Heinrich Klotz

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Heinrich Klotz (born March 20, 1935 in Worms ; † June 1, 1999 in Karlsruhe ) was a German art historian, architectural theorist and publicist.

Life

“ Protest !” - Advertisement against the demolition of the Villa Willmer monument and for a Lower Saxony Monument Protection Act ;
1970 in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung

Heinrich Klotz studied art history, archeology and philosophy in Frankfurt, Freiburg, Heidelberg and Göttingen. In 1963 he received his doctorate from Heinz Rudolf Rosemann in Göttingen with a thesis on The Eastern Building of the Collegiate Church in Wimpfen im Tal : on Erwin von Steinbach's early work . After receiving research grants at the Central Institute for Art History and at the Art History Institute in Florence, he completed his habilitation in Göttingen with a thesis on Brunelleschi's early works and the medieval tradition .

After visiting professorships in the USA, he was full professor at the Art History Institute at the University of Marburg from 1972 to 1989 .

From 1979 he built the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main as founding director . He became internationally known in particular with the exhibition “Revision of Modernism, Postmodern Architecture 1960–1980”. In 1988 he was appointed founding director of the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe and was also the first rector of the affiliated university for design . His aim was to enrich the traditional arts with the possibilities of modern media technologies. It should be taught, researched and presented in equal measure. In 1998 he gave up this post to devote himself to setting up the Museum of New Art Karlsruhe as a collector's museum.

Fonts

  • The east building of the collegiate church in Wimpfen im Tal: on the early work of Erwin von Steinbach . (Studies in Art History, Volume XXXIX). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1967
  • Brunelleschi's early works and the medieval tradition . Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1970
  • The roaring stags of architecture. Kitsch in modern architecture. CJ Bucher, Lucerne 1977, ISBN 3-7658-0255-7 .
  • Revision of modernity. Postmodern architecture 1960–1980. Exhibition catalog of the German Architecture Museum. Prestel, Munich 1984.
  • with Oswald Mathias Ungers : OM Ungers 1951–1984. Buildings and projects. Vieweg, 1985, ISBN 3-528-08688-2 .
  • Vision of modernity. The principle of construction. Exhibition catalog of the German Architecture Museum. Prestel, 1986, ISBN 3-7913-0755-X .
  • Chicago. Architecture 1872–1922. The Chicago skyscraper as a design problem. Exhibition catalog of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Munich 1987.
  • Modern and post-modern. Contemporary architecture 1960–1980. Vieweg, 1987, ISBN 3-528-28711-X .
  • 20th century architecture. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-608-76288-4 .
  • New York architecture 1970–1990. Prestel / Rizzoli, Munich / New York 1989, ISBN 3-7913-0923-4 .
  • History of the built environment. From the original hut to the skyscraper. Exhibition catalog of the German Architecture Museum. Prestel, Munich 1991.
  • with Andrea Gleiniger: The penchant for architecture in contemporary painting. Exhibition catalog of the German Architecture Museum. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-608-76274-4 .
  • 20th century art. Modern - post-modern - second modern. Beck, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-406-38203-7 .
  • A new university (= publication series of the State University for Design Karlsruhe. Volume 5). Cantz, Stuttgart 1995.
  • (Ed.) The Second Modern. A diagnosis of contemporary art. Munich 1996.
  • Architecture. Texts on the story. Theory and Critique of Building ( Edition ZKM ). Ostfildern-Ruit 1996
  • Paul Schneider from Esleben. Designs and constructions. Hatje, 1996.
  • The discovery of Catal Höyük. The archaeological find of the century. Munich 1997.
  • The style of the new. The European renaissance. Stuttgart 1997.
  • Passed on. Memories. DuMont, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-7701-5081-3 .
  • Architecture of the Second Modern Age: An Essay Announcing the New. Heinrich Klotz, Stuttgart 1999.
  • with Steffen Lehmann and Wolf D. Prix : The Tower of Babel: Architecture for the Third Millennium. An architecture discussion. Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-931321-32-0 .
  • Second modern architecture. DVA, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-421-03231-9 .
  • Modern times and modern times 1750–2000 (= history of German art. Volume 3). Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-44244-7 .

Exhibitions

Literature (selection)

  • Oliver Elser (editor-in-chief): The Klotz-Tapes. The making of postmodernism , ARCH + Heft 216, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-931435-28-8
  • Judith Rottenburg, Henning Arnecke (Hrsg.): Re-Visions of Modernity. Encounters with Heinrich Klotz , Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-7705-4993-1

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Individual evidence


personal data
SURNAME Klotz, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architectural theorist
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1999
Place of death Karlsruhe