, body. Translated by Thomas Dunlap. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2014, ISBN 978-0-691-14500-6 .
  • Faces: a story of the face. Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64430-6 .
  • The view behind Duchamp's door. Art and perspective with Duchamp, Sugimoto, Jeff Wall . König, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86560-488-0 .
  • Florence and Baghdad: A West-Eastern History of the Blick Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 3406570925 , ISBN 978-3406570926
  • Modern scenarios. Art and its open borders (= Fundus books. Vol. 164). Philo, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-86572-534-1 .
  • The real picture. Image questions as questions of faith. Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-53460-0 .
  • Image anthropology. Designs for an image science. Fink, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-7705-3449-2 .
  • The invisible masterpiece. The modern myths of art . Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-44057-6 .
  • [with Christiane Kruse]; The invention of the painting. The first century of Dutch painting . Munich, Hirmer, 1994.
  • Image and cult. A history of the image before the age of art. Beck, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-406-34367-8 .
  • The end of art history? Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-422-00751-2 .
  • The picture and its audience in the Middle Ages. Form and function of early panels of the Passion. Mann, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-7861-1307-6 .
  • Studies on Beneventan painting (= research on art history and Christian archeology. Vol. 7). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1968, ISBN 3-515-00562-5 .
  • The Basilica dei Ss. Martiri in Cimitile and her early medieval fresco cycle. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1962.

As editor

  • Image questions. Image sciences on the move. Fink, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7705-4457-8 .
  • with Martin Schulz and Dietmar Kamper : Quel corps? A question of representation. Fink, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7705-3728-9 .
  • The second look. Image history and image reflection. Fink, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7705-3367-4 .
  • with Lydia Haustein: The legacy of pictures. Art and modern media in the cultures of the world. Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-43456-8 .
  • Art history. An introduction. Reimer, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-496-00825-3 (7th, revised and expanded edition 2008).

Articles (selection)

  • On the iconology of the gaze. In: Christoph Wulf , Jörg Zirfas (Ed.): Iconology of the Performative. Fink, Munich 2005, pp. 50-58.
  • Down with the pictures. All power the signs. From the prehistory of semiotics. In: Stefan Majetschak (ed.): Bild -zeichen . Perspectives of a Science from the Image. Munich 2005, pp. 31-48.
  • The violence of images and the real. In: Helga Finter (Ed.): The real and the (new) images. Thinking or Terror of Images. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al., Pp. 69-77.
  • Gary Hill and the Alphabet of Images . In: Marco Gutjahr, Maria Jarmer (Ed.): From similarity to similarity. Maurice Blanchot and the passion of the picture , Turia + Kant, Vienna, Berlin 2016, pp. 329–353.

literature

  • Giulio Angioni : Fare, dire, sentire. L'identico e il diverso nelle culture. Il maestrale, Nuoro 2011, ISBN 978-88-642-9020-1 , pp. 336-358.
  • Samuel Strehle: Hans Belting. "Image anthropology" as a cultural theory of images. In: Stephan Moebius , Dirk Quadflieg (Ed.): Culture. Present theories. 2nd, expanded and updated edition. VS, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-16775-6 , pp. 507-518.
  • Luca Vargiu: Prima dell'età dell'arte. Hans Belting e l'immagine medievale. Centro internazionale per gli Studi di Estetica, Palermo 2007.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ Membership directory: Hans Belting. Academia Europaea, accessed June 18, 2017 .
  2. ^ Ceremonial opening of the Hans Belting Library (Czech)
  3. ↑ HW van Os : Review of the image and its audience in the Middle Ages. In: Simiolus. Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art. Vol. 14, 1984, No. 3/4, pp. 225-227 ( JSTOR ).
  4. ↑ https://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/hans-belting/florenz-und-bagdad.html
personal data
SURNAME Belting, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art scholar and media theorist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Andernach , Germany