Hellmut Hager

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Hellmut Wilhelm Hager (born March 27, 1926 in Berlin ; † November 10, 2015 in State College (Pennsylvania) ) was a German art historian .

Hager received his doctorate in 1959 from the University of Bonn with a thesis on The Beginnings of the Italian Altarpiece . From 1959 to 1963 he was an assistant at the Bibliotheca Hertziana , the scientific library for Italian art in Rome . In 1968 he taught for one semester at Pennsylvania State University , University Park. In 1971 he became professor of art history there and since 1972 headed the faculty of art history. In 1978 he was appointed a member of Penn State's Institute for the Arts and Humanities . In 1993 he became a member of the Accademia di San Luca and in 1994 he was awarded the title of Evan Pugh Professor of the University. In 1996 he stepped down from the head of the faculty, and in 2001 he retired.

Hager taught German and Italian architecture of the Baroque and Rococo . A special focus of his research was on the work of the Italian architect Carlo Fontana . Hager initiated the series of publications Papers in Art History from The Pennsylvania State University .

Fonts

  • with Helga Freifrau von Heintze : Athene-Minerva. Your image through the ages. In: Yearbook // Max Planck Society. No. 1 1961.
  • The beginnings of the Italian altarpiece. Investigations into the history of the origins of the Tuscan high altar retable. Schroll, Munich 1962.
  • On the planning and construction history of the twin churches on the Piazza del Popolo. S. Maria di Monte Santo and S. Maria dei Miracoli in Rome. In: Roman yearbook for art history. 1967.
  • and Carlo Picchio: Filippo Juvarra. E il concorso di modelli del 1715 bandito da Clemente XI per la nuova sacrestica di S. Pietro. Da Luca, Roma 1970.
  • Il modello di Ludovico Rusconi Sassi del concorso per la facciata di S. Giovanni in Laterano. In: Commentarii; anno XXII, Gennio-Marzo 1971, fasc. I. 1971.
  • Le Facciate dei SS. Faustion e Giovita e di S. Biagio in Campitelli a Roma. A Proposito di due opere Giovanili di Carlo Fontana. In: Commentari; anno XXIII, Luglio-Settembre 1972, fascicolo III. 1972.
  • Carlo Fontana's project for a church in honor of the 'Ecclesia Triumphans' in the Colosseum, Rome. In: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes / ed. EH Gombrich [et al.]. 1973.
  • La Facciata di San Marcello al Corso. In: Commentari; 24, Fas. 1-2; gennaio-giugno 1973. 1973.
  • Carlo Fontana and the Jesuit Sanctuary at Loyola. In: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes / ed. EH Gombrich [et al.]. 1974.
  • with Carlo Picchio and Anthony Blunt: L'intervento di Carlo Fontana per le chiese dei monasteri di Santa Marta e Santa Margherita in Trastevere. de Luca, Roma 1974.
  • The dome of the cathedral in Montefiascone. On a Borrominesque experiment by Carlo Fontana. In: Römisches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte / ed. by Leo Bruhns. 1975.
  • with Allan Braham: Carlo Fontana. The drawings at Windsor Castle. Zwemmer, London 1977, ISBN 0-302-02780-7 .
  • Balthasar Neumann's Schönborn chapel at Würzburg cathedral and its Berninesque prototype. , London 1983.
  • and Susan Scott Munshower (Eds.): Projects and monuments in the period of the Roman baroque. Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, Pa. 1984, ISBN 0-915773-00-7 .
  • and Susan Scott Munshower (eds.): Light on the eternal city. Observations and discoveries in the art and architecture of Rome. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. 1987, ISBN 0-915773-01-5 .
  • with José Ramón Eguillor Muniozguren and Rafael María de Hornedo: Loiola. Historia eta arkitektura. Etor; Gipuzkoako Foru Aldundia, Donostia 1991, ISBN 978-84-85527-88-5 .
  • Bernini, Carlo Fontana e la fortuna del 'terzo braccio' del colonnato di piazza San Pietro in Vaticano. In: Quaderni dell'Istituto di Storia dell'Architettura / Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento di Storia dell'Architettura, Restauro e Conservazione dei Beni Architettonici. 1997.
  • Carlo Fontana: L'Anfiteatro Flavio. Edizione anastatica del manoscritto nel Museo di Roma. ed. by Hellmut Hager, Gangemi, Roma 2002, ISBN 88-492-0135-4 .
  • Il concepimento della biblioteca casanatense e la storia della costruzione. In: Palladio. 2011.

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personal data
SURNAME Hager, Hellmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hager, Hellmut W .; Hager, Hellmut Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 2015
Place of death State College (Pennsylvania)